The Lord Dahrendorf | |
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 Dahrendorf in 1980 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 15 July 1993 – 17 June 2009 Life Peerage | |
| European Commissioner for Research, Science and Education | |
| In office 6 January 1973 – 5 January 1977 | |
| President | François-Xavier Ortoli |
| Preceded by | Fritz Hellwig |
| Succeeded by | Guido Brunner |
| European Commissioner for Trade | |
| In office 1 July 1970 – 5 January 1973 | |
| President | Sicco Mansholt Franco Maria Malfatti |
| Preceded by | Jean-François Deniau |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Soames |
| Parliamentary Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 22 October 1969 – 2 July 1970 | |
| Chancellor | Willy Brandt |
| Preceded by | new appointment |
| Succeeded by | Karl Moersch |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 28 September 1969 – 2 July 1970 | |
| Constituency | FDP List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf 1 May 1929 Hamburg, Weimar Republic |
| Died | 17 June 2009 (aged 80) Cologne, Germany |
| Resting place | Ohlsdorfer Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg, Germany |
| Citizenship | British German |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats (UK) FDP (Germany) |
| Spouse(s) | Vera Dahrendorf (née Vera Banister) Ellen Dahrendorf (née Ellen Joan Krug) (1980–2004) Christiane Dahrendorf (née Christiane Klebs) (2004–2009) |
| Relations | Frank Dahrendorf (Brother) |
| Children | Nicola, Alexandra, and Daphne Dahrendorf |
| Parent | Lina Dahrendorf (Mother) Gustav Dahrendorf (Father) |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg London School of Economics |
| Profession | Sociologist |
| Awards | 1975: elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1977: Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) awarded by the University of Bath., 1977: elected member of the American Philosophical Society, 1977: elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences, 1982: Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1989: Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1993: Life Peer (Baron Dahrendorf), 1997: Theodor-Heuss-Preis, 1999: Medal of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, 1999: Honorary Senator of the University of Hamburg, 2002: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 2003: Pour le Mérite |
Ralf Dahrendorf | |
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| Known for | Providing a new definition of class conflict based on authority relations |
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, FBA (1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and analysing class divisions in modern society. Dahrendorf wrote multiple articles and books, his most notable being Class and Conflict in Industrial Society (1959) and Essays in the Theory of Society (1968).
During his political career, he was a Member of the German Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Foreign Office of Germany, European Commissioner for Trade, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Education and Member of the British House of Lords, after he was created a life peer in 1993. He was subsequently known in the United Kingdom as Lord Dahrendorf.[1]
He served as director of the London School of Economics and Warden of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He also served as a Professor of Sociology at a number of universities in Germany and the United Kingdom, and was a Research Professor at the Berlin Social Science Research Center.
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