Arnulf Martin Baring (8 May 1932 in
Dresden
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– 2 March 2019 in
Berlin
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) was a German lawyer, journalist, political scientist, contemporary historian and author. He was a member of the German-British
Baring family
The Baring family is a Germans, German and British people, British family of merchants and bankers. In Germany, the family belongs to the ''Bildungsbürgertum'', and in England, it belongs to the Aristocracy (class), aristocracy.
History
The fa ...
of bankers.
Life
Arnulf Baring was born to jurist and politician Martin Eberhard Baring (1904–1989) and Gertrud Stolze. He was the grandson of German jurist Adolf Baring (1860–1945).
Baring earned a doctorate at the
Free University of Berlin
The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...
in 1958. In 1968 he was invited by
Henry Kissinger
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to teach at the
Harvard Center for International Affairs, and the following year, he was appointed as Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught until his retirement in 1998.
In 1997, he expressed concern that the European Monetary Union would make Germans the most hated people in Europe. Baring was aware of the possibility that the people in Mediterranean countries would regard Germans as economic policemen, predicting that the currency bloc would end up with blackmailing its member countries.
He worked at the
Bundespräsidialamt (Office of the German President) from 1976 to 1979. He was initially a member of the SPD, but was expelled from the party in 1983, after publicly supporting liberal
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974, and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affa ...
. He was affiliated with the
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent schola ...
in
Princeton
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1992–1993 and was a Fellow of
St Antony's College, Oxford, 1993–1994.
He received the
Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (''Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland'') in 1998.
Baring was a founding member of the Förderverein der
Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and the scientific advisory board of the
Centre Against Expulsions.
Personal
He married the psychological practitioner Gabriele (née Oettgen) in 1986. The couple had two children.
Arnulf Baring also had two adult daughters from his first marriage. He was a distant relative of
Johann Baring, who immigrated to England and created the British Baring lineage.
Publications
* ''Kanzler, Krisen, Koalitionen''. Siedler, Berlin 2002, .
* ''Es lebe die Republik, es lebe Deutschland! Stationen demokratischer Erneuerung 1949–1999''. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, .
* ''Scheitert Deutschland? Der schwierige Abschied von unseren Wunschwelten'', Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1997, .
* ''Machtwechsel - Die Ära Brandt-Scheel'', Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1982, .
* ''Im Anfang war Adenauer. Die Entstehung der Kanzlerdemokratie'', München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1982, .
References
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Arnulf Baring
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1932 births
2019 deaths
20th-century German historians
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Writers from Dresden
Free University of Berlin alumni
Free University of Berlin faculty
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
German male non-fiction writers
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