Karl-Georg Wellmann (born 18 November 1952) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2001 to 2005, he was member of the Abgeordnetenhaus, the state parliament of Berlin. Between 2005 and 2017, he was an MP of the German

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Education and early career

Wellmann was born in

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. After earning a high school diploma, Wellmann studied business administration and law at

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public university, public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first ...

and the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

. In 1978, he completed the first, and, after being a

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, in 1980 the second state examination in Berlin. He then worked as a lawyer. From 1981 to 1985, he was personal advisor of Senator Hanna-Renate Laurien, State Minister for Science and Research, in the government of Governing Mayor of West Berlin

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. He later worked for the State Ministry for Health and Social Affairs. Since 1985, he has been a lawyer again, since 1997 a notary.

Political career

In 2001, Wellmann was elected MP of the State Parliament of Berlin. From 2005 on, Wellmann was a member of the German

; he won the seat for

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directly and was re-elected there in 2009 and 2013. In parliament, Wellmann was member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2009. In addition to his committee assignment, he served as chairman of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentary Friendship Group. He was also a member of the German-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-

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Parliamentary Friendship Group. A member of the German delegation to the

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(PACE), he also served on the Sub-Committee on relations with the

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; , OCDE) is an international organization, intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and international trade, wor ...

(OECD) and the

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(EBRD). Wellmann also was an

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election monitor in Ukraine. In May 2015, Russia refused his entry at Moscow airport until the year of 2019, though he had been officially invited by the Foreign Committee of the Russian

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. This was strongly criticized by the German government.

Other activities

* German-Ukrainian Forum, Deputy Chairman *

International Bar Association The International Bar Association (IBA), founded in 1947, is a bar association of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. The IBA in 2018 had a membership of more than 80,000 individual lawyers and 190 bar associati ...

(IBA), MemberKarl-Georg Wellmann
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek. *

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(AMU), Member (2015) * Transatlantic Leadership Academy (TLA), Member of the Board (2005–2009) * United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN), Member of the Board (2005–2007)

References

External links

Official website
of Karl-Georg Wellmann
Karl-Georg Wellmann
at the German

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wellmann, Karl-Georg 1952 births Living people Members of the Bundestag for Berlin Members of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin Technische Universität Berlin alumni Free University of Berlin alumni Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017 Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013 Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009 Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany