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Christian Otte (Politician)
Christian Otte (born 1971 in Neuss) is a German businessman and politician. He has been federal chairman of the German Center Party since April 2022. Biography He comes from a medium-sized family company for pump systems from Kaarst. As a trained commercial lawyer, he is responsible for commercial management there. Otte is both the federal chairman of the German Center Party and its state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha .... Previously he was General Secretary of the party. He is a member of the city council of Kaarst and chairman of the center city association. He is also deputy chairman of the real estate committee, the main, economic and financial committee. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kaarst-Büttgen Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Center Party
The Centre Party (german: Zentrum), officially the German Centre Party (german: link=no, Deutsche Zentrumspartei) and also known in English as the Catholic Centre Party, is a Catholic political party in Germany, influential in the German Empire and Weimar Republic. It is the oldest German political party to be still in existence since its founding date. Formed in 1870, it successfully battled the '' Kulturkampf'' waged by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck against the Catholic Church. It soon won a quarter of the seats in the Reichstag (Imperial Parliament), and its middle position on most issues allowed it to play a decisive role in the formation of majorities. The party name ''Zentrum'' (Centre) originally came from the fact Catholic representatives would take up the middle section of seats in parliament between social democrats and conservatives. For most of the Weimar Republic, the Centre Party was the third-largest party in the Reichstag and a bulwark of the Republic, participa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
