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Jutta Ditfurth as a talk show guest in 2011

Jutta Ditfurth (born 29 September 1951 in Würzburg, Germany) is a German social scientist, pundit and politician. An original member of the German Green Party, she was one of the party's three equally empowered unsalaried spokespersons from 1984 till 1989.

Biography

Jutta Ditfurth was born on 29. September 1951 as the first child of the physician and scientific journalist Hoimar von Ditfurth and the photographer Heilwig von Raven. Her full legal name is Jutta Gerta Armgard von Ditfurth. Her brother Christian von Ditfurth is a historian and author. Although her attempt in 1978 to have her last name changed failed, she is generally known as just Jutta Ditfurth. In an interview with the German magazine Stern, she explained that when she was 18 she rejected membership in a German nobility association.

Jutta Ditfurth studied sociology, politics, art history, economic history and philosophy in Heidelberg, Hamburg, Freiburg, Glasgow, Detroit and Bielefeld. In 1977 she received her Diplom in sociology and moved to Frankfurt, where she became a journalist and author.

In 1991 she left the Green Party due to disagreements about its course.

References

• Die Grünen kommen Jutta Ditfurth heute vor wie "ein anderes Leben". AP 2007-11-15.
• Terroristen ausmisten. Spiegel Online. 2007-11-20.