Uwe Kitzinger

Uwe Kitzinger (born 12 April 1928) is a political analyst.[1]

Kitzinger emigrated to Britain from Germany in 1939.[1] He was educated at Watford Grammar School and, from 1940 to 1946, at Balliol College and New College, Oxford.[1] In 1950 he was elected president of the Oxford Union and in 1951 he gained a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.[1] Afterwards, he worked for the Council of Europe as an economist and was appointed secretary of its Economic Committee.[1] From 1956 to 1976, he was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.[1]

Kitzinger was in favour of British membership of the EEC and when Britain joined in 1973 he was appointed political counsellor to the Vice-President of the European Commission, Sir Christopher Soames.[1] In 1983 he was appointed President of Templeton College, Oxford and from 1993 until 2003 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University.[1]

Works

  • German Electoral Politics (1960).
  • The Challenge of the Common Market (1961).
  • Britain, Europe and Beyond (1964).
  • The Second Try (1968).
  • Diplomacy and Persuasion (1973).
  • (with David Butler), The 1975 Referendum (1976).
  • (with Ernst Frankel Macro), Engineering and the Earth (1998).

Notes

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