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Otto is a given name of Germanic origin meaning wealthy.

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Given name[link]

• Otto (mayor of the palace) (died 643 or 644), mayor of the palace of Austrasia briefly in the mid-7th century
• Otto I, Duke of Saxony
• the Ottonian dynasty
  • Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)
  • Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955-983)
  • Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980-1002)
• Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175/1176-1218)
• Otto Dowling (1881-1946), 25th Governor of American Samoa
• Otto of Freising (c. 1114-1158), bishop and chronicler
• Otto of Greece (1815-1867), King of Greece
• Otto of Driebruggen (1994-2087), King of Driebruggen and BTO
• Otto of Bavaria (1848-1916), King of Bavaria
• Otto Adler, president of the Jewish Association of Romania
• Otto Frank (1889–1980), father of Anne Frank
• Otto Freundlich (1878 1943), German painter and sculptor
• Otto Graham (1921-2003), professional American football and basketball player
• Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926-2009), German politician
• Otto Grotewohl (1894-1964), East German politician
• Otto Herschmann (1877–1942), Austrian Olympic fencing and swimming medalist^[1]
• Otto Klemperer (1885-1973), German-born conductor and composer
• Otto Lilienthal, German aviator
• Otto Peterson, American comedian (Otto & George ventriloquism act)
• Otto Plath (1885-1940), father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist
• Otto Preminger (1905-1986), Austro–Hungarian-born American film director
• Otto Rehhagel, German football coach
• Otto Scheff, Austrian Olympic swimming champion
• Otto Schmitt (field hockey), Argentine field hockey goalkeeper
• Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975), Austrian-born Waffen-SS commando
• Otto Soglow, American cartoonist
• Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck (1897-1975), German politician and diplomat
• Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian/German statesman
• Otto von Habsburg (1912-2011), head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine from 1922 to 2007
• Otto Waalkes (born 1948), German comedian and actor
• Otto Wahle (1879-1963), Austrian-born American Olympic swimming medalist and Hall of Fame
• Otto Dix (1891-1969), German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war.

Fictional characters[link]

• Otto Flick, a character in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
• Otto Maddox, a character in the movie Repo Man, played by Emilio Estevez.
• Otto Mann, character on the animated TV series The Simpsons.
• Otto Meyer, a character in the 1963 movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, played by Phil Silvers.
• Otto Normalverbraucher, a home coming soldier in a 1948 movie played by Gert Fröbe, is used in German to denote the average consumer (literally) or the small man on the street
• Otto Octavius, fictional Marvel Comics supervillain otherwise known as Doctor Octopus. One of Spider-Man's nemeses.
• Otto Rocket, the main character of Nickelodeon's Rocket Power.
• Otto the Dog, a dog belonging to one of the characters in the comic strip Beetle Bailey.
• Otto the Gorilla, Dr Satan's fretful right hand man in Rob Zombie's satire comedy The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
• Otto the Autopilot, the blow-up autopilot doll in Airplane! (1980)
• Otto West, a character in the 1988 movie A Fish Called Wanda.

Animals[link]

• Otto (dog) (1989-2010), world's oldest dog
• Otocinclus - Sucking catfish, often known as 'Otto'.

Company[link]

• Otto GmbH, a German mail-order company, also called the Otto Group
• Otto Group, a German waste-management company

See also[link]

• Operation Otto (1938), Nazi Germany's plan for the annexation of Austria
• Operation Otto, Axis powers anti-partisan operation in Croatia in 1943
• MV Otto, a German coaster

References[link]

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Otto Waalkes
Born	Otto Gerhard Waalkes (1948-07-22) 22 July 1948 (age 63) Emden
Occupation	comedian, actor
Website
www.otto-waalkes.com

Otto Waalkes live (2005)

Otto Gerhard Waalkes (born 22 July 1948 in Emden, Germany) is a Frisian comedian and actor. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and movies. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his own design. They featured on the cover of his first album release.^[1]

He shares a close friendship with tennis player Steffi Graf, who also makes an appearance in the movie Otto - Der Außerfriesische. He has one child ("Benjamin Karl Otto Grigori Waalkes") with his first wife Manuela Ebelt, and was later married to actress Eva Hassmann until November 2011,^[2] who co-starred with him in Otto - Der Katastrophenfilm.

Discography[link]

Filmography[link]

• Otto – Der Film ('Otto – The Film') (1985)
• Otto – Der neue Film ('Otto - The New Film') (1987)
• Otto – Der Außerfriesische ('Otto - The Outer-Frisian') (1989)
• Otto – Der Liebesfilm ('Otto – The Romance film) (1992)
• St. Pauli Nacht ('St. Pauli Night') by Sönke Wortmann (1999)
• Otto – Der Katastrophenfilm ('Otto - The Disaster film') (2000)
• 7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald ('7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood') (2004)
• 7 Zwerge – Der Wald ist nicht genug ('7 Dwarfs – The Wood Is Not Enough') (2006)
• Otto's Eleven (2010)

See also[link]

• German television comedy

References[link]

External links[link]

• (German) Official website
• Otto Waalkes at the Internet Movie Database
• (German) Website dedicated to Otto's Ottiphants

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Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust, he inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, arranged for the publication of her diary in 1947, and oversaw its translation to the stage and screen.

