Ralf Fücks

Ralf Fücks is man­ag­ing direc­tor of the Center for Liberal Modernity, fol­low­ing 21 years as president of the Hein­rich-Böll-Stiftung, the polit­i­cal foun­da­tion asso­ci­ated with the Greens. Before that he was co-chair of the German Green Party (1989/​90) and Senator of Envi­ron­ment and City Devel­op­ment in Bremen.

Fücks is author to numerous books. In 2013 his fundamental book “Intelligent Wachsen – Die grüne Revolution” (Smart Growth – The Green Revolution) was published in German, followed by English, Polish and Russian editions. His next book, “Freiheit verteidigen – wie wir den Kampf um die offene Gesellschaft gewinnen” (Defending Freedom – How We Can Win The Fight For An Open Society) was published in German, English and Polish, too.  The following anthology “Soziale Marktwirtschaft ökologisch erneuern“ (“Greening the Social Market Economy”) was edited in 2019 by Fücks with Thomas Köhler.