Arnulf Baring

Arnulf Baring (8 May 1932 – 2 March 2019) was a German lawyer, journalist, political scientist, contemporary historian and author. He was a member of the German-British Baring family of bankers. He was born in Dresden. 
Baring worked at the Bundespräsidialamt (Office of the German President) from 1976 to 1979. He received the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ("Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland") in 1998.
Baring died on 2 March 2019 in Berlin, aged 86.