Karl-Heinz Lambertz

Karl-Heinz Lambertz
Senator of the German-speaking Community in Belgium
Assumed office
19 September 2016
Preceded by Alexander Miesen
Minister-President of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
In office
6 July 1999 – 30 June 2014
Preceded by Joseph Maraite
Succeeded by Oliver Paasch
Personal details
Born (1952-06-04) 4 June 1952
Schoppen, Belgium
Political party Socialist Party
Alma mater Université catholique de Louvain

Karl-Heinz Lambertz (born 4 June 1952) is a Belgian politician holding a master's degree in Law (Université catholique de Louvain) with an additional specialisation in German Law (University of Heidelberg). He was the Minister-President of the German-speaking Community of Belgium for 15 years and became President of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community in 2014. Currently a member of the Belgian Senate representing the German-Speaking Community, he is also President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) having been elected on 12 July 2017 after serving a two and a half year term as its First Vice-President.

Born on 4 June 1952 in Schoppen, Karl-Heinz Lambertz' interest in politics came early in his career having served as President of the German-speaking Youth Council (1975-1980). After a number of functions linked to his academic background in law, he became a member of Parliament for the German-speaking Community in 1981.

Between 1990-1999 he held numerous Ministerial posts in the German-speaking Community Government before being elected as Minister-President (1999-2014). He was then President of Parliament until 2016 before taking post as senator.

Karl-Heinz Lambertz has been a CoR member since 2001 and was President of the CoR's PES Group (2011- 2015). Since 2000, he has been a member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in which he is currently Vice-President.

On 17 July 2008, he was one of three senior Belgian politicians commissioned by King Albert II to investigate ways of enabling constitutional reform talks in the light of the long-running Belgian constitutional crisis.[1]

Honours

  • 2014: Grand cross in the Order of the Crown.[2]

References

  1. ↑ BBC NEWS | Europe | Belgian PM's resignation rejected
  2. ↑ arrêtés royaux du 26 mai 2014


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