Hans-Joachim Otto (politician)

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Hans-Joachim Otto in October 2010

Hans-Joachim Otto (born October 30, 1952 in Heidelberg ) is a German politician ( FDP ). From 2009 to 2013 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology and from 2005 to 2009 he was Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Media of the German Bundestag . From 2009 to December 2013 he was the maritime coordinator .

Life and work

After graduating from the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg in 1971 , Otto studied law and economics in Munich , Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main , which he completed in 1977 with the first state examination in law. He completed the subsequent legal clerkship in 1980 with the second state examination and then worked as a research assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Otto has been a partner in a law firm in Frankfurt am Main since 1984, and in the corporate law firm GSK Stockmann since 2016. In 2000 he was appointed notary .

Political party

Hans-Joachim Otto, at the beginning of the 80s as national chairman of the JuLis

Otto became a member of the FDP in 1977. He is one of the co-founders of the Young Liberals and was elected the first federal chairman at their 1st Federal Congress on November 1 and 2, 1980 in Bad Godesberg . Otto was JuLi federal chairman until 1983, when the Young Liberals were officially recognized as the new youth organization of the FDP instead of the Young Democrats . He belonged from 1982 to 1988, from 1990 to 1995 and has been a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP again since 2005. At the federal party conference in 1988 he should have been elected General Secretary of the FDP if Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer had been elected federal chairman. From 1987 to 2013 he was a member of the FDP state executive in Hesse . Since 1992 he has been chairman of the Federal Media Commission and the Federal Committee for Media, Internet and Digital Agenda of the FDP. From 1986 to 1990 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . In 2006, together with Liane Knüppel , Hartmut Knüppel , Daniel Bahr , Gisela Piltz , Joachim Stamp and Johannes Vogel, he founded the Netzwerk 80 eV association as an association of all federal board members and federal managing directors of the Young Liberals since 1980.

MP

Hans-Joachim Otto, who ran in the constituency of Frankfurt am Main III but was elected via the FDP state list, was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1983 to 1987 and was a member of the city ​​council of Frankfurt am Main from 1997 to 1998 . Otto was a member of the German Bundestag for the first time from 1990 to 1994 and again from 1998 to 2013 . From 1998 to 2005 he was spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group for culture and media. From November 2005 to 2009 he was chairman of the committee for culture and media of the German Bundestag. From 2009 to December 2013 he was the maritime coordinator ; his successor was Uwe Beckmeyer ( SPD ).

He always entered the Bundestag via the Hesse state list .

Hans-Joachim Otto worked with other members of the Bundestag, such as Heinrich Kolb , Peter Danckert and Friedrich Merz , against the disclosure of the amount of the additional income of the parliamentarians. In October 2006 he sued the Federal Constitutional Court against the publication of the amount of his ancillary income with reference to his work as a lawyer and notary, as he was bound by the obligation of confidentiality towards his clients. Most of the plaintiffs are MPs who are freelance lawyers, who see the disclosure of the amount of additional income as a competitive disadvantage compared to competitors from the private sector. The complaint was dismissed on July 4, 2007 by the Federal Constitutional Court. Critics of the lawsuit see this as a strengthening of the lack of transparency of political elected officials .

For the 2009 Bundestag election , Hans-Joachim Otto applied as a “lawyer for the capable” (poster slogan). For the 2013 federal election he was defeated by party colleague Björn Sänger in the vote for third place on the Hessian state list.

Documents about Otto's parliamentary activities are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

honors and awards

Web links

Commons : Hans-Joachim Otto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New maritime coordinator has sea water in his blood , December 16, 2013 - Association of German Shipowners welcomes the decision
  2. ↑ GSK: GSK Stockmann - Commercial law firm: Dr. Hans-Joachim Otto strengthens GSK Stockmann + Kollegen in Frankfurt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; accessed on August 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Otto & Politics. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  4. ^ Federal technical committees . In: Free Democrats - FDP . ( fdp.de [accessed on August 1, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Network 80 - Network 80. Retrieved on August 4, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ New maritime coordinator has sea water in his blood , December 16, 2013 - Association of German Shipowners welcomes the decision
  7. ↑ Stefan Behr: Johnny Klinkes Herbstreveue: Roared loudly, Tiger! In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 9, 2009, accessed February 5, 2014 .
  8. ↑ News. Hans-Joachim Otto's website, archived from the original on January 3, 2013 ; accessed on February 5, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg