abstract:Otto Dietrich (August 31, 1897 - November 22, 1952) was an SS-Obergruppenführer, the Third Reich's Press Chief, and a confidant of Adolf Hitler.
And with some senior liberals like Count Otto Lambsdorff, an ex-economics minister, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, an ex-foreign minister, not standing for the next parliament, many pundits expect the party to sink first into irrelevance and then oblivion.