Egon Jüttner (born 20 May 1942 inGurschdorf) is a German educationalist and social scientist, university lecturer and former politician (CDU). He was a member of the German Bundestag for almost 20 years in total and worked in the Mannheim city council for roughly 40 years.[1][2][3]
Jüttner was born in Gurschdorf in theSudetenland (nowSkorošice in theCzech Republic). After beingexpelled, he attended primary school inSulzdorf an der Lederhecke inLower Franconia from 1948 to 1952.[1] Jüttner graduated from high school inBad Königshofen in 1961 and then studied English,Romance languages and literature, phonetics and education atSaarland University inSaarbrücken and theFree University ofBerlin. In 1964, he passed the interpreting exam for Swedish. From 1964 to 1965, he was a lecturer in Swedish at the Institute of German Studies at Saarbrücken University. From 1965 to 1968, he was a researchfellow at the Max Planck Institute for Educational Research in Berlin and a consultant for Sweden. Jüttner gained hisdoctorate in 1969 with his thesis "Der Kampf um die schwedische Schulreform" (The Struggle for Swedish School Reform)[4] before working as a lecturer, research assistant, academic counsellor and senior academic counsellor at various universities inHeidelberg,Mainz,Worms andMannheim from 1969 to 1976. From 1976 to 2007, Jüttner was a professor at theUniversity of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich in the Department of Pedagogical Propaedeutics.[5]
He isCatholic and was married to Ursula, née Keller, until her death in 2022. They have two children and three grandchildren and lived in theSandhofen district of Mannheim. He counts gardening among his hobbies.[3][6]
As a student, Jüttner was still on theleft according to his own statements, but soon foundWilly Brandt'sOstpolitik difficult to accept.[7] Jüttner joined theCDU in 1972 and became a district councillor inSandhofen in 1980. In 1984, he was elected toMannheim's municipal council for the first time and served on it several times, with interruptions. He was a member of the GermanBundestag from1990 through1994 to 1998. After narrowly missingre-entry in 1998, he replaced the deceasedDietmar Schlee towards the end of the 14th parliamentary term on 6 August 2002 and was then a member of the Bundestag until the2005 parliamentary elections. He was re-elected to the German Bundestag in the2009 general election and againin 2013, winning the direct mandate in theMannheim constituency in the 1994, 2009 and 2013 elections. He was most recently a member of theCommittee on Foreign Affairs and theCommittee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid and Deputy Chairman of theSubcommittee on United Nations,Internationalisation and Globalisation. Jüttner was a member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and theEuropa-Union Parliamentary Group of the German Bundestag.
In spring 2016, Jüttner announced that he would not be standing forelection to the 19th Bundestag in autumn 2017. His successor in the constituency wasNikolas Löbel, with whom Jüttner had a rather distant relationship.[8][9]
From 1995 to 2002, Jüttner was chairman of the Mannheim CDU district association and has been honorary chairman since 2002. In May 2021, it became known that the district executive had reprimanded its honorary chairman Jüttner for passing on internal information and had asked him to hand back the honorary chairman title.[10] However, Jüttner did not comply with this request.[11] The case is currently (As of 2021[update]) before the district party court of the Nordbaden district association inMosbach, and Jüttner is being represented bySven-Joachim Otto as a lawyer in the proceedings.[12] In November 2023, Jüttner - against his own wishes - was no longer included by the CDU on the list of candidates for the 2024 local elections.[13] In spring 2024, Jüttner announced that he would be standing for the rivalMittelstand für Mannheim (MfM) voters' association in the local elections on 9 June 2024.[14] There, he achieved the best result of the list of all time and was elected as an individual city councillor.[15][16] In November 2024, Jüttner withdrew from the municipal council for health reasons - without having attended a single meeting of the newly elected municipal council and under threat of forfeiting his expense allowance.[17]
Jüttner was a member of the advisory board and Vice President of theGerman-Arab Society from 2004 to 2008, he was a founding member and President of theGerman-Japanese Society [de]Rhine-Neckar from 1979 to 1996. From 1975 to 2016, he was chairman of the non-profit citizens' association Mannheim-Sandhofen e. V.[18] and a member of theSudeten German Council [de] since 1998.
In 2013, he accompaniedEduard Lintner, who was heavily criticised in the context of the"Azerbaijani laundromat" affair, on a controversial trip to Azerbaijan.[19]
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