Georg Otto (politician)

Georg Otto (born August 6, 1928 in Großenhain ) is a retired high school teacher from Eberholzen , who was a co-founder of the political party Die Grünen . He also founded the quarterly magazine "Alternatives". Otto is still the spokesman for the liberal-social wing of the Greens and chairman of the “Aktion Third Way” (A3W).

Life

Originally coming from the socially and ecologically oriented "Bund Freisocial Life Reformers", Georg Otto ran for the Free Social Union for the Bundestag in 1969 . In 1971 he became chairman of the Lower Saxony regional association of the World Association for the Protection of Life .

After a brief SPD membership, Otto became chairman of the Green List Environmental Protection (GLU) in Lower Saxony at a GLU state delegate meeting in July 1978 , which was one of the first state parties on the Green List to win a 3.86 percent in the Lower Saxony state election in June 1978 Had achieved respectable success.

Otto was previously the spokesman for the regional Green Environmental Protection List , which emerged from the liberal-social working group Third Way in Hildesheim and which was the first green environmental protection list in the Lower Saxony municipal and district council elections in the Hildesheim district in 1976 and won a mandate. In 1980 Otto was a co-founder of the Federal Green Party and head of organization of the first federal executive.

At the end of 1999 Otto founded the magazine "Alternatives for an ecological, social, grassroots-democratic and non-violent society", in which various economic theoretical models such as B. be presented by Silvio Gesell . He was also involved in the development of the “Alternative Third Way - A3W” as an extra-parliamentary movement, from which individual applicants such as Frank Schepke ran for the first time in the 2009 Bundestag election.

Otto worked closely with Tristan Abromeit , who was also one of the founders of the Greens and who advocated a third way between communism and capitalism . At the basic program congress of the Greens in March 1980 in Saarbrücken , Otto and Abromeit were unable to assert their position.

Publications

• Ten years of green politics. Ways out of the Greens ' crisis , Eberholzen 1988.
• Ecology and Economy , Rhade 1991, Anders-Leben-Verlag, ISBN 3-927501-04-2 .
• Why Marxism had to fail. Contradictions between the theory of surplus value - the basis of real socialist attempts - and Marx's theory of money - the basis of socialism in freedom? , Rhade 1991, Anders-Leben-Verlag, ISBN 3-927501-03-4 .
• Does the “third way” of the PDS lead to democratic socialism or to social capitalism? , Eberholzen 1995 ( PDF ).

literature

• Richard Stöss: Die Freisoziale Union , in political parties handbook , Opladen 1984, pp. 1397–1423 (here p. 1412 fn. 45, short biography)

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Otto in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography Always on the third path changed by the Saxon newspaper (PDF file; 68 kB)
• Alternatives magazine has a website
• The third way - programmatic contribution by Tristan Abromeit and Georg Otto to the program congress of the Greens in March 1980 (PDF; 416 kB)