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Max Otte

Matthias "Max" Otte (born 7 October 1964) is an economist, publicist and political activist who holds German and U.S. citizenship. Otte, who has held professorships in Worms, Graz and Erfurt, is currently a fund manager.[1] He has written several bestsellers, mainly on financial policy topics.[2][3][4]

Max Otte
Otte in 2016
Born
Matthias Otte

(1964-10-07) 7 October 1964 (age 59)
Citizenship
  • Germany
  • United States
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Economist, author, fund manager, political activist
Known for
Political partyChristian Democratic Union (CDU; expelled in 2022)
MovementValues Union
Children3
Awards
Websitemax-otte.de

From June 2018 to January 2021, Otte was chairman of the board of trustees of the AfD-affiliated Desiderius-Erasmus-Foundation. A member of the CDU since 1991,[5] he led the Werteunion from May 2021[6] until January 2022.[7] In January 2022, Otte became provisorily expelled from the CDU when he was nominated by the right-wing populist party AfD as a candidate for the 2022 German presidential election.[8][9] He faced further proceedings for a permanent exclusion from the CDU[9] which concluded in August 2022 with Otte's formal expulsion from the CDU.[10]

Early life edit

Otte was born in Plettenberg, West Germany to Lore Otte,[11] née Hauter, and Max Otte (1928-1983), a vocational school teacher and local politician. After the death of his father, Otte took his first name Max. Max Otte obtained his Abitur (university entrance qualification) at Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Plettenberg in 1983.[12]

Education edit

In 1983, Otte graduated from high school in Plettenberg. From 1983 to 1989, he studied business administration, economics and political science at the University of Cologne. Between 1986 and 1987, he spent a year abroad at the American University in Washington, D.C., on a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, where he majored in economic policy, finance and marketing. During this time, he received various scholarships and awards. He completed his education in 1989 with a degree in economics. After graduating from Princeton University with a Master of Arts in Public Affairs in 1991, Otte earned his doctorate there in 1997 with Aaron Friedberg's thesis "A Rising Middle Power? - German Foreign Policy in Transformation."[13]

Career edit

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 Gütersloh Center for Higher Education (CHE) in 1995.[14] From 1997 to 1998, he was employed by Arthur D. Little. He advised various companies and organizations, including Munich Re, the German Federal Ministry of Economics, and the United Nations. From 1998 to 2000, Otte was assistant professor of International Economics and International Management at the Department of International Relations at Boston University.[15] He also helped establish the Executive MBA Program in Business Integration at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from 2001 to 2005.[16]

In 2001, he became a tenured professor of general and international business administration at Worms University of Applied Sciences, where he taught marketing, international business studies, and finance and investment in the departments of international business administration and foreign trade, as well as tourism.[14] From 2011 to 2016, he was a professor of quantitative and qualitative business analysis and diagnosis at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria.[17][18] In 2018, he retired from civil service at his own request.

Otte has been a fund manager since 2005.[19] For a time, he held a lectureship at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Erfurt.

Otte is the author and editor of several books. 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[20] and has appeared on television, with broadcasters such as ARD, ZDF, SWR, n-TV, Bloomberg and N24. In 2021, he published his most personal book, In Search of Lost Germany, writing about his childhood, his parents, grandparents, and the people who influenced him.[21][22]

Author edit

Otte is the author of several books. He has written several bestsellers, mainly on financial policy topics.[23][24][25] His first books appeared starting in 1989, initially publishing exclusively for the university field, such as on macroeconomics or general economic policy. His first book outside of this field was America for Businessmen: das Einmaleins der ungeschriebenen Regeln, published by Campus-Verlag in 1996. In 2006, Otte published the book "Der Crash kommt. The New Global Economic Crisis and How to Prepare for It." In it, he predicted a collapse of the stock markets. In the course of the financial crisis starting in 2007, Otte made this known to a broad public.[26][27][28][29] This was followed by "The Information Crash" and "Stop the Euro Disaster," in which he took a critical look at the euro crisis and called for Greece to be allowed to go broke.[30][31] In his last book "Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Deutschland", he writes about his childhood, his family, and about flight and expulsion in his father's family.[32]

Private life edit

Otte is the father of three children.[33] Otte has held U.S. citizenship in addition to German citizenship since 2005.[34]

Investment funds edit

In 2003, he founded the Institut für Vermögensentwicklung (IFVE) as a limited liability company.[35] A stock corporation established in Switzerland in the meantime has since been deleted.[36]

Otte first became active as a fund advisor in October 2005 for a fund launched by Banque SCS Alliance in Luxembourg, the Pléiade Actions "Privatinvestor."[37] He recommended this in 2006 in the book Der Crash kommt as a "fund for the crisis," but discontinued his advisory work for this fund at the height of the financial crisis in October 2008.[32] In March 2008, the investment fund PI Global Value Fund was launched in Liechtenstein, which according to Otte's statements invested according to his strategy. This second fund received marketing authorization for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in 2011. This was followed in July 2013 by the Max Otte Vermögensbildungsfonds AMI, launched by Ampega Investment, a fund exclusively for German investors, as Otte said he could no longer advise PI Global Value personally, but only through his Swiss "Privatinvestor" management company, due to his residence in Cologne and the tightened legal situation since the financial crisis.[38] At the end of 2016, Otte initiated a hedge fund for professional investors. The fund was launched in March 2008.

In November 2009, he was voted "Money Manager of the Year" by the readers of the stock market journal Börse Online, winning 10,000 votes from a total of 24,000. In the same month, he confirmed that the value of (European) stocks were not yet too expensive. He 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.

The PI Global Value fund (WKN: A0NE9G), launched in March 2008, "is among the top ten to 15 percent." However, the sale of gold mining stocks in 2015 was "simply wrong." According to a report by Börse Online, the "accusation of continuous underperformance" of the funds initiated by Otte is also unjustified. The PI Global Value fund had beaten the DAX, EURO STOXX 50 as well as the MSCI World over its entire term until the end of 2016. During this period, the fund had recorded an increase in value of 87.43 percent, which corresponded to an annual return of 7.46 percent.[39]

In November 2017, it was revealed that Otte had moved the management of his funds from Switzerland to Germany.[40] To do so, he had received a license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).[41] In 2020, this was extended to a portfolio management license.[42]

In July 2021, the fund was changed from Max Otte Vermögensbildungsfonds to PI Vermögensbildungsfonds (DE000A1J3AM3).[43] The fund is managed by Bayerische Vermögen AG in Traunstein.[44]

Positions edit

Finance edit

 
Max Otte at a fund congress (2019).