Early life[link]

Frank was born in Frankfurt. He was the second son of Michael Frank and Alice Stern Frank. His siblings were Robert Frank, Helene (Leni) Frank, and Herbert Frank. Otto was a cousin of the well known furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank, and a grandson of Zacharias Frank. Frank served in the German army as an officer during the First World War. He worked in the bank his family ran until it collapsed in the early 1930s. He married Edith Holländer—an heiress to a scrap-metal and industrial-supply business—on 12 May 1925 in Frankfurt, and their first daughter, Margot Betti, was born on 16 February 1926, followed by Anne (Annelies Marie) on 12 June 1929.^[2]

World War II[link]

As the tide of Nazism rose in Germany and anti-Jewish decrees encouraged attacks on Jewish individuals and families, Frank decided to evacuate his family to the safer western nations of Europe. In August 1933 he moved his family to Aachen, where his wife's mother resided, in preparation for a subsequent and final move to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. There he started a company, Opekta, that sold spices and pectin for use in the manufacture of jam. After Germany invaded Holland in May 1940, Otto made his business look "Aryan" by transferring control to non-Jews.

In 1938 and 1941, Frank attempted to obtain visas for his family to emigrate to the United States or Cuba. He was granted a single visa for himself to Cuba on 1 December 1941, but no one knows if it ever reached him. Ten days later, when Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy declared war on the United States, the visa was canceled by Havana.^[3][4]

Otto Frank took his family into hiding on 6 July 1942 in the upper rear rooms of the Opekta premises on the Prinsengracht. They were joined a week later by Hermann van Pels, who was known as Herman van Daan in Anne's diary, and his wife and son, and in November by Fritz Pfeffer, also known in Anne's diary as Mr. Dussel. Their concealment was aided by Otto Frank's colleagues Johannes Kleiman, whom he had known since 1923, Miep Gies, Victor Kugler, and Bep Voskuijl.

They were concealed for two years, until they were betrayed by an anonymous informant in August 1944. Frank, his family, the four people he hid with, and Kugler and Kleiman were arrested by SS Officer Karl Silberbauer. After being imprisoned in Amsterdam, the Jewish prisoners were sent to the Dutch transit camp of Westerbork and finally to Auschwitz. It was here, in September, that Frank was separated forever from his wife and daughters. He was sent to the men's barracks and found himself in the sick barracks when he was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. He travelled back to the Netherlands over the next six months and set about tracing his arrested family and friends. By the end of 1945, he knew he was the sole survivor of the family, and of those who had hidden in the house on the Prinsengracht.

Post-war life[link]

After Anne Frank's death was confirmed in the summer of 1945, her diary and papers were given to Otto Frank by Miep Gies, who had rescued them from the ransacked hiding place. He left them unread for some time but eventually began transcribing them from Dutch for his relatives in Switzerland. He was persuaded that Anne's writing shed light into the experiences of many of those who suffered persecution under Nazis and was urged to consider publishing it. He typed out the diary papers into a single manuscript and edited out sections he thought too personal to his family or too mundane to be of interest to the general reader. The manuscript was read by Dutch historian Jan Romein, who reviewed it on 3 April 1946, for the Het Parool newspaper. This attracted the interest of Amsterdam's Contact Publishing, and in the summer of 1946, they accepted it for publication.

On 25 June 1947, the first Dutch edition of the diary was issued under the title Het Achterhuis (meaning literally: "the back house"). Its success led to an English translation in 1952, which subsequently led to a theatrical dramatisation and a cinematic version.

Otto Frank married a former neighbor from Amsterdam and fellow Auschwitz survivor, Elfriede Geiringer (1905–1998), in Amsterdam on 10 November 1953, and both moved to Basel, Switzerland, where he had family, including children with which he shared his experiences.

In response to a demolition order placed on the building in which Otto Frank and his family had hidden during the war, he and Johannes Kleiman helped establish the Anne Frank Foundation on 3 May 1957, with the principal aim of saving and restoring the building, to allow it to be opened to the general public. With the aid of public donations, the building (and its adjacent neighbour) was purchased by the Foundation. It opened as a museum (the Anne Frank House) on 3 May 1960, and it can still be visited today. Otto Frank died of lung cancer on 19 August 1980 in Basel.^[5]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank ISBN 0-553-29698-1
• Anne Frank Remembered, Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold ISBN 0-671-66234-1
• The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, Carol Ann Lee ISBN 0-670-91331-6
• Roses from the Earth: the biography of Anne Frank, Carol Ann Lee ISBN 0-670-88140-6
• Love, Otto, Cara Wilson ISBN 0-8362-7032-0
• Eva's Story, Eva Schloss ISBN 0-9523716-9-3

External links[link]

• Profile of Otto Frank's early life, written by the Anne Frank House
• Otto Frank during World War One, written by the Anne Frank House
• Article about Otto Frank and the opening of the Anne Frank House
• BBC video interview with Otto Frank in 1976 (requires Realplayer)
• Video interview with Otto Frank's second wife (Requires Quicktime)
• Short article about Otto Frank's last years, with a photo taken in 1979
• Otto Frank Returns

