Otto Fricke (politician, 1965)

Otto Fricke

Otto Fricke (born November 21, 1965 in Krefeld ) is a German politician ( FDP ). From 2005 to 2009 he was chairman of the budget committee of the German Bundestag and from 2009 to 2013 one of four parliamentary directors of the FDP parliamentary group .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1985 at the Fabritianum grammar school in Krefeld- Uerdingen , Fricke did his military service from 1985 to 1986 in the air force . From 1986 to 1992 he studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . After completing his legal clerkship with the FDP parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia , he passed his second state examination in 1995 in Düsseldorf. He has been admitted to the bar since 1995 . From 1996 to 2002 he was parliamentary advisor for legal policy and parliamentary law of the FDP parliamentary group.

At the beginning of February 2014 Otto Fricke became a partner in the Berlin office of the management consultancy "CNC - Communications & Network Consulting AG". Since January 2010 he has been a member of the board of trustees of World Vision Germany .

Political party

Fricke has been a member of the FDP since 1989. From 1996 to 1998 and again since 2002 he has been deputy chairman of the FDP district association in Krefeld. From 2012 to 2013 he was the federal treasurer of his party. In May 2015 he became state treasurer of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2015 he has been an assessor on the federal board of the Free Democrats .

MP

From 2002 to 2013 Fricke was a member of the German Bundestag , which he always entered via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia . In the Bundestag he was chairman of the budget committee from 2005 to 2009 and one of twelve members of the electoral committee, which at that time still directly appointed half of the judges of the Federal Constitutional Court . On October 26, 2009 Fricke was elected by the parliamentary group of the FDP as one of four parliamentary managers. When his party failed to pass the five percent hurdle in the 2013 federal election , he lost his seat in the Bundestag.

In the 2017 federal election, Otto Fricke ran in constituency 110 (Krefeld I - Neuss II) and entered the Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia (7th place on the list). Here he is a member of the budget committee .

In the 19th German Bundestag Otto Fricke is a full member of the Federal Financing Committee and the Budget Committee . He is also represented as a deputy member of the Committee for Culture and Media and the election committee .

Political positions

At the end of May 2010, Fricke, in his capacity as budget spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” that he saw the reduction in VAT for hotels (from 19% to 7%) (decided shortly after taking office in autumn 2009) under scrutiny.

On the grounds of achieving a reduction in national debt, he also advocates that government expenditure, including social benefits, be automatically reduced depending on income.

Fricke considers Greece's exit from the euro zone to be undramatic. "The specter of a disorderly bankruptcy has lost its horror because the euro countries have done nothing other than to take precautions for such a case in recent months," said Fricke.

Memberships

He is a member of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation .

Private

Otto Fricke is married and has three children. He belongs to the Evangelical Church . On a scale from “' believing ' to ' evangelical '”, Fricke sees himself “somewhere at the upper end”. Since his studies he has been a member of the Academic Association Albingia-Black Forest-Zaringia in the Miltenberger Ring in Freiburg. Fricke speaks Dutch very well.