Richard Fritz Behrendt (6 February 1908 in Gliwice, Upper Silesia – 17 October 1972 in Basel) was a German sociologist.
[1][2][3] Behrendt was born in Gliwice, Prussia (now Poland) on February 2, 1908.
After studying business in Nuremberg, political science in Cologne and Basel (where he earned a doctorate in 1931), and at the London School of Economics, he worked as a journalist before obtaining a professorship at the University of Panama in 1935.
[4] From 1941 to 1943 he was a professor in the School of Inter-American Affairs at the University of New Mexico.
After a stint at the Interamerican University of Panama, as director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, he moved to Colgate University in the US in the Fall of 1945, and was promoted to full professor of international affairs in 1946.