The NDR broadcasting Council chose the 54-Year-old on Friday in Hamburg with 39 of the 46 votes cast, such as the NDR reported. It had been a no vote and six abstentions. The Council thus followed the proposal of the Board of Directors. Lütke, since 2019 the Director of Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen, follows Joachim Knuth, the since 13. January 2020, the Director of the NDR's. A parliamentary term lasts for six years. The NDR is responsible for the Federal States of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.