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Lenz during a Bundestag committee hearing in 1973

Carl Otto Lenz (born 5 June 1930) is a German lawyer, member of the German Bundestag (1965–1984) for the CDU and Advocate General at the European Court of Justice (1984–1997).

Biography

Lenz on a 1965 election poster

Born in Berlin, Carl Otto Lenz is the son of the lawyer Otto Lenz (Secretary of the Federal Chancellery 1951–1953, member of the German Bundestag 1953–1957) and Marie Liese Pohl. In 1948, he graduated from high school in Munich. From 1949 to 1953, he studied law and political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and the University of Bonn. In Freiburg, he was a member of the Catholic Student Fraternity KDSt.V. Arminia Freiburg im Breisgau im CV. Lenz later studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, the College of Administrative Sciences Speyer and Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts). From 1961, he taught at the University of Bonn.

In 1959, he became Secretary of the Christian Democratic Group of the European Parliament in Luxembourg; From 1965 to 1984 he was a member of the German Bundestag, representing Bergstraße. For many years he was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee, and he was its chairman from 1969 to 1980.

Lenz is especially committed to Franco-German friendship; he was a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Group and its chairman from 1969 to 1983.

From 1984 to 1997, Lenz was Advocate General at the European Court of Justice. During this time, he drafted about 400 submissions to the Court of Justice. Lenz is also editor of a handbook and the author of numerous works concerning EC law.

Since 1998, he has been a lawyer in Frankfurt and Brussels.

Awards and honors

  • 1976: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1980: Officer of the Legion of Honor
  • 1983: Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit of the French Republic
  • 1987: Bearer of the Hans-Dahs Medal of the German Bar Association
  • 1990: Honorary Professor of the Department of European Law at the University of the Saarland
  • 1998: Bearer of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

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Members of the 5th Bundestag (1965–1969)
President: Eugen Gerstenmaier (CDU) until 31 January 1969; Kai-Uwe von Hassel (CDU) from 5 February 1969
CDU/CSU
CDU and CSU
Speaker: Rainer Barzel
SPD
SPD
Speaker: Fritz Erler until 22 February 1967; Helmut Schmidt from 14 March 1967
FDP
FDP
Speaker: Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm until 23 January 1968; Wolfgang Mischnick from 23 January 1968
Members of the 7th Bundestag (1972–1976)
President: Annemarie Renger (SPD)
SPD
SPD
Speaker: Herbert Wehner
CDU/CSU
CDU and CSU
Speaker: Rainer Barzel until 9 May 1973; Karl Carstens from 17 May 1973
FDP
FDP
Speaker: Wolfgang Mischnick
OTHER
Independent
Members of the 10th Bundestag (1983–1987)
President: Rainer Barzel until 25 October 1984; Philipp Jenninger from 5 November 1984 (CDU)
CDU/CSU
CDU and CSU
Speaker: Alfred Dregger
SPD
SPD
Speaker: Hans-Jochen Vogel
FDP
FDP
Speaker: Wolfgang Mischnick
GRÜNE
GRUENE
Speaker: Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf, Petra Kelly, Otto Schily until 3 April 1984; Annemarie Borgmann, Waltraud Schoppe, Antje Vollmer until 30./31. January 1985; Sabine Bard, Hannegret Hönes, Christian Schmidt until 1 February 1986; Annemarie Borgmann, Hannegret Hönes, Ludger Volmer until 18 July 1986); Willi Hoss (8 September 1986)
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