Duffel potatoes
Düffeldoffel (also written as Düffel-Doffel ) is a pejorative made-up word coined by the SPD politician Herbert Wehner .
Emergence
The word came during a parliamentary debate in March 1980, as a speaker Herbert Wehner by the then Presidents of CDU , Helmut Kohl during his speech was interrupted.
"Now let me finish, you duffel-doffel!"
The exact meaning of the word and Wehner's intention are unclear. A duffel used to refer to a thick woolen cloth, derived from the English word duffle (the duffle coat is also known as the duffel coat ), so it could have been an onomatopoeic allusion to a presumed thick skin or stuffiness of Kohl.
reception
The "Düffeldoffel" is a prime example of Wehner's eloquent rhetoric and attacks on his parliamentary colleagues, which earned him the reputation of "the greatest rascal in the whole Bundestag". In later analyzes and reports on the mood and culture of debate in the Bundestag, this word creation was repeatedly highlighted as an example.
The Altmark SPD district associations have been awarding the Düffeldoffel as a carnival medal since 2010 as part of the political Ash Wednesday .
literature
- Jürgen Roth: You duffel here! Herbert Wehner - a strange saint. Audiobook, Kunstmann, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stenographic report on the 208th session of the German Bundestag, p. 16666 A.
- ↑ Grimm: German Dictionary . Volume 2, Hirzel, 1860, p. 598
- ^ With foil and mallet ( Memento from January 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Text archive of the German Bundestag
- ↑ Soup chickens and duffel doffel . FOCUS No. 13 (1993), March 29, 1993
- ↑ From "Armleuchter" to "Pimp" Small swear dictionary of the Bundestag . Spiegel online, June 30, 1999
- ↑ Political abuse, aesthetic nostalgia . Sueddeutsche, July 27, 2005
- ↑ Washing up of the week: you duffel here! . Stern online, February 6, 2010
- ↑ The first “Düffeldoffel” went to Jürgen Schlafke . Altmark newspaper February 19, 2010