The historian and publicist Arnulf Baring is dead. The 86-Year-old had died on Saturday afternoon surrounded by his family in Berlin, said his wife, Gabriele Baring from the German press Agency. First of all, the “world reports”.
Baring was on 8. May 1932 born in Dresden. First, he studied law, he later taught for decades as a political scientist and historian at the Free University of Berlin, where he had a variety of chairs. As a scientist, had acquired Baring early respect: His works “In the beginning was Adenauer” (1969) and “change of power: The Era of the Brandt-Scheel” (1982) has been praised as a thorough analysis.
in 1969, had been appointed Baring as a full Professor at the FU Berlin, where he conducted research for the next almost 30 years, and taught. He was with his theses, Essays, and talk show appearances again and again for discussion. So he defended in 2010, the controversial book of the former German Bank Executive Thilo Sarrazin’s “Germany does away with itself”. In 2002, he criticised the “frozen party system” and called in a newspaper article on the tax boycott (“citizens, to the barricades!”).
“Actually, I consider myself a lamb,” said Baring of the dpa a few years ago. “But somehow it comes then, however, often different. I’m always surprised.“ In 1983, he was excluded in spite of years of membership from the SPD, because he had supported in the election campaign, the FDP politician, Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
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The greatest happiness of his life were his four children and his grandson, was the recipient of the German cross of merit of the dpa, to its 80. Birthday said. (dpa, AFP)