In 2006, Otte published the book "The Crash is Coming. The New Global Economic Crisis and How to Prepare for It." In it, he predicted a collapse of the stock markets. In the course of the financial crisis starting in 2007, Otte made this publicly known.[27][28][29]

In 2009, Otte advocated the nationalization of the bank Hypo Real Estate. He sees Germany's savings banks and cooperative banks as a stability factor and a way to promote small and medium-sized businesses.[45][46]

In a hearing in the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag in 2010, Otte expressed the view that a financial transaction tax would lead to lower fees for money investors via reduced portfolio reallocations.[47] Otte described the international financial market as a threat to democracy. He said that the financial sector had hijacked politics. In the monetary policy of central banks, Otte sees planned economy[48] and drew comparisons to the final phase of the GDR.[49]

European Union edit

In April 2010, Otte called for the most indebted countries in Europe to leave the Eurozone. In 2010, he supported a call for the German government to ban uncovered short selling.[50] Otte advocates massive regulation of financial markets and calls for rules on banks' capital adequacy as the basis of their liability in a market economy.[51][52] He criticized a legitimacy deficit in the European Union.

Criticism of capitalism edit

At an event of the globalization-critical non-governmental organization Attac in August 2017, Otte criticized that politics had capitulated to the capital lobby. He 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.[53] He described the prevailing opinion of many economists as a "religion of hypercapitalism" that is oriented only toward self-interest.[54]

Joint Statement 2018 edit

In March 2018, Otte was among the first signatories of the "Joint Declaration 2018", an appeal by German authors, publicists, artists, scientists, and politicians against "damaging Germany" by an "illegal mass immigration" taking place in the context of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015.[55][56]

Oswald Spengler Society edit

In 2017, Otte founded the Oswald Spengler Society with David Engels and Michael Thöndl, on whose presidium Otte serves as treasurer.[57] In 2018, the Oswald Spengler Prize, endowed by Otte and worth 10,000 euros, was awarded for the first time to Michel Houellebecq.[58][59] In 2020, it was awarded to Walter Scheidel, a historian who teaches at Stanford University. The Oswald Spengler Society was founded by Otte.[60]

Criticism and controversies edit

Economic forecasting and conspiracy theories edit

Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research, regards Otte as a "crash prophet". According to Fratzscher Otte partly describes economic problems correctly, but draws false conclusions from that. Fratzscher criticizes that Otte deliberately incites panic in order to sell his books.[61] Michael Blume notes that Otte's forecasts regarding the value of gold were wrong and the income value of the funds managed by Otte were "weak to embarrassing".[62]

During a protest rally over COVID-19 policies in Germany on 31 May 2020, Otte talked about an alleged connection between the COVID-19 pandemic and the abolition of cash payments. He considered these two as "two sides of the same coin" and suggested that a financially strong lobby might be behind all of that. Blume concludes that Otte mixes up nationalistic, racist and antisemitic allusions to convey his conspiracy beliefs.[62]

Murder of Walter Lübcke edit

After the right-wing murder of Walter Lübcke in 2019 Otte questioned the right-wing extremist motive of the murderer. He criticized the media for an alleged agitation against the political right. This led to a number of politicians from the Union and the Value Union to call for Otte leaving the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).[63] Otte didn't leave the CDU and became federal president of the Value Union in May 2021.[64]

Relationship with Alternative for Germany edit

Before the 2017 German federal election Otte said he would vote for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and argued in favor of a coalition government between the CDU and the AfD.[65] In January 2022 Otte became nominee of the AfD for the 2022 German presidential election.[8] As a consequence he was expelled from the CDU temporarily and moreover faced expulsion proceedings for a permanent exclusion.[9] The proceedings concluded on 3 August 2022 with the expected result of Otte's formal expulsion from the CDU.[10]

Before being nominated as the AfD candidate for the presidency, Max Otte donated at least 30,000 euros to the party, like research by NDR and WDR showed. AfD party representatives deny a connection to his candidacy.[66][67]

New Hambach Festival edit

 
Max Otte at the New Hambach Festival (2018)

On 5 May 2018, Otte was the organizer of the New Hambach Festival. The event was attended by around 1,200 visitors and various speakers from the right-wing populist camp, including Jörg Meuthen, Thilo Sarrazin and Vera Lengsfeld, who wanted to continue the tradition of the Hambach Festival of 1832.[68][69]

Even before the event, Melanie Amann pointed out in Der Spiegel a method "in the right-wing milieu" of claiming historical dates and places for oneself and drawing one's own "actions as a logical continuation of the work of heroic role models." Otte denied to the magazine that this was an AfD event. However, he said, the "AfD is also the only party that openly addresses the basic problem of this country. Namely, "we are witnessing the dismantling of everything we can be proud of."[70]

The event was held again in 2019 and 2020.[71]

Memberships edit

Otte was a member of the CDU from 1991 until his temporary expulsion in January 2022.[9][72] The expulsion was made permanent in August 2022.[10] He became a member of the Values Union in 2017 and served as its chairman from May 2021 until January 2022.[6][73]

In 2006, Otte was a founding member of the Center for Value Investing as well as its director and supervisory board.[74] According to his website he is also a member of the Atlantik-Brücke, the German-American Business Club Frankfurt and the German Association for Financial Analysis and Asset Management.[75] Otte has been serving on the advisory board of the Prussian Society Berlin-Brandenburg since 2010.[76][77] He is a member of the German Language Association.[78]

Awards edit

Otte received the Mont Pelerin Society Award for his 1988 essay "Toward an Open World Order". This society was founded in 1947 by Friedrich August von Hayek as an association of academics, businessmen and journalists.

Otte is the initiator of the Human Roots Award [de], which is presented by the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz.[79] He was the founding benefactor of the first 2017 prize of €10,000.[80] It is an international archaeology prize that was awarded for the first time in 2017.[81]

Books edit

A Rising Middle Power? edit

In his book A Rising Middle Power? (New York, 2000), Max Otte examines German foreign policy in recent years. He 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. Alongside a political economic analysis of the power potential of the Federal Republic of Germany, the book contains three case studies: Germany and European unification/introduction of the Euro, Germany and military interventions abroad and the eastward enlargement of the EU. Ottes surprising conclusion is that, whilst Germany's power has grown, the demands on the reunified country have grown even more strongly. Germany diplomacy continues to be typical of a middle power, aiming at reconciliation.

Thomas Berger described it as a "welcome contribution to the growing literature on German foreign policy", but criticised inconsistencies in Otte's realist framework and the author not operationalising "middle power".[82] John Duffield shared Berger's disapproval of Otte's framework, calling it "insufficiently developed" and asserting that Otte's argument comes close to "becoming nonfalsifiable". He also objected to Otte not engaging with alternative explanations and criticised a number of internal contradictions.[83]

Investieren statt Sparen edit

In his book Investieren statt Sparen Otte describes how private investors can achieve long-term wealth creation. It is in the interest of the investor to carry out his financial planning personally, and not have it performed by a third party. Investment is the most important component of long-term wealth creation, although personal responsibility, transparency and availability of reliable financial information as well as patience for the investment horizon are also essential. Sound investments also involve taking calculable risks. In addition, Otte describes the advantage internet offers for carrying out online bank transactions, automatically placing orders, as well as facilitating communication and exchange of information between investors. The effect of doubling private assets is based on the principle of compound interest and the possibility of earning an approx. average annual return of 8-10%, for example on the DAX. The financial objectives are determined by disposable net income, the return on investment, the investment period and the age of the investor. The investment amount is defined as savings minus consumption. The highest yields can be obtained from investment in stocks. The ownership of stocks makes the investor co-owner of a company, enabling him to benefit from the economic success of the company's goods and services. Successful long-term investments by private investors have largely resulted from investment in strong brands and quality organizations such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Sony, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, IBM, etc., which have been established on the market for a long period of time.

