Carl Otto Lenz
Carl Otto Lenz ( born June 5, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer, politician of the CDU and former Advocate General at the European Court.
Life
Lenz was the son of the lawyer Dr. Otto Lenz (State Secretary of the Federal Chancellery from 1951 to 1953, Member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1957 ) and wife Marie Liese Pohl born. The father had refused to become a judge under the Nazis, and had connections to the resistance groups of 20 July 1944. 1948 made Lenz graduated from high school in Munich. He studied in the years 1949-1953 law and political science at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, the University of Fribourg and the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. In Freiburg he became a member of the Catholic Student Association KDSt.V. Arminia Freiburg im Breisgau in the CV. Later studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and Harvard University followed in Cambridge (Massachusetts ). In 1961 he received his doctorate at the University of Bonn with the work on the extension institutions of the U.S. President on matters of general policy.
In 1959 he became Secretary General of the Christian- Democratic Group in the European Parliament in Luxembourg; 1965 to 1984 he was a member of the German Bundestag. In 1965 he was elected to succeed died the previous year Heinrich von Brentano directly in the Bundestag constituency mountain road, just as in 1976 and 1983. For many years he was a member of the Legal Committee, its chairman from 1969 until 1980. During the same period he was one of the Conciliation Committee between the Bundestag and Bundesrat of. In 1983 he became chairman of the European Commission of the Bundestag. Since 1969, Lenz was a member of the electoral committee of the Bundestag for the election of judges of the Constitutional Court.
Lenz was involved in particular for the German - French friendship, was a member of the German - French Parliamentary Friendship Group and its Chairman from 1969 to 1983 and coordinator for German -French cooperation 1982-1984.
Among many other intra - and extra-parliamentary positions, he was 1984-1997 Advocate General at the European Court. During this time he has written about 400 Opinion of the Court of Justice of the EC. Among other things, it followed the European Court of Justice in the Bosman ruling. In addition, Lenz is editor of a handbook and a comment, and author of numerous works in particular to the EC and EU law.
Since 1998 he has worked as a lawyer in Frankfurt and Brussels. Since 2007 he has been Chairman of the Board of the European Commission.
Awards and honors
Writings
- " Europe of nations " - "Fatherland Europe ", in " commitment to Europe ", edited by Fritz castle Bacher, Herder Verlag, Freiburg, 1963, ASIN: B0000BGBWG
- The cooperation of the European courts and national courts. Workshop from 21 to 23 October 1988 Bad Kreuznach, CF Müller, Heidelberg, 1989, ISBN 3811437895
- Emergency Constitution of the Basic Law, Commentary, Athenaeum Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1971, ASIN: B0000BSC3L
- Emergency Constitution of the Basic Law, Commentary, Cornelsen / Scriptor, Berlin 1991 ( reprint ), ISBN 358920365X
- EC manual right in the Internal Market (Editor ), Manual, Verlag New Economic Letters, Herne / Berlin, 2nd edition 1994, ISBN 3482435529
- The EC Treaty ( Editor), Comment, Federal Gazette Cologne 1994, ISBN 3887845099
- The EC Treaty ( Editor), Comment, Federal Gazette Cologne, 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3887848942
- EU and EC Treaties (Editor together with Klaus -Dieter Borchardt ), Comment, Federal Gazette Cologne, 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 3898172740
- EU and EC Treaties (Editor together with Klaus -Dieter Borchardt ), Comment, Federal Gazette Cologne, 4th edition 2006, ISBN 9783898175067
- EU treaties (Editor together with Klaus -Dieter Borchardt ), Comment, Federal Gazette Cologne, 5th edition 2010, ISBN 9783898177023