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Dahrendorf is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ellen Dahrendorf, British historian and translator * Gustav Dahrendorf (1901–1954), German politician *Nicola Dahrendorf, British government and United Nations official *Ralf Dahrendorf Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (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 a ... (1929–2009), German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and politician See also * Dahrendorf hypothesis, name given to a hypothesis by the German-British political scientist Ralf Dahrendorf, which states that diversity is desirable in economic policies across time and space according to local needs {{surname, Dahrendorf German-language surnames ...
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Ralf Dahrendorf
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (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 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. 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 ...
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Gustav Dahrendorf
Gustav Dietrich Dahrendorf (8 January 1901, Hamburg – 30 October 1954) was a German SPD politician. Biography Dahrendorf was born in Hamburg, he served as member of the German Parliament from November 1932 to 22 June 1933. He was also several times a member of the Hamburg Parliament. He was the father of Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf and Frank Dahrendorf. In 1944 Dahrendorf was accused of treason at the Volksgerichtshof for his involvement in the 20 July plot alongside Julius Leber, Adolf Reichwein and Hermann Maaß. He was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. Dahrendorf died in Braunlage Braunlage () is a town and health resort in the Goslar district of Lower Saxony in Germany. Situated within the Harz mountain range, south of the Brocken massif, Braunlage's main business is tourism, particularly skiing. Nearby ski resorts includ .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dahrendorf, Gustav 1901 births 1954 deaths Members of the Hamburg Parliament Socia ...
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Ellen Dahrendorf
Ellen Dahrendorf, Baroness Dahrendorf (née Ellen Joan Krug) is a British historian and translator of Russian political works, and the former wife (1980–2004) of the late German/British academic and politician Ralf Dahrendorf. Lady Dahrendorf has served on the boards of ''Article 19'', the Jewish Institute for Policy Research, has been chair of the British branch of the New Israel Fund, was a co-founder of the Working Group on the Internment of Dissidents in Psychiatric Hospitals and also Independent Jewish Voices organisation. She is the daughter of James Krug, a school teacher and married Ralf Dahrendorf in 1980. With her former husband, she lived in London and with a vacation home in Bonndorf Bonndorf is a town in the Waldshut (district), Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the southern Black Forest, 14 km southeast of Titisee-Neustadt. It comprises the villages Boll, Brunnadern, Dillendorf, Ebne ..., Germany. Publications * '' ...
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Nicola Dahrendorf
Nicola Dahrendorf is a German and British national. She is a practitioner with thirty years’ experience in conflict and post-war settings with INGOs, the United Nations, the UK government and in an academic capacity. Her professional focus has been on peace building and conflict resolution, protection of civilians and child protection, sexual and gender-based violence and on security sector and justice reform in fragile environments. She has been engaged in providing support to community-based mediation and exploring the role of artistic practice in conflict environments and peace processes for the Swiss FDFA. Her past UN work involved six peacekeeping operations in senior management positions. She has worked at UNICEF HQ as Chief of Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy and with UNHCR for seven years on refugee protection.She was head of humanitarian policy in UNICEF, the UN Special Advisor on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and has also served as Director of the ...
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Dahrendorf Hypothesis
The Dahrendorf hypothesis is the name given to a hypothesis by the German-British political scientist Ralf Dahrendorf, which states that diversity is desirable in economic policies across time and space according to local needs. Dahrendorf argues that societies are quite considerably different from each other, and that any one set of economic policies will not be equally well adapted to all societies (e.g. the same policies will not work as well in poor, subsistence economies as they will in advanced industrial economies). The Dahrendorf hypothesis was developed in opposition to many traditional perspectives and theories in economics, most notably neoclassical economics Neoclassical economics is an approach to economics in which the production, consumption and valuation (pricing) of goods and services are observed as driven by the supply and demand model. According to this line of thought, the value of a good ..., which implicitly or explicitly hold that one set of economic pol ...
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