The value of stocks is based on the present and future earnings of the organization. Otte divides stocks into several categories: "Meisteraktien" ("master stocks": internationally renowned companies with global brands such as DaimlerChrysler, Coca-Cola, Siemens), "Kaufleuteaktien" ("trader stocks": large corporations that are currently undervalued with a low price / earnings ratio; high earnings in spite of low market value), "Königsaktien" ("king stocks": the world's best mature large corporations and industry leaders that grow less quickly than revolutionary stocks), "Revolutionärsaktien" ("revolutionary stocks": young growing companies with revolutionary, innovative ideas such as Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, etc.) and "Valueaktien" (blue chips).

Der Crash kommt. edit

After the publication of his book Der Crash kommt., Max Otte became more widely known.[citation needed] The book begins with the preface from the first edition in 2006:

I can't tell you whether the crash will come in 2008. Perhaps it will come already in 2007, or even later in 2009 or 2010. Human behavior – for that is what the outbreak of a major global economic crisis is about - cannot be predicted with mathematic precision, even if some "crisis prophets" will always try to do so. Some of the strongest indications seem to point to the year 2010, others to the end of 2007. However, if I have correctly understood the signals coming from the world economy, then it will have to crash – and with an enormous impact.

— Max Otte

Otte sees himself as a political economist in the tradition of Friedrich List, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Werner Sombart, Alexander Rüstow and Wilhelm Röpke, and is inspired by the Austrian school of economic thought.[clarification needed]

Otte accurately forecast that the U.S. property market and subprime securities would spark the crisis. He believes that there are several causes of the crisis:

  • the rise in debt since the beginning of the neo-liberal revolution at the beginning of the 80s, in particular in the USA
  • the excessive growth in financial assets, deregulation and relaxed monetary policy
  • the shift in the center of the world economy
  • excessive globalization
  • the deterioration in economic practices, partly caused by financial derivatives
  • demographic challenges

Moreover, Otte emphasizes that financial crises are not unusual in capitalism, however the majority of economists are reluctant to analyse them. In the last two chapters of the book Otte gives investment tips.

Publications (selection) edit

Monographs edit

  • Otte, Max (1996). Amerika für Geschäftsleute. Das Einmaleins der ungeschriebenen Regeln [America for business people. The basics of the unwritten rules.] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag. ISBN 3-593-35592-2.
  • Otte, Max (1988). The United States, Japan, West Germany and Europe in the international economy 1977–1987. Between conflict and coordination. Idstein: Schulz-Kirchner. ISBN 3-925196-67-6.
  • Otte, Max (2006). Der Crash kommt. Die neue Weltwirtschaftskrise und wie Sie sich darauf vorbereiten [The crash is coming. The new global economic crisis and how to prepare for it.] (in German). Berlin: Econ Verlag. ISBN 3-430-20001-6.
  • Otte, Max (2009). Der Informationscrash. Wie wir systematisch für dumm verkauft werden [The Information Crash. How we are systematically taken for fools.] (in German). Berlin: Econ Verlag. ISBN 978-3-430-20078-3.
  • Otte, Max (2011). Stoppt das Euro-Desaster [Stop the Euro Disaster] (in German). Berlin: Ullstein Verlag. ISBN 978-3-550-08896-4.
  • Otte, Max (2012). Endlich mit Aktien Geld verdienen. Die Strategien und Techniken, die Erfolg versprechen [Earn money with shares at last. The strategies and techniques that promise success.] (in German). München: FinanzBuch Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89879-631-6.
  • Otte, Max (2016). Rettet unser Bargeld! [Save our cash!] (in German). Berlin: Ullstein Verlag. ISBN 978-3-550-08158-3.
  • Otte, Max (2016). Investieren statt sparen. Anlegen in Zeiten von Niedrigzinsen, Bargeldverbot und Brexit [Investing instead of saving. Investing in times of low interest rates, cash bans and Brexit.] (in German). Berlin: Econ Verlag. ISBN 978-3-430-20225-1.
  • Otte, Max (2019). Die Finanzmärkte und die ökonomische Selbstbehauptung Europas. Gedanken zu Finanzkrisen, Marktwirtschaft und Unternehmertum [The financial markets and the economic self-assertion of Europe. Thoughts on financial crises, market economy and entrepreneurship.] (in German). Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler. ISBN 978-3-658-23178-1.
  • Otte, Max (2020). Weltsystemcrash. Krisen, Unruhen und die Geburt einer neuen Weltordnung [World System Crash. Crises, unrest and the birth of a new world order.] (in German). München: FinanzBuch Verlag. ISBN 978-3-95972-282-7.
  • Otte, Max (2021). Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Deutschland: Notizen aus einer anderen Zeit [In Search of the Lost Germany: Notes from Another Time.] (in German). München: FinanzBuch Verlag. p. 288. ISBN 978-3959724036.

Editions (publisher, co-editor or co-worker) edit

  • Mackay, Charles; Vega, Joseph de la (2010). Otte, Max (ed.). Gier und Wahnsinn. Warum der Crash immer wieder kommt ... [Greed and madness. Why the crash always comes back ...] (in German). München: FinanzBuch Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89879-560-9.
  • Fergusson, Adam (2011). Otte, Max (ed.). . Hyperinflation und ihre Folgen am Beispiel der Weimarer Republik [The end of money - hyperinflation and its consequences using the example of the Weimar Republic] (in German). FinanzBuch Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89879-627-9.
  • Brandeis, Louis D. (2012). Otte, Max (ed.). Das Geld der Anderen. Wie die Banker uns ausnehmen [Other people's money. How the bankers are fleecing us.] (in German). München: FinanzBuch Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89879-679-8.
  • Otte, Max; Steinbach, Erika, eds. (2018). Nachdenken für Deutschland. Wie wir die Zukunft unseres Landes sichern können [Thinking for Germany. How we can secure the future of our country.]. Schriftenreihe der Desiderius Erasmus Stiftung (in German). Lüdinghausen/Berlin: Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung. ISBN 978-3-944872-89-6.
  • Otte, Max; Engels, David; Thöndl, Michael, eds. (2018). Der lange Schatten Oswald Spenglers: Hundert Jahre Untergang des Abendlandes [The Long Shadow of Oswald Spengler: One Hundred Years of the Decline of the Occident] (in German). Lüdinghausen/Berlin: Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhaltung. ISBN 978-3-944872-71-1.
  • Otte, Max; Houellebecq, Michel; Engels, David; Morgenthaler, Gerd, eds. (2019). Michel Houellebecq, Oswald Spengler und der "Untergang des Abendlandes: Reden anlässlich der Verleihung des Oswald-Spengel-Preises an Michael Houellebecq in Brüssel am 19. Oktober 2018 [Michel Houellebecq, Oswald Spengler and the "Fall of the Occident: Speeches on the occasion of the award of the Oswald Spengler Prize to Michael Houellebecq in Brussels on 19 October 2018] (in German). Lüdinghausen/Berlin: Edition Sonderwege, Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhaltung. ISBN 978-3-944872-91-9.

