Prof Dr Guenter Krings LL.M. (Temple)

Profession: lawyer, specialist in public and constitutional law

Position in the German Bundestag

Spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group on Legal Affairs

Chairman of the CDU North Rhine-Westfalia state faction in the German Bundestag

Member of the Bundestag since the 15th electoral term (2002 to present)

Political Career

Since 2021            Spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group on Legal Affairs

Since 2017            Chairman of the CDU North Rhine-Westfalia state faction in the German Bundestag

Since 2014           Chairman of the Niederrhein district branch of the CDU

2013 – 2021          Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior (Homeland Security)

2011 – 2019          Vice chairman of the North-Rhine/Westphalia’s Association of the Small and Medium Enterprises and Business Organization of the CDU

2010 – 2021          Chairman of the Mönchengladbach county branch of the CDU

Since 2009           Chairman of the National Association of christian-democratic lawyers (BACDJ)

2009-2013            Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group

2008-2009            Legal Advisor of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group

2006-2009            Chairman of the Sustainable Development Committee of the German Bundestag

2002-2005            Chairman of the Young Group of the CDU/CSU caucus (members of the Parliament under 35)

2002                    first elected to the German Bundestag

1992 – 2003          Chairman of the Niederrhein district branch of the Youth Organization of the CDU

Since 1989            Member of the Cultural Affairs Committee and the Personnel Committee of Mönchengladbach town council

1989 – 1994          Chairman of the Wickrath branch of the Youth Organization of the CDU

Since 1985           Member of the CDU

Other Positions

Since 2007           Chairman of the German Society on Legislation (DGG)

Since 2004            Board of the German American Lawyers Association (DAJV)

Employment / Academic positions

Since 2010           Honorary Professor on Public and Constitutional Law at Cologne University (law faculty)

Since 2004           Temporary Lecturer on Public and Constitutional Law at Cologne University (law faculty)

Since 1998           registered lawyer at the Mönchengladbach Regional Court; 2013-2021 admission as lawyer was suspended

2001 – 2002          North-Rhine Westphalia University of Applied Administrative Sciences, (training of police officers)

1997 – 2002          Cologne School of Journalism (Institute of Journalism), Lecturer on public law

1998 to 2002        Academic employee at the Constitutional Law Institute of the University of  

Cologne (position comparable to a ‚junior assistant professor’)

1994/1998            Kienbaum Consultants, “Public Sector”, Düsseldorf

University Studies

2002                     Completed PhD with thesis entitled “Grund und Grenzen grundrechtlicher Schutzansprüche” (basis and limits of claims to a constitutional duty to protect)

1995 – 1997          Period of practical legal training

Second state examination in law

1994 – 1995         Studied US law and international law at Temple University, School of Law, Philadelphia (USA)

Master of Laws (LLM) (Fulbright scholarship)

1989 -1994           Studied law at Cologne University; Scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Completed first state examination in law (Cologne Higher Regional Court) Studied history at Cologne University (Stage I Studies)