Education
After completing his Abitur in 1969, Lamers studied law at the University of Münster.
politician member of the German Bundestag
After completing his Abitur in 1969, Lamers studied law at the University of Münster.
From 2010 to 2012 he was the President of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly. He passed his First State Examination in Münster and obtained a doctorate in law in 1976, with a dissertation called "Representation and integration of foreign nationals in the Federal Republic of Germany with special regard to suffrage – also a comparative study about local election rights in the member states of the European Communities". Later on he became a senior Beamter at the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, serving as the Head of the Office of the President of the Landtag.
Lamers is registered as practising lawyer in Heidelberg.
From 1981 to 1986 he acted as Deputy State Chairman of the Junge Union Baden-Württemberg under its State Chairman Günther Oettinger, who later became Minister-President of the state of Baden-Württemberg and is currently serving as European Commissioner for Energy. In 1994, Lamers got elected to the Bundestag for the first time by directly winning the Heidelberg constituency.
Lamers was elected Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee of the Bundestag in 2005 and is still holding this office. Lamers also acts as President of the Atlantic Treaty Association since 2008, succeeding Robert East. Hunter, who held the office from 2003 to 2008.
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Lamers became a member of the Christian Democratic Union and its youth division, the Junge Union (JU), in 1975. Since 2003, Lamers is Honorary Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union division of Heidelberg after being its Chairman from 1985 to 2003 and a member of the Municipal Council of Heidelberg 1987 to 1995. He is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly since 1998 and was elected its President in Warsaw on 16 November 2010.