Essays edit

  • Otte, Max (11 January 1999). Die Unternehmenskultur entscheidet über den Erfolg von Fusionen [Corporate culture determines the success of mergers.]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German).
  • Otte, Max (2000). The New Atlantic Century. Harvard Business Review. pp. 2–3.
  • Otte, Max (2011). Ziegler, Dieter (ed.). Die Finanzkrise, die Ökonomen, der "Crashprophet" und die Wissenschaft von der Ökonomie [The financial crisis, economists, the "crash prophet" and the science of economics.]. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte (in German). Berlin: Verlag Walter de Gruyter. pp. 191–217.

Other edit

  • Otte, Max (2003). Otte, Max (ed.). Der Privatinvestor [The private investor] (in German). Köln: Institut für Vermögensentwicklung (IFVE). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • Otte, Max (27 May 2020). Otte, Max (ed.). Neustart für die Wirtschaft in Deutschland und Europa [A new start for the economy in Germany and Europe] (PDF) (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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External links edit

  • Literature by and about Max Otte in the German National Library catalogue
  • Lebenslauf (CV) on his personal website (in German)
  • Prof. Dr. Max Otte, Institut für Vermögensentwicklung (IFVE) (in German)
  • Interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German)
  • Interview with Cicero (in German)

otte, matthias, otte, born, october, 1964, economist, publicist, political, activist, holds, german, citizenship, otte, held, professorships, worms, graz, erfurt, currently, fund, manager, written, several, bestsellers, mainly, financial, policy, topics, otte,. Matthias Max Otte born 7 October 1964 is an economist publicist and political activist who holds German and U S citizenship Otte who has held professorships in Worms Graz and Erfurt is currently a fund manager 1 He has written several bestsellers mainly on financial policy topics 2 3 4 Max OtteOtte in 2016BornMatthias Otte 1964 10 07 7 October 1964 age 59 Plettenberg West GermanyCitizenshipGermanyUnited StatesAlma materUniversity of CologneAmerican UniversityPrinceton UniversityOccupation s Economist author fund manager political activistKnown forForecast of financial crisisNew Hambach FestivalPolitical partyChristian Democratic Union CDU expelled in 2022 MovementValues UnionChildren3AwardsMont Pelerin Society 1988 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1989 91 Websitemax otte wbr deFrom June 2018 to January 2021 Otte was chairman of the board of trustees of the AfD affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation A member of the CDU since 1991 5 he led the Werteunion from May 2021 6 until January 2022 7 In January 2022 Otte became provisorily expelled from the CDU when he was nominated by the right wing populist party AfD as a candidate for the 2022 German presidential election 8 9 He faced further proceedings for a permanent exclusion from the CDU 9 which concluded in August 2022 with Otte s formal expulsion from the CDU 10 Contents 1 Early life 1 1 Education 1 2 Career 1 3 Author 1 4 Private life 2 Investment funds 3 Positions 3 1 Finance 3 2 European Union 3 3 Criticism of capitalism 3 4 Joint Statement 2018 3 5 Oswald Spengler Society 4 Criticism and controversies 4 1 Economic forecasting and conspiracy theories 4 2 Murder of Walter Lubcke 4 3 Relationship with Alternative for Germany 5 New Hambach Festival 6 Memberships 7 Awards 8 Books 8 1 A Rising Middle Power 8 2 Investieren statt Sparen 8 3 Der Crash kommt 9 Publications selection 9 1 Monographs 9 2 Editions publisher co editor or co worker 9 3 Essays 9 4 Other 10 References 11 External linksEarly life editOtte was born in Plettenberg West Germany to Lore Otte 11 nee Hauter and Max Otte 1928 1983 a vocational school teacher and local politician After the death of his father Otte took his first name Max Max Otte obtained his Abitur university entrance qualification at Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium Plettenberg in 1983 12 Education edit In 1983 Otte graduated from high school in Plettenberg From 1983 to 1989 he studied business administration economics and political science at the University of Cologne Between 1986 and 1987 he spent a year abroad at the American University in Washington D C on a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation where he majored in economic policy finance and marketing During this time he received various scholarships and awards He completed his education in 1989 with a degree in economics After graduating from Princeton University with a Master of Arts in Public Affairs in 1991 Otte earned his doctorate there in 1997 with Aaron Friedberg s thesis A Rising Middle Power German Foreign Policy in Transformation 13 Career edit 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 CHE in 1995 14 From 1997 to 1998 he was employed by Arthur D Little He advised various companies and organizations including Munich Re the German Federal Ministry of Economics and the United Nations From 1998 to 2000 Otte was assistant professor of International Economics and International Management at the Department of International Relations at Boston University 15 He also helped establish the Executive MBA Program in Business Integration at the Julius Maximilians University of Wurzburg from 2001 to 2005 16 In 2001 he became a tenured professor of general and international business administration at Worms University of Applied Sciences where he taught marketing international business studies and finance and investment in the departments of international business administration and foreign trade as well as tourism 14 From 2011 to 2016 he was a professor of quantitative and qualitative business analysis and diagnosis at Karl Franzens University in Graz Austria 17 18 In 2018 he retired from civil service at his own request Otte has been a fund manager since 2005 19 For a time he held a lectureship at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Erfurt Otte is the author and editor of several books 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 20 and has appeared on television with broadcasters such as ARD ZDF SWR n TV Bloomberg and N24 In 2021 he published his most personal book In Search of Lost Germany writing about his childhood his parents grandparents and the people who influenced him 21 22 Author edit Otte is the author of several books He has written several bestsellers mainly on financial policy topics 23 24 25 His first books appeared starting in 1989 initially publishing exclusively for the university field such as on macroeconomics or general economic policy His first book outside of this field was America for Businessmen das Einmaleins der ungeschriebenen Regeln published by Campus Verlag in 1996 In 2006 Otte published the book Der Crash kommt The New Global Economic Crisis and How to Prepare for It In it he predicted a collapse of the stock markets In the course of the financial crisis starting in 2007 Otte made this known to a broad public 26 27 28 29 This was followed by The Information Crash and Stop the Euro Disaster in which he took a critical look at the euro crisis and called for Greece to be allowed to go broke 30 31 In his last book Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Deutschland he writes about his childhood his family and about flight and expulsion in his father s family 32 Private life edit Otte is the father of three children 33 Otte has held U S citizenship in addition to German citizenship since 2005 34 Investment funds editIn 2003 he founded the Institut fur Vermogensentwicklung IFVE as a limited liability company 35 A stock corporation established in Switzerland in the meantime has since been deleted 36 Otte first became active as a fund advisor in October 2005 for a fund launched by Banque SCS Alliance in Luxembourg the Pleiade Actions Privatinvestor 37 He recommended this in 2006 in the book Der Crash kommt as a fund for the crisis but discontinued his advisory work for this fund at the height of the financial crisis in October 2008 32 In March 2008 the investment fund PI Global Value Fund was launched in Liechtenstein which according to Otte s statements invested according to his strategy This second fund received marketing authorization for Germany Austria and Switzerland in 2011 This was followed in July 2013 by the Max Otte Vermogensbildungsfonds AMI launched by Ampega Investment a fund exclusively for German investors as Otte said he could no longer advise PI Global Value personally but only through his Swiss Privatinvestor management company due to his residence in Cologne and the tightened legal situation since the financial crisis 38 At the end of 2016 Otte initiated a hedge fund for professional investors The fund was launched in March 2008 In November 2009 he was voted Money Manager of the Year by the readers of the stock market journal Borse Online winning 10 000 votes from a total of 24 000 In the same month he confirmed that the value of European stocks were not yet too expensive He 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 The PI Global Value fund WKN A0NE9G launched in March 2008 is among the top ten to 15 percent However the sale of gold mining stocks in 2015 was simply wrong According to a report by Borse Online the accusation of continuous underperformance of the funds initiated by Otte is also unjustified The PI Global Value fund had beaten the DAX EURO STOXX 50 as well as the MSCI World over its entire term until the end of 2016 During this period the fund had recorded an increase in value of 87 43 percent which corresponded to an annual return of 7 46 percent 39 In November 2017 it was revealed that Otte had moved the management of his funds from Switzerland to Germany 40 To do so he had received a license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority BaFin 41 In 2020 this was extended to a portfolio management license 42 In July 2021 the fund was changed from Max Otte Vermogensbildungsfonds to PI Vermogensbildungsfonds DE000A1J3AM3 43 The fund is managed by Bayerische Vermogen AG in Traunstein 44 Positions editFinance edit nbsp Max Otte at a fund congress 2019 In 2006 Otte published the book The Crash is Coming The New Global Economic Crisis and How to Prepare for It In it he predicted a collapse of the stock markets In the course of the financial crisis starting in 2007 Otte made this publicly known 27 28 29 In 2009 Otte advocated the nationalization of the bank Hypo Real Estate He sees Germany s savings banks and cooperative banks as a stability factor and a way to promote small and medium sized businesses 45 46 In a hearing in the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag in 2010 Otte expressed the view that a financial transaction tax would lead to lower fees for money investors via reduced portfolio reallocations 47 Otte described the international financial market as a threat to democracy He said that the financial sector had hijacked politics In the monetary policy of central banks Otte sees planned economy 48 and drew comparisons to the final phase of the GDR 49 European Union edit In April 2010 Otte called for the most indebted countries in Europe to leave the Eurozone In 2010 he supported a call for the German government to ban uncovered short selling 50 Otte advocates massive regulation of financial markets and calls for rules on banks capital adequacy as the basis of their liability in a market economy 51 52 He criticized a legitimacy deficit in the European Union Criticism of capitalism edit At an event of the globalization critical non governmental organization Attac in August 2017 Otte criticized that politics had capitulated to the capital lobby He 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 53 He described the prevailing opinion of many economists as a religion of hypercapitalism that is oriented only toward self interest 54 Joint Statement 2018 edit In March 2018 Otte was among the first signatories of the Joint Declaration 2018 an appeal by German authors publicists artists scientists and politicians against damaging Germany by an illegal mass immigration taking place in the context of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 55 56 Oswald Spengler Society edit In 2017 Otte founded the Oswald Spengler Society with David Engels and Michael Thondl on whose presidium Otte serves as treasurer 57 In 2018 the Oswald Spengler Prize endowed by Otte and worth 10 000 euros was awarded for the first time to Michel Houellebecq 58 59 In 2020 it was awarded to Walter Scheidel a historian who teaches at Stanford University The Oswald Spengler Society was founded by Otte 60 Criticism and controversies editEconomic forecasting and conspiracy theories edit Marcel Fratzscher president of the German Institute for Economic Research regards Otte as a crash prophet According to Fratzscher Otte partly describes economic problems correctly but draws false conclusions from that Fratzscher criticizes that Otte deliberately incites panic in order to sell his books 61 Michael Blume notes that Otte s forecasts regarding the value of gold were wrong and the income value of the funds managed by Otte were weak to embarrassing 62 During a protest rally over COVID 19 policies in Germany on 31 May 2020 Otte talked about an alleged connection between the COVID 19 pandemic and the abolition of cash payments He considered these two as two sides of the same coin and suggested that a financially strong lobby might be behind all of that Blume concludes that Otte mixes up nationalistic racist and antisemitic allusions to convey his conspiracy beliefs 62 Murder of Walter Lubcke edit After the right wing murder of Walter Lubcke in 2019 Otte questioned the right wing extremist motive of the murderer He criticized the media for an alleged agitation against the political right This led to a number of politicians from the Union and the Value Union to call for Otte leaving the Christian Democratic Union of Germany CDU 63 Otte didn t leave the CDU and became federal president of the Value Union in May 2021 64 Relationship with Alternative for Germany edit Before the 2017 German federal election Otte said he would vote for the Alternative for Germany AfD and argued in favor of a coalition government between the CDU and the AfD 65 In January 2022 Otte became nominee of the AfD for the 2022 German presidential election 8 As a consequence he was expelled from the CDU temporarily and moreover faced expulsion proceedings for a permanent