Gerold Otten | |
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 Otten in 2019 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
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| Born | (1955-12-07)7 December 1955 (age 69) |
| Political party | AfD |
Gerold Joachim Otten (born 7 December 1955) is a retiredGerman Air ForceOberst (Colonel) and politician (AfD). Since 24 October 2017, he has served as member of theBundestag.[1]
On 9 April 2019, in the post 2021 term, and again on 25 March 2025, the AfD faction in the Bundestag nominated Otten for the position ofVice President of the Bundestag.[2] As every AfD candidate since 2017, he was rejected.
Birn 7 December 1955, Otten grew up in a hamlet near Bremen, his father was a social democratic mayor ofLübberstedt for 25 years.
In July 1975, he joined the Bundeswehr Luftwaffe and was trained as aWeapon systems officer (WSO) for theF-4 Phantom andPanavia Tornado aircraft. The last three years of his "BO 41" career ("professional officer with the special age limit of 41 years") spent Otten in the multinational training center Tri-National Tornado Training based onRAF Cottesmore for German, British and Italian crews on Tornado. According to that he left in March 1997 in the rank of a major from the Bundeswehr.[3]
Subsequently, Otten worked for the aerospace groupDASA and was most recently active as aEurofighter Sales Director in its successor companyAirbus Defense and Space.[3] He was a colonel of the reserve at the Air Force Officer School in Fürstenfeldbruck.[4]
Otten lives in Putzbrunn,[5] is divorced and has an adult son.[6]
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