Heinz-Joachim Otto

Heinz-Joachim Otto (born September 16, 1933 in Berlin ; † June 10, 2017 ) was a German politician (SPD). From 1970 to 1977 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Otto grew up in West Prussia . He and his family fled at the end of the Second World War and initially stayed in Poland for two years .

After moving to Germany, he graduated from secondary school in Einbeck in 1952 . In 1955 he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk. He then studied from 1956 to 1959 at the University of Education in Göttingen. He began as a teacher at an elementary school and, while doing so, passed the examination as a secondary school teacher in the subjects of German and history. From 1977 to 1994 he was the principal of the Klippkanne secondary school in Brake (Unterweser) .

Otto had been a union member since 1953. First he joined the IG Metall , from 1959 the education and science union . He also joined the SPD, for which he was active from 1967 as deputy chairman of a sub-district.

From 1964 Otto was a member of the district council of Einbeck, where he was also district administrator from 1968 to 1974 . On June 21, 1970, he entered the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he was a member in the seventh and eighth electoral periods until October 26, 1977.

From 1985 to 2006 Otto was a member of the council of Brake (Unterweser).

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 284.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report in NWZ Online.
2. ↑ Obituaries