Jan Dittrich

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Jan Dittrich (born October 22, 1976 in Darmstadt , Germany ) is a former German politician and member of the FDP .

Dittrich graduated in 1996 at the Ludwig George High School in his hometown of Darmstadt , the High School . After his military service in Mainz , he returned to Darmstadt and studied industrial engineering at the local Technical University from 1997 to 2000 . From 2000 to 2005 he finally studied political science, economics and law and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . He then completed a Master of Business Administration in Berlin and London .

Dittrich was a member of the Young Liberals from 1993 to 2011 and has been a member of the FDP since 1998. From March 19, 2004 to March 4, 2005 he was Federal Chairman of the Young Liberals. On March 2, 2005, Dittrich formulated polemical theses about the relationship between the generations in a press release on the second report on poverty by the federal government , which made it onto the front page of the Bild newspaper under the heading “Old people, give up the spoon” . He demanded: “It is time for the old to give away some of their silverware - a spoon or, better still, a couple of it”, and that “the old should no longer live at the expense of the young”. Thereupon Dittrich was heavily criticized from all political directions - also from his own association - and resigned from his office shortly afterwards. The strong inner-party criticism is in the context of the then charged mood in society because of the dismantling of the welfare state ( Hartz reforms and Agenda 2010 ) and the perception and stylization of the FDP by political opponents as a neoliberal party of "social cold", whom Dittrich with this Expression played into the hands. Dittrich's concern to emphasize the generational equity in the discussion of the distribution of the shrinking social spending, was - after Philipp Mißfelder with a similar provocative statement to in 2003 become known was - controversially discussed below.

After retiring from politics, Dittrich worked for a management consultancy in the financial sector. Today he works as an assistant to Klaus-Peter Müller , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Commerzbank .

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  1. a b Udo Leuschner : The history of the FDP. Metamorphoses of a party between right, social liberal and neoconservative. (= Edition Octopus. ) Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-86582-166-9, p. 379 f .
  2. ^ After a derogatory remark about seniors. JuLi boss Dittrich resigns. In: Rheinische Post Online , March 4, 2005.
  3. Arno Frank : Give up snot spoon. In: the daily newspaper , March 5, 2005.
  4. ^ On this perception in the 2005 election year Teresa Nentwig, Christian Werwath: Die FDP. It is well known that the dead live longer. In: Felix Butzlaff, Stine Harm, Franz Walter (eds.): Stalemate or tide change? Germany 2009. (= Göttingen Studies on Party Research . ) VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16203-4 , pp. 95–128, here p. 110 .
  5. Christoph Butterwegge : Intergenerational Justice - Political Battle Concept or Meaningful New Interpretation of the Social Question? Critical comments on a core aspect of the current justice discourse in Germany. In: Alexander Grasse , Carmen Ludwig, Berthold Dietz (eds.): Social justice. Reform policy at a crossroads. Festschrift for Dieter Eißel for his 65th birthday. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-15021-5 , pp. 117–128, here pp. 119–121 .