Arnold Bergstraesser

Arnold Bergstraesser (14 July 1896, Darmstadt – 24 February 1964, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German political scientist.

Along with Wolfgang Abendroth, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Theodor Eschenburg, and Eric Voegelin, he was one of the founders of political science in West Germany after World War II.

Bergstraesser was a founding member of the German Academic Exchange Service in 1925.

He fled Germany in 1937, as his university service at Heidelberg was terminated due to his family's Jewish origins.

He is the founder of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for transregional research and comparative area studies in Freiburg im Breisgau.