Karl F. Lamers

Karl F. Lamers    ( politician)
Born	11. November 1935  Königswinter,  Germany
Died	27 August 2022 (Age 86)
Nationality	German
Alma mater	•  University of Bonn •  University of Cologne
Spouse	Monika Lamers
Party	CDU
German politician who attended Bilderberg/1995. In 1994, together with Wolfgang Schäuble, he wrote a concept paper on European policy, which attracted a lot of attention due to the idea of what they called a "core Europe". Member of Europa-Union Deutschland which advocates a federal Europe .  Member of the Bundestag  In office 1980 - 2002 Preceded by Joachim Angermeyer, Martin Bangemann, Richard Jaeger, Kurt Georg Kiesinger

Not to be confused with fellow transatlantic politician Karl A. Lamers

Karl Franz Lamers was a German politician. He attended Bilderberg/1995 when foreign policy spokesman for the CDU]. In 1994, together with Wolfgang Schäuble, he wrote a concept paper on European policy, which attracted a lot of attention due to the idea of what they called a "core Europe". Lamers was a member of the Europa-Union Deutschland, which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.

Education

Lamers' father died in the Second World War. After attending school in Bad Godesberg (Abitur 1958), Karl Lamers studied law and political science in Bonn and Cologne and passed the first state examination in law in [[1964]. From 1966 to 1980 he was head of the Karl Arnold Foundation, a political academy in Bonn-Bad Godesberg.

Career

In 1955, Lamers joined the CDU. From 1968 to 1971 he was the state chairman of the youth division Junge Union in the Rhineland. Since 1971 he was a member of the state executive Committee of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia, from 1975 to 1981 as deputy state chairman.

Lamers was a member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 2002. From 1990 to 2002, he was the foreign policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group in the Bundestag and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He was Vice-President of the European People's Party (EPP) from 2000 to 2002.

His advocacy in the 1970s for a conciliation with East Germany and sympathy for Willy Brandt earned Lamers the nickname "Red Karl".

In 1994, together with Wolfgang Schäuble, he wrote a concept paper on European policy, which attracted a lot of attention due to the idea of what they called a "core Europe". The core Europe, consisting of Germany, France, and the Benelux countries would join together to form a new commonwealth with its own parliament and a "democratically" elected government, while the remaining nations form a group orbiting the core, each positioned at varying distances from it

Lamers also represented this concept at the conference of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on March 19, 2007 in Berlin, "Europe's Foreign and Security Policy in the 21st Century", which was organized as a birthday present for the SPD strategist Egon Bahr on his 85th birthday, which was celebrated on this day.

Lamers was a member of the Europa-Union Deutschland, which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.

Karl Lamers was married to the writer Monika Lamers and had a son.

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Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1995	8 June 1995	11 June 1995	Greece Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel Vouliagmeni	The 43rd Bilderberg. Held at the Burgenstock Hotel in Burgenstock, Switzerland.

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