Felix Elieser Shinnar

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Konrad Adenauer on his visit to Israel in 1966 in Shinnar's house in Tel Aviv. Shinnar (with glasses) stands behind Adenauer

Felix Elieser Shinnar ( Hebrew פֵלִיקְס אֱלִיעֶזֶר שִׁנְעָר Felix Elīʿeser Shinʿar ; * April 17, 1905 in Stuttgart ; † May 14, 1985 in Tel Aviv ; born as Felix Schneebalg ) was an Israeli banking lawyer and diplomat born in Germany.

Life

1905 to 1934

Felix Schneebalg was the son of the businessman Heinrich Chaim Schneebalg and his wife Jenny, née Schiffmann. He grew up in Stuttgart, where he under his birth name Felix Schneebalg school attended and the High School took off. He then studied at the universities of Tübingen , Heidelberg and Frankfurt law . In Heidelberg he was in 1927 with the work of the lien of the banks after the German Commercial Code and the terms and conditions for Dr. jur. PhD . Until 1933, Felix Schneebalg was the managing director of a trust company. After the seizure of power by the Nazis , he left Germany in 1934 and emigrated to Palestine , which under a League of Nations mandate since 1920 the UK was administered. In Palestine he gave up his maiden name and used the name Shinnar from then on.

1934 to 1951

In line with his profession as a lawyer, Shinnar worked in the banking industry in Palestine. At the same time, he ran the oldest Hebrew newspaper, Haaretz, for several years . From 1939 to 1946 he was chairman of the Israel Discount Bank . Since 1941 he was married to Alisa Oppenheim. On May 18, 1948, the first trade minister of the newly founded state of Israel, Peretz Bernstein , who also came from Germany, appointed him to head the “fuel department” in his ministry and shortly afterwards he was appointed “controller of fuel”. ("Fuel Commissioner"). Its most important task was to procure crude oil as the only source of energy in the country. At the time, Shinnar had only a short-term plan for the state to help them set up an administration. He then intended to resume his work at Haaretz and as a bank advisor. In the years 1949 to 1951, Shinnar then built up the economic department in the London legation with the rank of embassy counselor , through which the oil supply, but also other supplies necessary to maintain the state, were administratively accompanied. After his return he took over the newly established department of the Foreign Ministry "Assertion of the claims of the Jewish people against Germany".

1952 to 1966

From 1952 to March 31, 1966, Felix Shinnar headed the so-called Israel Mission with the rank of ambassador but without diplomatic status - a trade mission that was responsible for carrying out Germany's reparations to Israel on the basis of the Luxembourg Agreement of September 11 1952 was built. During this time he lived in the Cologne district of Lindenthal in the former neighboring house of Konrad Adenauer ( Max-Bruch-Straße 8 ).

By Fritz Bauer , he received the late 1950s, the first clues about the hiding place of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, so this information in the possession of the Israeli secret service Mossad reached.

Fonts

  • The banks' lien according to the HGB and the terms and conditions. Dissertation, Heidelberg 1927
  • Development and state of the economy in Israel: Lecture on May 12, 1958 in Bonn. (= Series of publications of the German Industry and Trade Conference, Volume 52), Kluge, Berlin 1958.
  • Report from an agent. German-Israeli relations 1951–1966. With a foreword by David Ben Gurion and Konrad Adenauer. Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins , Tübingen 1967.
  • Erhard and Israel. In: Ludwig Erhard: Contributions to his political biography. Commemorative publication for the seventy-fifth birthday. Propylaen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, pp. 402-404.
  • Franz Böhm as thanks. In: Economic order and state constitution: Festschrift for Franz Böhm on his 80th birthday. Mohr, Tübingen 1975, pp. 29-32.

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Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ a b c Who's who in Israel and in the work for Israel abroad , Bronfman & Cohen Publications, 1978, p. 338
  2. ^ Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Felix Shinnar Dead at 80 , May 16, 1985, accessed May 12, 2015.
  3. ^ A b c d Felix E. Shinnar: Report of an agent. German-Israeli relations 1951–1966.
  4. ^ Cabinet minutes 1962.
  5. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (status: March 1962, January 1964)
  6. ^ The Eichmann Trial begins (April 11, 1961) on YouTube
personal data
SURNAME Shinnar, Felix Elieser
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneebalg, Felix (= maiden name); Shinnar Felix E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli lawyer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 1985
Place of death Tel Aviv