Christian Otte (born 1971 in Neuss) is a German businessman and politician. He has been federal chairman of the

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 History of Germany, Germany, influential i ...

since April 2022.

Biography

He comes from a medium-sized family company for pump systems from

Kaarst Kaarst (; li, Kaasj) is a town in Germany. It lies in the district of Rhein-Kreis Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is 5 km west of Neuss and 12 km east of Mönchengladbach. Division of the town Kaarst consists of 5 subdivisions * ...

. 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 Savings Banks Foundation. In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2022, he took first place on the state list of the Center Party, unsuccessfully with only 4,162 second votes.

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