Norbert Lammert
| Norbert Lammert | |
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Norbert Lammert, 2014
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| President of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 18 October 2005 |
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| President |
Horst Köhler Christian Wulff Joachim Gauck |
| Preceded by | Wolfgang Thierse |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 1980 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 November 1948 Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Political party | CDU |
| Spouse(s) | Gertrud |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater |
Ruhr University Bochum Oxford University |
| Profession | Sociologist |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Signature |  |
| Website | www |
Norbert Lammert (born 16 November 1948) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He has been the 12th President of the Bundestag since 2005.
The son of a baker, Lammert attended gymnasium in Bochum where he studied classics. He obtained his abitur in 1967. He carried out military service in the Bundeswehr from 1967 to 1969. Following his military service he went on to the University of Bochum, which included a period abroad at the University of Oxford, where he studied political science and modern history. He went on and obtained his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. soc.) from the University of Bochum in 1975.
Having joined the CDU in 1966, he was deputy chairman of the Bochum branch of the CDU. From 1978–1984, he was deputy leader of a part (Westfalen-Lippe) of the North Rhine-Westphalian branch of the Junge Union, the CDU youth organization. In the 1980 national elections, he was elected to the Bundestag and has kept his mandate continuously until today. During his tenure in the Bundestag he served (as usual for all MdBs) on several committees.
Following the 2005 federal elections in which the CDU became the strongest party and formed a grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Lammert was elected by the Bundestag on 18 October 2005 to replace Wolfgang Thierse of the SPD as its President. Lammert received 564 of 607 votes cast, including most of the SPD's votes. He was reelected to this post by the 17th Bundestag after the 2009 federal election with a similarly good result. In his capacity as president, he chairs the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation.
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