Andreas Otto (politician)
Andreas Otto (born February 27, 1962 in Templin ) is a German politician of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . Since 2006 he has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . His main political topics are building and housing policy, joint state planning for Berlin-Brandenburg and Europe. He is also concerned with coming to terms with the SED dictatorship.
Life and work
Otto grew up with two siblings in a Christian home in the Uckermark . He spent his school days and youth in Bernau near Berlin . During this time he was neither a pioneer nor a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). After completing the 10th grade, he trained as an electrician in the Schönow cable factory, where he practiced this profession until he was called up by the National People's Army (NVA). He decided to do unarmed military service as a construction soldier and did this in 1983/1984.
Otto then moved to East Berlin and began studying electrical engineering at the technical college for mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. After graduating, he worked at VEB Messelektronik Berlin from 1988 until the plant was closed in 1991. After a short period of unemployment and a postgraduate degree in computer science at the University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Economics in Berlin to become a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) he became managing director of the Robert Havemann Society Berlin in 1993 , which is dedicated to coming to terms with the history of the GDR and the GDR opposition . The work of his team was recognized in 2005 with the Grimme Online Award for the Internet site "Jugendopposition.de". Otto is the father of two grown children.
politics
Before the fall of the wall , Otto was involved in the Protestant church. In 1987 he took part in the protests against the attack on the environmental library and volunteered in church youth work. In 1989 he took part in the peaceful revolution and large demonstrations in Berlin.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Otto decided, following his sentiments as an environmentalist, to join the GDR Green Party . He ran in the first free municipal election in the GDR in 1990 for the Prenzlauer Berg district assembly (later the district assembly ). From then until 2006 he was an uninterrupted elector for the Greens (from the district merger in 1999 in the Pankow district council) and from 1992 to 2006 its parliamentary group chairman. During this time, the focus of his political work was on the urban renewal of Prenzlauer Berg, the identification of redevelopment areas, the modernization of living space and the development of a contemporary infrastructure.
In 2006 Otto was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives with 34.3% of the first votes in the constituency Pankow 6 . He was the first East German to join a state parliament for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen via a direct mandate. In his first legislative period he was the parliamentary group's spokesman for building and housing policy. He was also a member of the committees of inquiry into the Spreedreieck building scandal and the state-owned housing association Howoge . From 2009 he was a member of the Main Committee of the House of Representatives and budget spokesman for his group.
In 2011 Otto was directly re-elected in his constituency with 35.1%. He was again spokesman for building and housing policy for his parliamentary group and was elected as the new chairman of the committee for building, housing and transport. He also became a member of the Committee on European and Federal Affairs, Media.
Otto became known in the national press through his work in the investigative committee for BER Airport . There he appears as a critic of the governing mayor and former supervisory board member Klaus Wowereit .
November 6, 2012 Otto was the district association Pankow as a direct candidate for the general election in 2013 in the federal election district Berlin-Pankow set up. He applied with the subjects of building, living, fair rents and infrastructure. The members of the Berlin regional association of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen also elected him to the promising fourth place on the state list, which, according to the election results of the Greens, was not enough for entry into the Bundestag.
In 2016 Otto won the Prenzlauer Berg Nordwest direct constituency for the third time with 36.5%. In his spokesman function, he is currently responsible for building policy and for Berlin-Brandenburg. He is a member of the Committee for Urban Development and Housing and Chairman of the Committee for European and Federal Affairs, Media.
Web links
- Website of Andreas Otto
- Biography on the website of the Berlin House of Representatives for the 18th electoral term
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grimme Online Award 2005, ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 15, 2014
- ↑ Andreas Otto ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from abhabenhaus-berlin.de, accessed on January 15, 2014
- ^ Report to the BER investigation committee "Uncontrolled into chaos". Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in the House of Representatives, accessed on June 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Wowereit does not want to have known anything. Zeit-online from May 24, 2013, accessed on January 15, 2014
- ↑ "It was the apprentice." Klaus Wowereit rejects responsibility for the failure of the BER opening. Neues Deutschland from May 25, 2013, accessed on January 15, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otto, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Templin |