Arnulf Baring

Arnulf Baring Martin ( born May 8, 1932 in Dresden ) is a German jurist, journalist, political scientist, historian and author. He is professor emeritus at the Free University of Berlin.

Career

Arnulf Baring comes from a German branch of the German -British Baring family of bankers. He was born as a son of the future President of the Senate Federal Administrative Court in Berlin, Martin Baring. Since 1986, he is married to Gabriele Baring born Oettgen. Baring is the father of four children, daughters Juliane and Susanne are from the first marriage, Anna and Moritz 's second marriage.

Arnulf Baring attended high school in Berlin- Zehlendorf. After graduation he studied law and political science in Hamburg, Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau, New York, Speyer and Paris. During this time, he was a fellow of the Evangelical Studies Villigst. From 1956 to 1958 he was an assistant at the Institute for Political Science, Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Free University of Berlin, where he in 1958 based on the dissertation The representative of the public interest in the German administrative process to the Dr. jur. received his doctorate. Following Baring was a lecturer at the German University of policies. Between 1960 and 1962 he was a guest at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques of the University of Paris. From 1962 to 1964 he was on the editorial board of the West German Radio in Cologne. Between 1966 and 1968 Baring was a research assistant and lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin, where he was habilitated by the old rules before the reform at the Faculty of economic and social science in 1968. After a year of research at the invitation of Henry Kissinger at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, he was appointed in the fall of 1969 as a full professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin. There he took over at the Otto -Suhr- Institute a chair of theory and comparative history of political regimes, where he remained until he moved to the chair of History and International Relations ( Friedrich- Meinecke- Institut) in 1976. Since 1998 Baring emeritus.

From 1976 to 1979 he worked in the Federal President. 1983 Baring was because he had Hans-Dietrich Genscher support in the federal election campaign, expelled from the SPD, where he had been a member since 1952. Today he is close to no party, but support foundations such as the FDP-affiliated Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the CDU - affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy.

In the 1990s, Baring was with his books The failure of Germany? and Long live the Republic, long live Germany! outside of science with liberal and patriotic views known. As a university teacher, he opened his house many talented students who were partially free to live with him. 1992/1993 was Baring member (Member) of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and 1993/1994 Fellow at St Antony 's College, Oxford.

He is involved in the Reconciliation of the SED dictatorship, since 2003 he is a founding member of the Friends of the Memorial Berlin- Hohenschonhausen.

He is also a supporter of the Centre against Expulsions and member of the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Initiative.

Baring is in demand as interlocutor frequent guest on talk shows such as Anne Will, tough but fair, and people at Maischberger. In July 2009, Baring held a festive speech at the German Atomic Forum, for which he was paid by the agency lobby Deekeling Arndt. He entered as a " non-partisan, but passionately engaged citizen " for nuclear power. On demand, he said the agency had been working him previously and supplied information.

Positions and controversies

Arnulf Baring continued throughout his career apart with the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. He made ​​several times for controversial discussions.

Early on, in 1997, Baring warned in his book fails Germany? before a monetary union and the " entry of Greece into the European Union. And he predicted what is now actually occurred: Germany threatens to be blackmailed by fiscal policy; and because we require monetary discipline, the other countries would blame us for their problems. This risked the Germans, as an economic policemen fell into disrepute, and once more to become the most hated people in Europe. "

" Monetary union is therefore tantamount end up on a gigantic blackmail. We shall be told: If you want that the monetary union and that Europe does not fly us around the ears, then we must continue to make transfer payments. Therefore, the taxes are to increase our ability to compete against third countries must be reduced accordingly. "

Due to the ongoing euro crisis since 2009 Baring sees himself confirmed in his predictions and keeps the monetary union for the biggest mistake of Germany after 1945.

In November 2002, a renowned article that appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled citizens to the barricades in the Baring " froze party system " for the reform weakness of the Federal Republic of blames. It is further stated in this article: " We can not allow that everything goes downhill further, let helpless politicians rot the country. "

2003 Baring publicly defended the CDU Bundestag deputy Martin Hohmann, who should be excluded with the accusation of having held an anti-Semitic speech, from the CDU.

2006 Barings alleged statement about the Holocaust has been criticized. In a speech during a CDU meeting he should have expressed the view according to a report in the Frankfurter Rundschau from 9 September 2006, the representation of the Holocaust as a " unique and incomparable crime" is an exaggeration. SPD and the Greens accused him before then relativize the crimes of National Socialism. Baring dismissed the allegations, his statement, taken from a speech without notes, had been taken out of context. We try to make " right-wing corner " him in the. The passage was criticized literal and related as follows:

"Of course, it is quite clear that the twelve years of Hitler will be with us as long as there are German. Even if we ourselves would be inclined to draw a line, these twelve year-long period will always append us. This has been a disaster, and the crimes have damaged us lasting. But it is equally true that these twelve years and the criminal traits of this time do not constitute the whole of our history that this has been a lamentable derailment that we think back with sadness at this stage basically, that this is just a past that will not go away, that really is the German story is not at this stage cumulative, particularly that there has been for centuries the German efficiency and German peacefulness before. [ ... ] This is also a part of this story to which we should commit ourselves. "

In October 2008, Susanne Gaschke criticized at the time the " roaring silence " Barings and other representatives of economic liberalism as Friedrich Merz, Meinhard Miegel and Hans- Werner Sinn on the financial crisis from 2007. Many years had Baring and others all the blame for mistakes the state and the politicians charged. Now that the behavior of bankers and speculators have turned out to be much larger cause of the crisis, the silent " wiseacres " said Gaschke.

In September 2010, Baring said in television broadcasts with Frank and Anne Will Plasberg for discussion Thilo Sarrazin's book Germany abolishes itself. The work itself as it thought after reading " a large part " as a "very serious, serious, thoughtful, well occupied in an essay question that we put off us for decades ." That the Chancellor condemned the book without proper knowledge and the Bundesbank have urged to initiate Sarrazin's dismissal, finally said after a few days, the Bundesbank decided in full sovereignty, Baring described as a " mockery of the Bundesbank ", and the citizens generally.

Baring, who had previously been a sympathizer of Karl- Theodor zu Guttenberg, these criticized due to its pirated thesis and accused him of character deficiency.

Awards

Baring since 1998, winners of Merit, 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Furthermore, Baring was awarded the European Culture Prize in politics. In 2011 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Works

• Chancellor Adenauer's foreign policy in democracy: Bonn's contribution to the European Defense Community. Oldenbourg, München 1969.
• Change of power. The era Brandt- Scheel. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-421-06095-9.
• The failure of Germany? The hard goodbye to our dream worlds. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-421-05095-3.
• Long live the Republic, long live Germany! Stations democratic renewal from 1949 to 1999. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05194-1.
• Chancellor, crises, coalitions. Siedler, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88680-762-2.
• The Uncomfortable. Autobiographical notes. Europa Verlag, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-944305-12-7.