Enrique Otte (1923–2006)

Enrique Otte was born in Madrid in 1923, Otte grew up in Berlin but took refuge in Spain in the 1940s and became a Spanish citizen. After spending a few years in England and Germany, he returned to Spain in 1949 and studied law at the University of Seville. In 1953 he began his doctoral studies with Ramón Carande, earning his doctorate from the University of Madrid in 1961. In 1966 he started teaching at the Free University of Berlin, retiring in 1984. He died in September 2006.