Gerold Otten

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Gerold Otten, 2019

Gerold Joachim Otten (born December 7, 1955 in Lübberstedt ) is a former professional soldier , retired sales manager and politician ( AfD ). He is a member of the 19th German Bundestag .

Life

Otten grew up in a hamlet near Bremen ; his father was the social democratic mayor of Lübberstedt for 25 years .

In July 1975 he joined the German Armed Forces and was trained as a weapons system officer (WSO) for Phantom and Tornado . Otten spent the last three years of his BO41 career (career officer with the special age limit of 41 years) at the multinational training center Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment on the base of RAF Cottesmore as a flight instructor for German, British and Italian crews on Tornado, after which he in March 1997 retired from the Bundeswehr with the rank of major . Otten then worked for the aerospace group DASA and was most recently Eurofighter Sales Director in its successor company, Airbus Defense and Space . He is Colonel of the Reserve at the Air Force Officer's School in Fürstenfeldbruck.

Otten lives in Putzbrunn , is divorced and has a grown son.

politics

In 1989 Otten became a member of the FDP . In 2013 he joined the AfD and was a co-founder of the Munich-Land district association. For the 2017 federal election , Otten ran as a direct candidate for the AfD in the Munich-Land federal constituency and entered the 19th German Bundestag at number 8 in the federal state list .

He sees his political priorities in the area of security policy , counter-terrorism and border protection . He also calls for diplomatic and economic pressure to be used against third countries such as Morocco and Tunisia if they do not take back rejected asylum seekers .

At the 94th (April 11, 2019), 101st (May 16, 2019) and 104th session of the German Bundestag (June 6, 2019), Otten failed with his candidacy for the post of Vice-President of the Bundestag . This makes him the third candidate in his group to fail in all three votes.

On May 7, 2020, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag .

Web links

Commons : Gerold Otten  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alternative for Germany (AfD): Gerold Otten. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Gerold Otten. xing.de, accessed on September 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c More security. sueddeutsche.de, September 11, 2017, accessed on September 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ . Candidate database Gerold Otten. tagesspiegel.de, accessed on September 29, 2017 .
  5. ^ Günter Hiel: Gerold Otten wants to join the Bundestag for AfD. merkur.de, January 30, 2017, accessed on September 29, 2017 .
  6. ^ Right to extreme in the Bundestag , Zeit Online from September 21, 2017; Retrieved October 25, 2017
  7. ^ [1] , n-tv.de: AfD-Politiker-Otten-fails-again-in-election-of-the-vice-president, May 16, 2019
  8. ↑ BT Drucksache 19/9252: nomination of the AfD parliamentary group , German Bundestag from April 10, 2019; accessed on April 11, 2019
  9. ↑ tagesschau.de: AfD candidate again fails in the election to the Bundestag vice. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ n-tv NEWS: AfD wants office of defense commissioner. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Otten, Gerold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otten, Gerold Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebberstedt