(d.2009) Sociologist, philosopher and politician, Prof. Dahrendorf was invested by Queen Elizabeth as Baron of Clare Market in Westminster in 1993. He served as Professor of Sociology in Hamburg, at Columbia University, in Tubingen and at the University of Constance. After a brief Membership of the SPD (until 1952), he stood as a Councillor for the Freie Demokratische Partei in Tubingen and in 1967 was elected to Baden-Wurttemberg’s Parliament. Then, in 1969 he became Member of the German Parliament. In 1970 he switched to the European Commission where he was responsible first for Foreign Trade and the EEC’s external relations, and subsequently for Education, research and Science. In 1974 Lord Dahrendorf was appointed Director of the London school of Economics, a position he held for ten years. From 1987 to 1997 he was Warden of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford. He has been author of a rich bibliography of important works of sociology, political science and history.