Kristine Lütke (born 29 June 1982) is a German politician of theFDP who served asmember of theBundestag from 2021 to 2025.
Lütke grew up in Schwand in the municipality ofSchwanstetten.[1] In 1989, after graduating from high school inRoth, she spent a year abroad inCanada. She then studied social work at theTechnische Hochschule Nürnberg from 2002 to 2007 and graduated with a degree in social pedagogy. This was followed by studies ingerontology at the Friedrich-AlexanderUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2007 to 2010. From 2013 to 2014, Lütke took further training to become a facilities manager.
Together with her family, Lütke runs a senior care and nursing facility inLauf.[2]
Lütke has been a member of the FDP since 2017.[2] In 2018, she was chairwoman of the Wirtschaftsjunioren Deutschlands. She is treasurer of the FDPBavaria and a district councilor in the district ofNürnberger Land.[3]
Lütke ran in the2021 German federal election as a direct candidate in theRoth federal electoral district and in 12th place on the state list of the FDP. As the FDP Bavaria won 14 seats, Lütke was a member of the20th GermanBundestag.[4]
In December 2021, Lütke was elected as the addiction anddrug policy spokeswoman of the FDP parliamentary group. She was also a member of the Health Committee.[5][6]
In the run-up to the vote of the Bundestag to remove§219a from thepenal code Lütke published a video,[7] in which she dances together with other MPs with sunglasses through a corridor[8] overlaid with the text "On our way to the vote to kick 219a from the penal code". At this, all deputies made the head-down gesture with their right hand in the direction of the camera. Lütke received massive criticism for this in the social media.CSU politicianDorothee Bär spoke of the most tasteless tweet in a long time.[9] No woman would dance on the way to an abortion. Lütke deleted the video after massive criticism from politicians and the media[10] saying she had been misunderstood. In contrast,Ria Schröder, a member of the Bundestag for the FDP, who was also seen in the video making the head-down gesture, defended the video.[11]
