Gerhart Baum

Gerhart Baum was Minister of the Interior (1978-1982) and a member of the German Bundestag (1972-1994). He has been a member of the German liberal party FDP for almost 70 years. As a politician and in numerous publications, he was concerned with civil and human rights, environmental protection, and cultural policy. From 1992 he worked for the U.N. As a lawyer, he has been involved in several successful constitutional complaints. Regular lecture tours in Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia, where he experienced firsthand how oppressed civil society suffers under authoritarianism and dictatorship.

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