Ernst Fraenkel (political scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Fraenkel (political scientist)

political scientist

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1898

Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1975

Profession: writer, lawyer, political scientist, university teacher

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ernst Fraenkel (26 December 1898 – 28 March 1975) was a German political scientist.
He was one of the founding fathers of German political science after World War II.During the Weimar Republic Fraenkel was a member of the social democrats and one of the few jurists who held socialist opinions.
According to some historians in the 1930s he was designated to be Attorney General of a possible social-democratic German government.
In 1939 he immigrated to the United States where he began to develop his respect for the politics of that country, especially its pluralism and its checks and balances.