Arnulf Baring

Who is Arnulf Baring?

Arnulf Baring is a German lawyer, journalist, political scientist, contemporary historian and author. He is a member of the German-British Baring family of bankers.

He earned a doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 1958. In 1968 he was invited by Henry Kissinger 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.

He worked at the Bundespräsidialamt 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. He was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 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 in 1998.

Baring is a founding member of the Förderverein der Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and the scientific advisory board of the Centre Against Expulsions.