Daniel Finkelstein, Baron Finkelstein

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Daniel William Finkelstein, Baron Finkelstein OBE (born August 30, 1962 in London ) is a British journalist and politician with the Conservative Party . He has been a Life Peer member of the House of Lords since September 2013 .

Life

Family and education

Daniel Finkelstein comes from a Jewish British family. His maternal grandfather was the publicist and activist Alfred Wiener ; he founded the Vienna Library . His father Ludwik Finkelstein OBE was professor of engineering , control and measurement technology ( Measurement and Instrumentation ) at City University London ; he died in 2011. His mother Mirjam Finkelstein (* 1933) was born Mirjam Wiener in Berlin . She grew up in Amsterdam , where her family fled after the Nazi seizure of power . There she attended, like Anne Frank , the Montessori school in the Niersstraat. In June 1943 she was deported to the Westerbork concentration camp , and later to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . In January 1945 she was released with the help of a forged identity card from the Republic of Paraguay as part of a prisoner exchange organized by the Swiss Red Cross and emigrated to the United States via Switzerland in the spring of 1945 . After the war ended she returned to London.

Daniel Finkelstein attended Hendon Preparatory School and University College School. He studied from 1980 to 1983 Economics and Political Science ( Economics and Politics ) at the London School of Economics . There he graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) and in 1986 with a Master of Science (MSc).

Career as a journalist

Finkelstein worked in various positions in publishing . From 1987 to 1992 Finkelstein was editor at the information and media company VNU Business Publications . From 1989 to 1992 he was editor of Connexion , the first internet newspaper in Great Britain. He was then director of the Social Market Foundation think tank from 1992 to 1995 . During his tenure there he brought the New York Police Commissioner William Bratton as an expert to London; this instructed British politicians in US police strategies and the fight against crime.

In August 2001, Finkelstein joined the British daily The Times . From March 2004 to June 2008 he was "Comment Editor" at the Times . In June 2008 he became "Chief Leader Writer". In September 2006, he launched a daily blog for The Times : The Times Comment Central . Since January 2010 he has been Chief Executive Director of this newspaper. He is also a regular columnist for the British weekly newspaper The Jewish Chronicle .

politics

Finkelstein was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 1981 to 1990 . In 1983 he was Chairman of the Young Social Democrats, the youth organization of the SDP, after his predecessor Keith Toussaint in the election campaign to the British general election, in 1983 for Conservative Party had moved. In the following years Finkelstein was elected representative ( Youth representative ) of the Young Social Democrats in the National Committee of the SDP. In the British general election in 1987 , he ran unsuccessfully for the SDP / Alliance as a candidate in the constituency of Brent East .

Finkelstein was a close companion and advisor to David Owen , the chairman of the SDP. Finkelstein was one of the opponents of a merger between the SDP and the Liberal Party ; Finkelstein also belonged to the minority that did not merge the SDP and Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats in 1988 . Finkelstein eventually joined the Conservative Party after Owen's retirement from politics .

From 1995 to 1998 Finkelstein was director of the Conservative Research Department . From 1999 to 2001 he was head of the Central Conservative Office . He was an advisor to Prime Minister John Major and attended cabinet meetings. At that time, Finkelstein was already one of the members of the Conservative Party who called for the party to be modernized and opened up. From 1997 to 2001 he was political advisor to opposition leader William Hague and, together with George Osborne , secretary of the shadow cabinet .

In the British general election in 2001 , Finkelstein unsuccessfully stood for the Conservative Party in the Harrow West constituency .

Membership in the House of Lords

On August 1, 2013, it was announced that Finkelstein would be appointed Life Peer and become a member of the House of Lords for the Conservative Party. He was appointed as a so-called “working peer”. On September 11, 2013, he was raised as a life peer to Baron Finkelstein , of Pinner in the County of Middlesex , and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since. On October 24, 2013, with the support of David Owen, Baron Owen and Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe , he was officially inducted into the House of Lords.

Awards and honors

In August 1997, Finkelstein was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire . In 2011 he received the " Political Studies Association 2011 Journalist of the Year Award".

In 2011 Finkelstein received an honorary doctorate as "Doctor of Science honoris causa " from City University London .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lord Finkelstein . Profile on Democracy Live. Retrieved March 9, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g William D. Rubinstein (Ed.): FINKELSTEIN, Daniel William : Entry in: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History . Palgrave MacMillian 2011. Retrieved March 9, 2014. Excerpts from Google Books .
  3. ↑ Obituary - Professor Ludwik Finkelstein OBE FREng obituary. Official City University London website from September 6, 2011. Accessed March 9, 2014
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Daniel Finkelstein: My mother's life with Anne Frank: Daniel Finkelstein's mother was persecuted like Anne, but is still here today. In: Daily Mail, January 18, 2009. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Daniel Finkelstein. LinkedIn profile . Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ Times appoints senior executives in readiness for its paywall, which could happen in May. In: The Guardian, January 22, 2010.
  7. ↑ Working peerages announced Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street on August 1, 2013
  8. ^ Crown Office. In: London Gazette, September 13, 2013. Edition 60627. Page 18117. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  9. ↑ Introduction: Lord Finkelstein. Minutes of the House of Lords meeting of October 24, 2013
  10. ^ Order of the British Empire. In: London Gazette . Supplement. Issue 54850. Page 8912. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  11. ↑ Award Winners 2011 . Page 13. With biography. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Finkelstein, Daniel, Baron Finkelstein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Finkelstein, Daniel William (maiden name); Finkelstein, Daniel, Baron Finkelstein (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and politician (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK