Daniel Frankel

Daniel Frankel (born August 18, 1900 - May 16, 1988 ) was a British politician (Labor Party).

Life and activity

During the First World War Frankel was involved in the anti-war Independent Labor Party (ILP). In 1919 he became a member of the executive committee of the Stepney Trade Council and in 1920 represented Whitechapel at the party convention of the ILP. He later became Mayor of Stepney .

Frankel was first elected as a member of the British House of Commons in the House of Commons election of 1935 as a candidate for the Labor Party in the constituency of Mile End, where he was able to prevail against the conservative William O'Donovan . He then belonged to the British Parliament for almost ten years, until the elections in the summer of 1945, in which he lost his mandate to the communist candidate Philip Piratin .

As a prominent Jew in public life in Great Britain, Frankel, like the other fifteen Jewish members of the British Parliament during the Second World War, was targeted by the National Socialist police after the outbreak of war: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him - like the rest of them "Jewish" Members of the House of Commons - on the special wanted list GB , a directory of persons who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, were to be located and arrested with special priority by the occupying troops following special units of the SS.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Frankel on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).