exclusion 9 The proceedings concluded on 3 August 2022 with the expected result of Otte s formal expulsion from the CDU 10 Before being nominated as the AfD candidate for the presidency Max Otte donated at least 30 000 euros to the party like research by NDR and WDR showed AfD party representatives deny a connection to his candidacy 66 67 New Hambach Festival edit nbsp Max Otte at the New Hambach Festival 2018 On 5 May 2018 Otte was the organizer of the New Hambach Festival The event was attended by around 1 200 visitors and various speakers from the right wing populist camp including Jorg Meuthen Thilo Sarrazin and Vera Lengsfeld who wanted to continue the tradition of the Hambach Festival of 1832 68 69 Even before the event Melanie Amann pointed out in Der Spiegel a method in the right wing milieu of claiming historical dates and places for oneself and drawing one s own actions as a logical continuation of the work of heroic role models Otte denied to the magazine that this was an AfD event However he said the AfD is also the only party that openly addresses the basic problem of this country Namely we are witnessing the dismantling of everything we can be proud of 70 The event was held again in 2019 and 2020 71 Memberships editOtte was a member of the CDU from 1991 until his temporary expulsion in January 2022 9 72 The expulsion was made permanent in August 2022 10 He became a member of the Values Union in 2017 and served as its chairman from May 2021 until January 2022 6 73 In 2006 Otte was a founding member of the Center for Value Investing as well as its director and supervisory board 74 According to his website he is also a member of the Atlantik Brucke the German American Business Club Frankfurt and the German Association for Financial Analysis and Asset Management 75 Otte has been serving on the advisory board of the Prussian Society Berlin Brandenburg since 2010 76 77 He is a member of the German Language Association 78 Awards editOtte received the Mont Pelerin Society Award for his 1988 essay Toward an Open World Order This society was founded in 1947 by Friedrich August von Hayek as an association of academics businessmen and journalists Otte is the initiator of the Human Roots Award de which is presented by the Romisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz 79 He was the founding benefactor of the first 2017 prize of 10 000 80 It is an international archaeology prize that was awarded for the first time in 2017 81 Books editA Rising Middle Power edit In his book A Rising Middle Power New York 2000 Max Otte examines German foreign policy in recent years He 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 Alongside a political economic analysis of the power potential of the Federal Republic of Germany the book contains three case studies Germany and European unification introduction of the Euro Germany and military interventions abroad and the eastward enlargement of the EU Ottes surprising conclusion is that whilst Germany s power has grown the demands on the reunified country have grown even more strongly Germany diplomacy continues to be typical of a middle power aiming at reconciliation Thomas Berger described it as a welcome contribution to the growing literature on German foreign policy but criticised inconsistencies in Otte s realist framework and the author not operationalising middle power 82 John Duffield shared Berger s disapproval of Otte s framework calling it insufficiently developed and asserting that Otte s argument comes close to becoming nonfalsifiable He also objected to Otte not engaging with alternative explanations and criticised a number of internal contradictions 83 Investieren statt Sparen edit In his book Investieren statt Sparen Otte describes how private investors can achieve long term wealth creation It is in the interest of the investor to carry out his financial planning personally and not have it performed by a third party Investment is the most important component of long term wealth creation although personal responsibility transparency and availability of reliable financial information as well as patience for the investment horizon are also essential Sound investments also involve taking calculable risks In addition Otte describes the advantage internet offers for carrying out online bank transactions automatically placing orders as well as facilitating communication and exchange of information between investors The effect of doubling private assets is based on the principle of compound interest and the possibility of earning an approx average annual return of 8 10 for example on the DAX The financial objectives are determined by disposable net income the return on investment the investment period and the age of the investor The investment amount is defined as savings minus consumption The highest yields can be obtained from investment in stocks The ownership of stocks makes the investor co owner of a company enabling him to benefit from the economic success of the company s goods and services Successful long term investments by private investors have largely resulted from investment in strong brands and quality organizations such as Coca Cola McDonald s Sony Nestle Procter amp Gamble IBM etc which have been established on the market for a long period of time The value of stocks is based on the present and future earnings of the organization Otte divides stocks into several categories Meisteraktien master stocks internationally renowned companies with global brands such as DaimlerChrysler Coca Cola Siemens Kaufleuteaktien trader stocks large corporations that are currently undervalued with a low price earnings ratio high earnings in spite of low market value Konigsaktien king stocks the world s best mature large corporations and industry leaders that grow less quickly than revolutionary stocks Revolutionarsaktien revolutionary stocks young growing companies with revolutionary innovative ideas such as Google Microsoft Cisco Systems etc and Valueaktien blue chips Der Crash kommt edit After the publication of his book Der Crash kommt Max Otte became more widely known citation needed The book begins with the preface from the first edition in 2006 I can t tell you whether the crash will come in 2008 Perhaps it will come already in 2007 or even later in 2009 or 2010 Human behavior for that is what the outbreak of a major global economic crisis is about cannot be predicted with mathematic precision even if some crisis prophets will always try to do so Some of the strongest indications seem to point to the year 2010 others to the end of 2007 However if I have correctly understood the signals coming from the world economy then it will have to crash and with an enormous impact Max Otte Otte sees himself as a political economist in the tradition of Friedrich List Karl Marx Max Weber Werner Sombart Alexander Rustow and Wilhelm Ropke and is inspired by the Austrian school of economic thought clarification needed Otte accurately forecast that the U S property market and subprime securities would spark the crisis He believes that there are several causes of the crisis the rise in debt since the beginning of the neo liberal revolution at the beginning of the 80s in particular in the USA the excessive growth in financial assets