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Dirk Stettner

German politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ1228090
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Dirk Stettner (born 24 August 1969) is a German entrepreneur and politician. He is a member of (CDU).

Life

Stettner completed high school in Siegen. He then spent a year in the press and information office of the city and then completed his military service in Wetzlar. He then spent three years as a staff member in the German parliament Bundestag and began a part-time study of history, law and politics at the University of Bonn. In 1994 he moved to Berlin, where he took up a part-time study of political science at the Free University of Berlin. Stettner is married and has three children.

Careers

Stettner is a partner and managing director of the "Stettner + Stettner GmbH" for real estate development, planning and design. He is also a member of the supervisory board for the real estate services company "GW-C Grundwert Consult AG". Furthermore, Stettner founded a non-profit sheltered workshop in 2004/05 under the name "Wisowerk gGmbH" as well as a non-profit corporation, "Wisowerk gAG", the purpose of which was the integration of people with disabilities into the labor market.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dirk Stettner” is german politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dirk, Stettner and German, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1994, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-08-24. For this dossier, Dirk, Stettner and German is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1228090. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1994 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from Dirk Stettner” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.