 In 1972, after retirement, he became an adjunct professor of political science at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, until 1979, and at the American University in Washington, D.C. from 1980 to 1982.He acted as a consultant for the Center for Public Policy Education, the Brookings Institution, from 1982 to 1988.Bauer’s wife, Maria (née von Kahler), is the author of "Beyond the Chestnut Trees," a 1984 memoir of their lives together during World War II.