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Ralf Dahrendorf
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German-British sociologist, politician (1929–2009)
Key facts
- President
- François-Xavier Ortoli
- Preceded by
- Fritz Hellwig
- Succeeded by
- Guido Brunner
- Chancellor
- Willy Brandt
- Constituency
- FDP List
- Born
- Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf , ( 1929-05-01 ) 1 May 1929, Hamburg , Weimar Republic
- Died
- 17 June 2009 (2009-06-17) (aged 80), Cologne , Germany
- Resting place
- Ohlsdorfer Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg, Germany
- Citizenship
- British, German
- 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
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gustav
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- Cologne
- Father
- Gustav Dahrendorf
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Saarland University
- Employer
- University of Konstanz
- Political party
- Free Democratic Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Field of work
- sociology
- Image
- Professor R. G Dahrendorf, 1980.jpg
- Work location
- Tübingen
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- Ralf Dahrendorf
- date of birth
- 1929-05-01
- date of death
- 2009-06-17
- member of
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Ralf Dahrendorf
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- place of burial
- Ohlsdorf Cemetery
- influenced by
- Karl Marx
- honorific prefix
- The Right Honourable
- catalog code
- 11000349
- P10632
- Ralf Dahrendorf
- archives at
- German Federal Archives
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Encyclopedic overview
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, ( German pronunciation: [ˈʁalf ˈɡʊstaf ˈdaːʁəndɔʁf]; 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.
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