Ralf Gustav DAHRENDORF

Background

Dahrendorf, Ralf Gustav was born on May 1, 1929 in Hamburg, Germany. Son of Gustav and Lina (Witt) Dahrendorf.

Education

Doctor.phil., U. Hamburg, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, London School.Econs., 1954. 24 honorary degrees from European and American universities.

Career

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, United States of America 1957-1958. Professor, of Sociology, Hamburg 1958, Tubingen 1960, Constance 1966 (on leave since 1969). Visiting Professor, at several European and United States Universities.

Vice-Chairman Founding Committee University Constance 1964-1966, First Dean Faculty of Social Science 1966-1967.

Adviser on educational questions to the Land Government, of Baden-Wiirttemberg 1964-1968. Chairman Commission, on Comprehensive University Planning 1967-1968.

Executive 1968-1974. Chairman Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) Parliament. Party 1968-1969.

Chairman Royal University of Malta Commission 1972-1974. Director European Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences 1966-1982, London School of Economics 1974-1984.

Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York 1986-1987. Warden, Saint Antony"s College Oxford since 1987.

President German Sociological Society 1967-1970.

Honorary Presidium Anglo-German Society since 1973. Chairman Social Science Council of the European Science Foundation 1976-1977. Chairman Board Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung 198287.

President 1982-1984.

Lecturer 1974. Grand Croix de l’Ordre du Merite du Senegal 1971, Grand Croix de l’Ordre du Merite du Luxembourg 1974, Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Stem und Schulterband (February Republic of Germany) 1974, Grosses goldenes Ehrenzeichen am Bande (Austria) 1975, Grand Croix de l"Ordre de Leopold II (Belgium) 1975.

Achievements

• Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf has been listed as a notable social scientist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Federal Parliament, Government of Federal Republic Germany, 1969-1970, parlimentary secretary of state in German Foreign Office, 1969-1970. Member communications of theEuropean Communities, 1970-1974. Member Council of British Academy, 1980-1983.

Member Hansard Society of Electoral Reform, 1975-1976.

Member.Royal Commision on Legal Superior vena cava syndrome, 1976-1979. Member Committee to Review the Functioning of Finance Institutions, 1977-1980.

Member German Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Centre, 1971. Fellow Anglo German Society (presidium), British Academy, Royal Society Arts, Royal College Surgeons (honorary).

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (honorary), National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate), American Philosophical Society, Royal Irish Academy (honorary), others

Connections

Married Ellen Joan Krug in 1980.

Father:

Gustav Dahrendorf

Mother:

Lina (Witt) Dahrendorf

Spouse:

Ellende Kadt.