Sven-Joachim Otto

Sven-Joachim Otto (born October 16, 1969 in Mannheim ) is a German lawyer and former CDU politician .

job

After studying business administration, law and administration in Mannheim , Speyer and Berkeley ( USA ), Otto worked as a lawyer at the international law firm Shearman & Sterling, together with Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz Mannheim, before he became a judge at the Heilbronn Social Court in 2001 Was called for life.

Between 2006 and 2019 Otto worked in various functions at PricewaterhouseCoopers AG . As a partner and lawyer at PricewaterhouseCoopers AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (Public Services & Energy) for municipal companies in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Hanover, he is head of the Legal & Tax department in the areas of labor and social law, energy law, litigation, public procurement law and waste disposal law.

Otto has been working for EY Law in Düsseldorf since the end of 2019.

Political activity

In 1999 Sven-Joachim Otto ran for the CDU as Lord Mayor of the City of Mannheim and was able to achieve the best result for the CDU in an election for Lord Mayor in Mannheim. After a narrow defeat in the runoff election, Otto subsequently led both the CDU parliamentary group in Mannheim and the CDU parliamentary group in the Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald regional association . In these functions he was also involved in several supervisory boards, including a. at MVV Energie AG , Klinikum Mannheim gGmbH, Großkraftwerk Mannheim AG and Sparkasse Rhein-Neckar-Nord .

As a member of the state board of the CDU Baden-Württemberg from 1999 to 2003 and as chairman of the “Big Cities” working group of the CDU and CSU Local Political Association from 2000 to 2007, Otto brought his professional and political experience to various party bodies. After an unsuccessful election as treasurer in Mannheim on September 17, 2004, Otto left Mannheim. He then worked as a lawyer in Düsseldorf.

Frog Prince affair

Otto was charged with insulting the CDU member of the state parliament, Klaus Dieter Reichardt, in the “Morgenweb” internet forum of the Mannheimer Morgen . Under 31 pseudonyms such as "Frosch" or "Froschkönig" he had published articles on certain people in the "Morgenweb" forum, such as the then Finance Minister of Baden-Württemberg Gerhard Stratthaus (CDU) or an SPD local politician. Otto apologized to everyone whom he had harmed with the web entries. As a consequence of the affair , Otto left Mannheim to start over as a lawyer in Düsseldorf.

Following the affair, Otto spoke publicly and unreservedly admitted the allegations. He then publicly described everyday political life using the example of his own experiences. Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel used it to stage their play Wallenstein , in which people are measured against the protagonists from Schiller's work Wallenstein . Otto plays himself in the piece.

Private

Sven-Joachim Otto lives in Meerbusch near Düsseldorf and is married to Heike Otto. The couple have two sons and a daughter. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Churpfalz Mannheim.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JUVE- www.juve.de: Public commercial law: EY Law brings in well-known PwC legal partner «JUVE. Retrieved January 14, 2020 . 
2. ↑ CDU in severe and serious crisis at www.woweezowee.de (accessed on February 24, 2010)
3. ↑ Defamation - The Mannheim CDU is in front of a pile of broken glass. In the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Department of the Main State Archives Stuttgart, R 4/016 R050022 / 206. ( Online )
4. ↑ Sven-Joachim Otto and the loneliest moment of a politician on Jetzt.de / Sueddeutsche Zeitung (accessed on February 25, 2010)
5. ↑ Dr. Otto Wallenstein - The Rimini Protocol (accessed on February 25, 2010)

Web links

• CV at pwclegal.de
• Literature by and about Sven-Joachim Otto in the catalog of the German National Library