Lindner’s angry speech about anti founder culture (source: Die Welt) Christian Lindners (FDP) viral web speech should be an alarm call to improve our startup culture in Germany Düsseldorf/Dresden, 3. Februar 2015. The chairman of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) of Germany, Christian Lindner, recently gave a speech about entrepreneurship everybody is talking about now. In the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, he was attacked by a social democrat for the failure of his startup business around the year 2000.