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Boris Dittrich
Dittrich in 2007
Member of the Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 June 2019
Leader of the Democrats 66
In office 22 January 2003 – 3 February 2006
Preceded by
Thom de Graaf
Succeeded by
Alexander Pechtold
Leader of the Democrats 66 in the House of Representatives
In office 22 January 2003 – 3 February 2006
Preceded by
Thom de Graaf
Succeeded by
Lousewies 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 68) Utrecht, Netherlands
Political party
Democrats 66 (since 1981)
Spouse
Jehoshua Rozenman
(m. 2006)
Residence
Amsterdam
Alma mater
Leiden University (Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws)
Occupation
Politician · Jurist · Lawyer · Judge · Activist · Political pundit · Author · Professor
Boris Ottokar Dittrich (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈboːrɪzˈditrix];[1] 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.[2]
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.
^Boris in isolation: [ˈboːrɪs].
^Boris Dittrich writes thriller Archived 7 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine NOS news, 13-APR-2011, visited 29 January 2012.
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Gogh, who was supposed to be the moderator of a debate between him and BorisDittrich, insulted Abou Jahjah by calling him "de pooier van de profeet" ("the...
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Australia. BorisDittrich, current LGBTI Program Director for Human Rights Watch and former member of the Tweede Kamer in the Netherlands (Dittrich voted in...
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