James Otto
Background information
Birth name	James Allen Otto
Born	(1973-07-29) July 29, 1973 (age 38)
Origin	Fort Lewis, Washington, USA
Genres	Country
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals Rhythm guitar
Years active	2002-present
Labels	Mercury Nashville Warner Bros. Nashville
Associated acts	Big & Rich Jay DeMarcus Jamey Johnson
Website	Official website

James Allen Otto (born July 29, 1973) is an American country music artist who is a member of the MuzikMafia, a group of country musicians known for their "country music without prejudice". Otto began his career on Mercury Nashville Records in 2002, charting three minor singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and recording his debut album Days of Our Lives for the label before being dropped in 2004.

In late 2007, he signed to Warner Bros. Records. His second album, Sunset Man, was released in April 2008. It was produced by John Rich (of Big & Rich) and Jay DeMarcus (of Rascal Flatts), the latter of whom is Otto's brother-in-law. The lead-off single to Sunset Man, "Just Got Started Lovin' You", became Otto's first Number One hit, as well as the Number One country single of 2008 according to Billboard.

Biography[link]

James Otto was born on July 29, 1973 on the Fort Lewis Army Base in the state of Washington.^[1] He first took up singing at age two and later learned to play violin and saxophone. However, he wanted to learn to play guitar as well, and at age thirteen, he received a guitar for his birthday.^[1]

He traveled throughout the country for most of his childhood, but his family finally settled in the small town of Benton City, Washington. After graduating from Kiona-Benton High School, Otto joined the United States Navy, where he served for two years.^[1] In 1998, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and began attending songwriters' nights there; three years later, he joined the MuzikMafia, a group of country music songwriters which includes Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson.

Otto married Amy Alderson in October 2005. Amy gave birth to their first child, Ava Katherine, who weighed 8 lbs. 2oz. on August 24, 2010.^[2]

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In 2002, Otto met Scott Parker of Mercury Nashville Records, who signed him to a record deal that year.^[1] His first single, "The Ball", peaked at #45 on the Billboard country charts, while a second single, "Long Way Down", failed to chart at all. Due to the poor chart performance of these singles, Otto's debut album was delayed. "Days of Our Lives", his third release for the label, was released in late 2003, peaking at #33 on the country charts.^[3] Shortly after the song peaked, his debut album (also entitled Days of Our Lives) was released on Mercury, and in 2004, Otto was signed as an opening act for Shania Twain on her Up! Tour.^[1] His fourth single for Mercury, "Sunday Morning and Saturday Night", peaked at #58. After the song fell from the charts, Otto exited Mercury's roster. From there, he began working with the MuzikMafia, a gathering of singer-songwriters founded by Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson and Cowboy Troy. Otto co-wrote songs and sang background vocals on two of Cowboy Troy's albums: Loco Motive and Black in the Saddle, released in 2005 and early 2007, respectively.

[edit] Sunset Man

By mid-2007, Otto signed to Warner Bros. Records Nashville. His first single for the label, "Just Got Started Lovin' You", was released at the end of that year as the lead-off single to his second album, Sunset Man. The album was co-produced by Otto's brother-in-law, Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts, along with Big & Rich's John Rich.^[4] Sunset Man peaked at #2 on Top Country Albums upon its April release. "Just Got Started Lovin' You" reached Number One on the Hot Country Songs charts a month later, becoming the highest-charting single of his career^[5] as well as the Number One country single of 2008 according to the Billboard Year-End charts. The album's other two singles — "For You" and "These Are the Good Ole Days" — did not perform as well on the charts, peaking at #39 and #36 in September 2008 and March 2009, respectively.

In mid-2008, Otto was commissioned to perform a new theme song for the Atlanta Braves, entitled "The Braves Play Here," composed by Greg Barnhill and Randy Wachtler for 615 Music.^[6] He also co-wrote Jamey Johnson's mid-2008 single "In Color" with Johnson and Lee Thomas Miller. This song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Song at the 2008 Grammy Awards, and received the 2008 Academy of Country Music award for Song of the Year, which is awarded to the songwriters.

[edit] Shake What God Gave Ya

Otto released a non-album single, "Since You Brought It Up", in April 2009. It peaked at 37 by July of the same year. The song was followed by "Groovy Little Summer Song" in early 2010. This song is the lead-off single from Otto's third album, Shake What God Gave Ya, which is produced by Paul Worley and was released on September 14, 2010. The album's second single, "Soldiers & Jesus", was released to country radio on September 7, 2010.

Otto also performed backing vocals on the original album cut of the song "Chicken & Biscuits", performed by country rap artist Colt Ford on his 2010 album of the same name. The single version, however, features Rhean Boyer of Carolina Rain in place of Otto singing on backup.

In March 2011, Otto announced on his Twitter that he had exited Warner Bros. Records.^[7]

Otto co-wrote Zac Brown Band's 2012 single "No Hurry".

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Singles[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• James Otto on Myspace