Wolf-Christian von Ditfurth (born March 14, 1953) is a German author and historian. He was a member of the

German Communist Party The German Communist Party (german: Deutsche Kommunistische Partei, ) is a communist party in Germany. The DKP supports left positions and was an observer member of the European Left. At the end of February 2016 it left the European party. His ...

from 1973 to 1983. In January 1998, he joined the

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the ...

, remaining a member for two years. During the twenty-first century he has not joined a political party. As a journalist, Ditfurth has published numerous articles in ''

Der Spiegel ''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner ...

''. Since 1999 also been a writer of sensational and detective novels. A member of the Ditfurth family, his father

Hoimar von Ditfurth Hoimar von Ditfurth (15 October 1921, Berlin – 1 November 1989, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a Germans, German physician and scientific journalist. He was the father of Christian v. Ditfurth, Christian von Ditfurth, a historian, and Jutta Ditfurth, ...

was a journalist, doctor, popular television presenter and writer, while his sister,

Jutta Ditfurth Jutta Gerta Armgard von Ditfurth (born 29 September 1951) is a German sociologist, writer, and radical ecologist politician. Born into the noble house of Ditfurth, members of which had been noble ministeriales invested with hereditary administra ...

, is a journalist and politician.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ditfurth, Christian 1953 births Living people Writers from Würzburg 20th-century German historians German Communist Party politicians Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians German male non-fiction writers