Norbert Lammert

Norbert Lammert
Official Bundestag photo, 2011
President of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 October 2005
Preceded by	Wolfgang Thierse
Personal details
Born	16 November 1948 Bochum, Allied-occupied Germany
Political party	CDU
Alma mater	Ruhr University Bochum Oxford University
Profession	Sociologist

Norbert Lammert (born 16 November 1948 in Bochum) is a German politician (CDU). He has been the President of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2005.

Early Life

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 where he studied political science and modern history. He went on to obtain his Ph.D from the University_of_Oxford in social_science.

Political Career

Having joined the CDU in 1966, he was deputy chairman of the Bochum branch of the CDU. After leading the North_Rhine-Westphalia branch of the Junge_Union (the youth organization of the CDU), he was elected to the Bundestag in 1980. During his tenure in the Bundestag he served on several committees.^[1]

Following the 2005 federal elections, Lammert was elected by the Bundestag on 18 October 2005 to replace Wolfgang Thierse (SPD). Lammert received 564 of 607 votes cast, including most of the SPD's votes.

Lammert is a Catholic.^[2] He is married and has four children.

Literature

Michael F. Feldkamp (ed.), Der Bundestagspräsident. Amt - Funktion - Person. 16. Wahlperiode, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-7892-8201-0

References

1. ^ Norbert Lammert profile on the Bundestag website
2. ^ "Lammert, Dr. Norbert". Deutscher Bundestag. http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/abgeordnete/bio/L/lammeno0.html. Retrieved 2010-04-23. 

External links

• Official biography at bundestag.de
• (German) Lammert's website

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Name	Lammert, Norbert
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Date of birth	16 November 1948
Place of birth	Bochum
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