1. Matthias "Max" Otte was born on 7 October 1964 and is an economist, publicist and right wing political activist who holds German and US citizenship.
44 Facts About Max Otte
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Max Otte has written several books, mainly on financial policy topics.
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From June 2018 to January 2021, Max Otte was chairman of the board of trustees of the AfD-affiliated Desiderius-Erasmus-Foundation.
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In January 2022, Max Otte became provisionally expelled from the CDU when he was nominated by the right-wing populist party AfD as a candidate for the 2022 German presidential election.
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Max Otte faced further proceedings for a permanent exclusion from the CDU which concluded in August 2022 with Otte's formal expulsion from the CDU.
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Max Otte obtained his Abitur at Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Plettenberg in 1983.
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Max Otte completed his education in 1989 with a degree in economics.
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Max Otte worked as a consultant for international organizations and the public sector at Kienbaum and Partners from 1989 to 1994 and was an employee of the Gutersloh Center for Higher Education in 1995.
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Max Otte advised various companies and organizations, including Munich Re, the German Federal Ministry of Economics, and the United Nations.
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From 1998 to 2000, Max Otte was assistant professor of International Economics and International Management at the Department of International Relations at Boston University.
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Max Otte helped establish the Executive MBA Program in Business Integration at the Julius Maximilians University of Wurzburg from 2001 to 2005.
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Max Otte has published articles in newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, Financial Times Deutschland, The Times, Harvard Business Review and Wirtschaftsdienst and has appeared on television, with broadcasters such as ARD, ZDF, SWR, n-TV, Bloomberg and N24.
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Max Otte is the author of several books mainly on financial policy topics.
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Max Otte has held US citizenship in addition to German citizenship since 2005.
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Max Otte defended his title as "Money Manager of the Year" in 2010 and obtained more than half of the votes, competing against 10 other money managers.
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In November 2017, it was revealed that Max Otte had moved the management of his funds from Switzerland to Germany.
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In 2009, Max Otte advocated the nationalization of the bank Hypo Real Estate.
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Max Otte sees Germany's savings banks and cooperative banks as a stability factor and a way to promote small and medium-sized businesses.
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Max Otte described the international financial market as a threat to democracy.
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Max Otte said that the financial sector had hijacked politics.
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Max Otte criticized a legitimacy deficit in the European Union.
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At an event of the globalization-critical non-governmental organization Attac in August 2017, Max Otte criticized that politics had capitulated to the capital lobby.
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Max Otte described the prevailing economic order as "loot capitalism" for the benefit of the super-rich and called for financial income to be taxed like labor income.
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Max Otte described the prevailing opinion of many economists as a "religion of hypercapitalism" that is oriented only toward self-interest.
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In 2017, Max Otte founded the Oswald Spengler Society with David Engels and Michael Thondl, on whose presidium Max Otte serves as treasurer.
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Fratzscher criticizes that Max Otte deliberately incites panic in order to sell his books.
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Michael Blume notes that Max Otte's forecasts regarding the value of gold were wrong and the income value of the funds managed by Max Otte were "weak to embarrassing".
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Max Otte considered these two as "two sides of the same coin" and suggested that a financially strong lobby might be behind all of that.
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Max Otte criticized the media for an alleged agitation against the political right.
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Max Otte didn't leave the CDU and became federal president of the Value Union in May 2021.
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Since the party started in 2013, CDU member Max Otte had expressed his sympathy for the AfD in many ways.
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In January 2022 Max Otte became nominee of the AfD for the 2022 German presidential election.
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On 5 May 2018, Max Otte was the organizer of the New Hambach Festival.
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Max Otte was a member of the CDU from 1991 until his temporary expulsion in January 2022.
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Max Otte became a member of the Values Union in 2017 and served as its chairman from May 2021 until January 2022.
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In 2006, Max Otte was a founding member of the Center for Value Investing as well as its director and supervisory board.
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Max Otte has been serving on the advisory board of the Prussian Society Berlin-Brandenburg since 2010.
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Max Otte is a member of the German Language Association.
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Max Otte received the Mont Pelerin Society Award for his 1988 essay "Toward an Open World Order".
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Max Otte is the initiator of the Human Roots Award, which is presented by the Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz.
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Max Otte focuses in particular on whether the increase in power following the reunification has led to a shift in the style of the Federal Republic of Germany's foreign policy.
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John Duffield shared Berger's disapproval of Max Otte's framework, calling it "insufficiently developed" and asserting that Max Otte's argument comes close to "becoming nonfalsifiable".
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Max Otte objected to Otte not engaging with alternative explanations and criticised a number of internal contradictions.
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Max Otte believes that there are several causes of the crisis:.