Boris Dittrich

Boris Dittrich
Dittrich in 2007
Member of the Senate
Assumed office
11 June 2019
Leader of the Democrats 66
In office
22 January 2003 – 3 February 2006
Preceded byThom de Graaf
Succeeded byAlexander Pechtold
Leader of the Democrats 66 in the
House of Representatives
In office
22 January 2003 – 3 February 2006
Preceded byThom de Graaf
Succeeded byLousewies van der Laan
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
17 May 1994 – 30 November 2006
Personal details
Born
Boris Ottokar Dittrich

(1955-07-21) 21 July 1955 (age 69)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Political partyDemocrats 66 (since 1981)
Spouse
(m. 2006)
ResidenceAmsterdam
Alma materLeiden University (Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws)
OccupationPolitician · Jurist · Lawyer · Judge · Activist · Political pundit · Author · Professor

Boris Ottokar Dittrich (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈboːrɪz ˈditrix];[a] born 21 July 1955) is a Dutch politician, jurist, author and human rights activist who served as Leader of the Democrats 66 (D66) from 2003 to 2006. A former member of the House of Representatives (1994–2006), he has been a member of the Senate since 2019.[1]

Dittrich's father came to the Netherlands as a political asylum seeker from Czechoslovakia in 1948; he became a professor in Eastern European history at Utrecht University. Boris Dittrich grew up in Utrecht and went to law school at Leiden University, working as a lawyer in Amsterdam from 1981 until 1989 and later as a judge in the district court of Alkmaar from 1989 until 1994. Dittrich is married to the Dutch-Israeli sculptor Jehoshua Rozenman.


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  1. ^ Boris Dittrich writes thriller Archived 7 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine NOS news, 13-APR-2011, visited 29 January 2012.