1. Norbert Lammert was born on 16 November 1948 and is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union.
19 Facts About Norbert Lammert
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Norbert Lammert served as the 12th president of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2017.
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The son of a baker, Lammert attended gymnasium in Bochum where he studied classics.
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Norbert Lammert carried out military service in the Bundeswehr from 1967 to 1969.
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Norbert Lammert received 564 of 607 votes cast, including most of the SPD's votes.
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Norbert Lammert was reelected to this post by the 17th Bundestag after the 2009 federal election with a similarly good result.
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When Federal President Joachim Gauck announced in June 2016 that he would not stand for reelection, Norbert Lammert was mentioned by German and international media as likely successor.
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In October 2016, Norbert Lammert announced that he would not stand in the 2017 federal elections and resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
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In 2018, Norbert Lammert took on the role of chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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Since 2022, following an appointment by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Norbert Lammert has been serving on a three-member panel to assess potential conflicts of interest, requiring senior German officials from the chancellor to deputy ministers to observe a cooling-off period if they want to quit the government for a job in business.
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Norbert Lammert became widely respected for upholding parliamentarians' rights, including leading the way in condemning the 1915 Armenian massacres as a Turkish genocide in 2016.
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Norbert Lammert has insisted that members of parliament be consulted fully on the bailout schemes for the euro zone debt crisis.
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Ahead of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's first official visit to Germany in June 2015, Norbert Lammert announced that he would not meet the former army chief, citing "an unbelievable number of death sentences".
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In February 2016, Norbert Lammert visited the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan to learn more about the plight of Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011.
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In June 2017, Norbert Lammert voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.
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In December 2010, Norbert Lammert imposed on the CDU a fine of 1.2 million euros for breaching party donation rules, for party funding violations in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the time of the regional election in 2006.
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In July 2013, an anonymous internet blogger, using the name of Robert Schmidt, accused Norbert Lammert of having plagiarized other works when writing his dissertation.
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Norbert Lammert rejected this reproach and asked the University of Bochum to check his dissertation; he published it via internet.
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Norbert Lammert is married to Gertrud and has four children.