CURRICULUM VITAE

• Born on February 12, 1951, in Duisburg-Hamborn
• Obtained Abitur (higher-education entrance qualification) in 1969
• Studied law at the Westphalian Wilhelm University in Muenster
• Passed 1st state examination in law in Muenster
• Obtained doctorate in law
• Passed 2nd state examination in law in Stuttgart
• Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg
• Senior civil servant (Ministerial Counsellor) in the Parliament of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg:
• Head of the office of the President of the Parliament of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Practising lawyer since 2000
• Member of the German Parliament since 1994
• Honoured with the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, March 2009
• Honoured with the Grand Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania, July 2011
• Awarded with the title of “Doctor Honoris Causa” from the Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius/Lithuania in November 2011
• Honoured with the “Order of Honour” of Georgia, March 2014
• Honoured with the “Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary”, May 2015
• Awarded with the title of “Professor Honoris Causa” from the Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius/Lithuania in September 2016
• Appointment as Knight of the French Legion of Honour in October 2016
• Founding of the Dr. Karl A. Lamers Peace Foundation in December 2018

GERMAN PARLIAMENT

• Member of the German Parliament since 1994 (Constituency: Heidelberg/Weinheim)
• Member of the Defence Committee since 1994
• Member of the SME Circle in the German Parliament since 1994
• Chairman of the Group of Rapporteurs for Future Air Defence of the Defence Committee, 1995 – 1998
• Substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs since 1998
• Chairman of the Defence Committee’s Subcommittee on the Development of Internal Leadership,  2003 – 2007
• Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee since November 2006

NATO PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

• Member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) since 1998
• Rapporteur of the Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Relations, 1999 – 2003
• Head of the CDU/CSU Delegation since 2003
• Deputy Chairman of the Political Committee, 2003 – 2004
• Chairman of the Sub-Committee on NATO-Partnerships, 2004 – 2008
• Chairman of the Political Group of Conservatives, Christian Democrats and Associates in the NATO PA since May 2005
• Head of the German Delegation since May 2006
• Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, 2006 – 2008
• Chairman of the Political Committee of the NATO PA, 2008 – 2010
• President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, 2010 – 2012
• Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, 2012-2014
• Chairman of the Sub-Committee on NATO-Partnerships, 2014 – 2017
• Chairman of the Working Group on Education and Communication about NATO 2017 – 2019
• Member of the Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council (UNIC) since November 2017
• Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Relations since November 2017
• Acting Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since February 2020
• Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since May 2020

HONORARY POSTS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Vice-President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), 2017 – 2020
• President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), 2008-2014
• Vice-President of the German Atlantic Association
• President of the American-European Friendship Club Heidelberg, 2003 – 2014
• Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London
• Member of the board of trustees of the Heidelberg Surgery Foundation
• Member of the board of the German Foundation for Peace Research, 2008 – 2018
• Member of the advisory board of the Catholic Peace Foundation
• Member of the Heidelberg-Palatina Lions Club

PARTY POSTS

• Member of the Young Union (youth section of the CDU/CSU), 1975 – 1986
• Deputy Chairman of the Baden-Wuerttemberg branch of the Young Union, 1981 – 1986
• Deputy Chairman of the North Baden district branch of the Small and Medium Enterprises and Business Organisation of the CDU, 1983 – 1986
• Member of Heidelberg City Council, 1987 – 1996
• Chairman of the Heidelberg county branch of the CDU, 1985 – 2003, Honorary Chairman since 2003
• Chairman of the Committee on Foreign, European and Development Policy of the Baden-Wuerttemberg branch of the CDU until 2002