Fredman Ashe Lincoln

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Fredman Ashe Lincoln (born October 30, 1907 in Bradford , † October 19, 1998 ) was a British lawyer and naval officer.

Life and activity

Lincoln was a son of Reuben Lincoln (1881–1957), a Jewish lawyer and Orthodox clergyman. After attending the Hoe Grammar School in Plymouth and Haberdasher's Aske's School in London, he studied at Exeter College in Oxford. In 1929 he was admitted to the bar.

During the Second World War, Lincoln, who had been a reserve officer in the Royal Navy since 1937, served in the Navy. He was mainly used in mine clearance and was involved in the first recovery of a German mine by the British, which he contributed to the British Navy was able to analyze this weapon and develop strategies to defend it. In 1943 he was used with a command group in the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy. In 1945 he was one of the first British people to cross the Remagen Bridge.

Because of his work in the Anglo-Ukrainian committee in the 1930s, Lincoln was targeted by the National Socialist police forces, who classified him as an important target: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful Invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupying troops following SS special commandos with special priority.

In 1948 Lincoln became naval advisor to the newly formed State of Israel. From 1972 to 1979 he was President of the World Federation of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.

In 1945 and 1950 he ran for the Conservative Party for the British House of Commons in the constituencies of Harrow East and Willesden East.

Lincoln served as honorary president of the Masorti Synagogue Council

family

Lincoln had been married to Sybil Eileen Cohen since 1933. Lincoln's son David Lincoln was a rabbi at New York's Park Avenue Synagogue.

Fonts

  • The Legal Background to the Starrs , 1932.
  • The Starra: Their Effect on Early English Law and Administration , 1939.
  • Secret Naval Investigator , 1961.
  • Odyssey of a Jewish Sailor , 1995.

literature

  • William D. Rubinstein / Michael Jolles / Hilary L. Rubinstein: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History , p. 596.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Lincoln on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Lincoln, Fredman Ashe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and naval officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bradford
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1998