Ernst Fraenkel

Ernst Fraenkel (1898-1975) was an eminent political scientist who began his professional career as a labor lawyer in Weimar Germany. Forced to flee the Nazi dictatorship in 1938, he emigrated to the United States and worked as an adviser to the U.S. government. Fraenkel returned to Germany in 1951, where, as a professor at Berlin's Freie Universit�t, he played a leading role in establishing the discipline of political science in the country of his birth. Jens Meierhenrich is Associate...See more

Ernst Fraenkel (1898-1975) was an eminent political scientist who began his professional career as a labor lawyer in Weimar Germany. Forced to flee the Nazi dictatorship in 1938, he emigrated to the United States and worked as an adviser to the U.S. government. Fraenkel returned to Germany in 1951, where, as a professor at Berlin's Freie Universit�t, he played a leading role in establishing the discipline of political science in the country of his birth. Jens Meierhenrich is Associate Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt , and he previously taught for a decade at Harvard University. See less