deregulation and relaxed monetary policy the shift in the center of the world economy excessive globalization the deterioration in economic practices partly caused by financial derivatives demographic challengesMoreover Otte emphasizes that financial crises are not unusual in capitalism however the majority of economists are reluctant to analyse them In the last two chapters of the book Otte gives investment tips Publications selection editMonographs edit Otte Max 1996 Amerika fur Geschaftsleute Das Einmaleins der ungeschriebenen Regeln America for business people The basics of the unwritten rules in German Frankfurt am Main Campus Verlag ISBN 3 593 35592 2 Otte Max 1988 The United States Japan West Germany and Europe in the international economy 1977 1987 Between conflict and coordination Idstein Schulz Kirchner ISBN 3 925196 67 6 Otte Max 2006 Der Crash kommt Die neue Weltwirtschaftskrise und wie Sie sich darauf vorbereiten The crash is coming The new global economic crisis and how to prepare for it in German Berlin Econ Verlag ISBN 3 430 20001 6 Otte Max 2009 Der Informationscrash Wie wir systematisch fur dumm verkauft werden The Information Crash How we are systematically taken for fools in German Berlin Econ Verlag ISBN 978 3 430 20078 3 Otte Max 2011 Stoppt das Euro Desaster Stop the Euro Disaster in German Berlin Ullstein Verlag ISBN 978 3 550 08896 4 Otte Max 2012 Endlich mit Aktien Geld verdienen Die Strategien und Techniken die Erfolg versprechen Earn money with shares at last The strategies and techniques that promise success in German Munchen FinanzBuch Verlag ISBN 978 3 89879 631 6 Otte Max 2016 Rettet unser Bargeld Save our cash in German Berlin Ullstein Verlag ISBN 978 3 550 08158 3 Otte Max 2016 Investieren statt sparen Anlegen in Zeiten von Niedrigzinsen Bargeldverbot und Brexit Investing instead of saving Investing in times of low interest rates cash bans and Brexit in German Berlin Econ Verlag ISBN 978 3 430 20225 1 Otte Max 2019 Die Finanzmarkte und die okonomische Selbstbehauptung Europas Gedanken zu Finanzkrisen Marktwirtschaft und Unternehmertum The financial markets and the economic self assertion of Europe Thoughts on financial crises market economy and entrepreneurship in German Wiesbaden Springer Gabler ISBN 978 3 658 23178 1 Otte Max 2020 Weltsystemcrash Krisen Unruhen und die Geburt einer neuen Weltordnung World System Crash Crises unrest and the birth of a new world order in German Munchen FinanzBuch Verlag ISBN 978 3 95972 282 7 Otte Max 2021 Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Deutschland Notizen aus einer anderen Zeit In Search of the Lost Germany Notes from Another Time in German Munchen FinanzBuch Verlag p 288 ISBN 978 3959724036 Editions publisher co editor or co worker edit Mackay Charles Vega Joseph de la 2010 Otte Max ed Gier und Wahnsinn Warum der Crash immer wieder kommt Greed and madness Why the crash always comes back in German Munchen FinanzBuch Verlag ISBN 978 3 89879 560 9 Fergusson Adam 2011 Otte Max ed Hyperinflation und ihre Folgen am Beispiel der Weimarer Republik The end of money hyperinflation and its consequences using the example of the Weimar Republic in German FinanzBuch Verlag ISBN 978 3 89879 627 9 Brandeis Louis D 2012 Otte Max ed Das Geld der Anderen Wie die Banker uns ausnehmen Other people s money How the bankers are fleecing us in German Munchen FinanzBuch Verlag ISBN 978 3 89879 679 8 Otte Max Steinbach Erika eds 2018 Nachdenken fur Deutschland Wie wir die Zukunft unseres Landes sichern konnen Thinking for Germany How we can secure the future of our country Schriftenreihe der Desiderius Erasmus Stiftung in German Ludinghausen Berlin Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung ISBN 978 3 944872 89 6 Otte Max Engels David Thondl Michael eds 2018 Der lange Schatten Oswald Spenglers Hundert Jahre Untergang des Abendlandes The Long Shadow of Oswald Spengler One Hundred Years of the Decline of the Occident in German Ludinghausen Berlin Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhaltung ISBN 978 3 944872 71 1 Otte Max Houellebecq Michel Engels David Morgenthaler Gerd eds 2019 Michel Houellebecq Oswald Spengler und der Untergang des Abendlandes Reden anlasslich der Verleihung des Oswald Spengel Preises an Michael Houellebecq in Brussel am 19 Oktober 2018 Michel Houellebecq Oswald Spengler and the Fall of the Occident Speeches on the occasion of the award of the Oswald Spengler Prize to Michael Houellebecq in Brussels on 19 October 2018 in German Ludinghausen Berlin Edition Sonderwege Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhaltung ISBN 978 3 944872 91 9 Essays edit Otte Max 11 January 1999 Die Unternehmenskultur entscheidet uber den Erfolg von Fusionen Corporate culture determines the success of mergers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in German Otte Max 2000 The New Atlantic Century Harvard Business Review pp 2 3 Otte Max 2011 Ziegler Dieter ed Die Finanzkrise die Okonomen der Crashprophet und die Wissenschaft von der Okonomie The financial crisis economists the crash prophet and the science of economics Jahrbuch fur Wirtschaftsgeschichte in German Berlin Verlag Walter de Gruyter pp 191 217 Other edit Otte Max 2003 Otte Max ed Der Privatinvestor The private investor in German Koln Institut fur Vermogensentwicklung IFVE a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a work ignored help Otte Max 27 May 2020 Otte Max ed Neustart fur die Wirtschaft in Deutschland und Europa A new start for the economy in Germany and Europe PDF in German Deutscher Bundestag a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a work ignored help References edit Narat Ingo 13 February 2018 Die Hoffnung des Crash Propheten The hope of the crash prophet Handelsblatt in German Reim Martin 27 March 2009 Bestsellerautor Max Otte rat zum Borseneinstieg Bestselling author Max Otte advises to enter the stock market Financial Times Deutschland in German Taschenbuch Bestseller Der Weltunterganger Der Spiegel in German 27 May 2008 Retrieved 6 August 2021 Denis Scheck kommentiert die Top Ten Sachbuch Denis Scheck comments on the top ten non fiction books daserste de in German 24 November 2019 Retrieved 6 August 2021 AfD CDU will Otte wegen Kandidatur fur Bundesprasidentenamt ausschliessen www handelsblatt com in German Retrieved 26 January 2022 a b Werteunion Max Otte die CDU und die AfD Deutschlandfunk in German Retrieved 26 January 2022 tagesschau de Otte stellt Bedingung fur Aufgabe seiner Kandidatur tagesschau de in German Retrieved 26 January 2022 a b Welle www dw com Deutsche Germany s far right AfD names member of CDU as presidential candidate DW 25 January 2022 DW COM Retrieved 25 January 2022 a b c d tagesschau de Parteivorstand Otte wird vorlaufig aus der CDU ausgeschlossen tagesschau de in German Retrieved 26 January 2022 a b c Parteischadigendes Verhalten Max Otte nach AfD Engagement aus der CDU ausgeschlossen Der Spiegel in German 3 August 2022 Retrieved 4 August 2022 Maus Bernd 13 February 2011 Heimspiel in Ohle fur Finanzexperten Otte www derwesten de in German Retrieved 31 May 2021 Horst Hassel Max Otte Plettenberg Lexikon in German Retrieved 3 August 2020 Otte Max 1997 A rising middle power German foreign policy in transformation 1988 1995 Amerika fur Geschaftsleute Das Einmaleins der ungeschriebenen Regeln ASIN 3593355922 Max Otte Folge 332 Jung amp Naiv in German 8 October 2017 Retrieved 31 May 2021 READER Jahreskonferenz 2010 von Netzwerk Recherche PDF Max Otte will weniger Professor und mehr Warren Buffett sein www fondsprofessionell de in German 27 January 2016 Retrieved 31 May 2021 Visitenkarte von Otte Matthias Univ Prof Dipl Vw MA Ph D UNIGRAZonline Karl Franzens Universitat Graz 1 March 2016 Archived from the original on 1 March 2016 Retrieved 31 May 2021 Diskussion um Promi Fonds Kritik Max Otte Stolz bin ich nicht Wachtendorf mea culpa www dasinvestment com in German 27 December 2016 Retrieved 31 May 2021 Possibilities to handle the debt crisis of Greece and other European countries in Wirtschaftsdienst 2010 3 Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Deutschland Notizen aus einer anderen Zeit Vera Lengsfeld in German 28 March 2021 Retrieved 31 May 2021 Buchkomplizen Max Otte Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Deutschland buchkomplizen de in German Retrieved 31 May 2021 Martin Reim 27 March 2009 Bestsellerautor Max Otte rat zum Borseneinstieg Financial Times Deutschland in German p 23 Taschenbuch Bestseller Der Weltunterganger Der Spiegel in German 27 May 2008 Denis Scheck kommentiert die Top Ten Sachbuch ARD das Erste in German 24 November 2019 Max Otte WirtschaftsWoche a b Peter Nowak 8 November 2008 Zwischen Karl Marx und Max Otte Telepolis a b Joachim Wille 1 November 2008 Wirtschaftsprofessor Der Crash Prophet Frankfurter Rundschau in German a b Kerstin Kohlenberg Wolfgang Uchatius 27 November 2008 Wo ist das Geld geblieben Die Zeit Okonom Otte Stoppt das Euro Desaster Kurier 5 December 2011 Professor Max Otte spricht uber die Euro Krise Merkur de 7 February 2012 Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Deutschland Prof Max Otte Der Nachrichtenspiegel 4 April 2021 GmbH finanzen net 21 December 2016 Max Otte Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckeninvestors www boerse online de in German Retrieved 31 May 2021 Finanzwissenschaftler erwartet steigende Zinsen in USA Deutschlandfunk in 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in German Retrieved 6 August 2021 Max Otte 2010 Volks und Raiffeisenbanken als Stabilitatsfaktoer in Wirtschaftskrisen Eine polit und institutionenokonomische Perspektive Zeitschrift fur das gesamte Genossenschaftswesen ZFGG in German no 2 pp 89 ff archived from the original on 22 February 2014 retrieved 20 July 2020 Max Otte 2009 Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung ed Die Finanzkrise und das Versagen der modernen Okonomie Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte APuZ in German no 52 retrieved 20 July 2020 Transaktionssteuer umstritten Deutscher Bundestag 17 May 2010 Andreas Toller 27 December 2016 Wie die DDR im Endstadium WirtschaftsWoche Interview Christine Heuer 14 October 2014 Lage ist so ernst wie seit Jahrzehnten nicht Deutschlandfunk Dirk Muller 8 March 2010 Eigenkapital ist der Schlussel zu allem Deutschlandfunk Interview Helmut Achatz 6 October 2011 Crash Professor Otte Privatanleger haben die Schnauze voll Focus Ute Welty 23 July 2010 Finanzexperte Fast alle deutschen Banken durften Stresstest bestehen Deutschlandfunk Kultur Interview Julia Bauman 25 August 2017 Attac diskutiert Konzepte fur ein anderes Wirtschaftssystem Schwabische Zeitung Dirk Augustin 24 August 2017 Attac gehen die Protestler aus Schwabische Zeitung Matthias Iken 14 April 2018 In Deutschland regiert die Feigheit vor dem Streit Hamburger Abendblatt Gemeinsame Erklarungen und Entstorungen Borsenblatt 20 March 2018 The Society oswaldspenglersociety com Axel Ruth 21 October 2018 Houellebecq amp Spengler Gebarmutter als Hoffnung fur das Abendland Die Welt Michel Houellebecq 20 October 2018 Wie man nicht ausstirbt Die Welt Walter Scheidel PDF Stanford University Fratzscher Marcel 27 December 2019 Finanzkrise Was an den Argumenten der Crash Propheten dran ist Der Spiegel in German ISSN 2195 1349 Retrieved 28 January 2022 a b Blume Michael 17 April 2021 Die libertare Verschworungsmythologie des Geldes Zeit Online Retrieved 26 January 2022 Lucker Markus 20 June 2019 CDU soll Max Otte nach Lubcke Tweet ausschliessen Der Tagesspiegel Online in German ISSN 1865 2263 Retrieved 28 January 2022 Werteunion Max Otte die CDU und die AfD Deutschlandfunk in German Retrieved 28 January 2022 Orde Sabine am 14 February 2020 Die Werteunion nach Thuringen Die Bruckenschlager Die Tageszeitung taz in German ISSN 0931 9085 Retrieved 28 January 2022 Parteispende Max Otte 20 000 Euro an AfD Kreisverband Gorlitz www zeit de Retrieved 3 February 2022 tagesschau de Vor der AfD Nominierung Otte spendete 30 000 Euro tagesschau de in German Retrieved 3 February 2022 Serrao Marc Felix 6 May 2018 Ein Fest fur die Teilung Deutschlands A celebration of the division of Germany Neue Zurcher Zeitung in German Retrieved 3 March 2021 Neues Hambacher Fest New Hambach Festival in German Retrieved 3 March 2021 Amann Melanie 23 April 2018 Wie sich das AfD Milieu die deutsche Geschichte zurechtbiegt How the AfD milieu bends German history to suit itself Der Spiegel in German Retrieved 3 March 2021 Politik Neues Hambacher Fest findet zum dritten Mal statt Politics New Hambach Festival takes place for the third time Mannheimer Morgen in German 10 July 2020 Retrieved 3 March 2021 Streckmann Carolin 2 June 2021 Debatte um AfD Nahe Werte Union Chef Otte felsenfest und bombenfest CDU Mitglied RP ONLINE in German Retrieved 30 June 2021 Schieritz Mark 11 October 2017 Ottes Welt Otto s World Zeit in German Retrieved 19 March 2021 Borse Online kooperiert mit Zentrum fur Value Investing e V Borse Online cooperates with Center for Value Investing e V Business Echo de in German 14 April 2011 Retrieved 19 March 2021 Lebenslauf Max Otte in German Retrieved 30 January 2022 Monatsbrief Dezember 2010 Monthly Letter December 2010 PDF in German December 2010 Retrieved 19 March 2021 Vorstand Beirat www preussen org Retrieved 30 January 2022 Bekannte VDS Mitglieder Well known VDS members in German Retrieved 19 March 2021 Human Roots Award an den Evolutionsbiologen Richard Dawkins uberreicht web rgzm de in German Retrieved 30 June 2021 Human Roots Award an den Evolutionsbiologen Richard Dawkins uberreicht Human Roots Award presented to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins PDF Romisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum in German 21 November 2017 Retrieved 19 March 2021 Neuer Archaologiepreis an Evolutionsbiologen Dawkins New archaeology prize awarded to evolutionary biologist Dawkins Focus in German 6 November 2017 Retrieved 19 March 2021 Berger Thomas 2001 Review of A Rising Middle Power German Foreign Policy in Transformation 1989 1999 The American Political Science Review 95 3 769 770 doi 10 1017 S0003055400500550 ISSN 0003 0554 JSTOR 3118299 S2CID 146529520 Duffield John S 2001 Review of A Rising Middle Power German Foreign Policy in Transformation 1989 1999 Political Science Quarterly 116 3 473 474 doi 10 2307 798039 ISSN 0032 3195 JSTOR 798039 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Max Otte Literature by and about Max Otte in the German National Library catalogue Lebenslauf CV on 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