Frederick Alexander Mann

Frederick August Alexander Mann , CBE, also Francis Mann , FA Mann , Fritz Mann (born August 11, 1907 in Frankenthal ; died September 16, 1991 in London ) was a German-British lawyer.

Life

Friedrich Alexander Mann, son of the Jewish judiciary and lawyer in Frankenthal, Richard Mann (1873–1953), studied law in Geneva, Munich and Berlin. He received his doctorate in Berlin after the first state examination as assistant to civil lawyer Martin Wolff in 1931. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he was able to take the second state law examination in October 1933. Immediately afterwards he emigrated to London with his wife, the lawyer Eleonore Ehrlich (1907–1980), who had received her doctorate from Eduard Kohlrausch . They had three children, Richard David (born 1935, died 2012), Jessica (1937-2018) and Nicola (born 1944). They opened a small international law firm, while doing his PhD at London University in 1938 , and they were naturalized in Great Britain before the war. After the outbreak of war, they sent their two toddlers to safe Canada by the unsafe sea route with the children . Daughter Jessica wrote a book about it in 2005. After the end of the war he was drafted into the Legal Division of the Allied Control Council in Germany as a legal advisor with the rank of Colonel for the British occupation administration and also briefly took part in the Nuremberg trials in this capacity . Mann formulated authoritative legal texts on the legal status of the defeated Germany.

Mann was only approved as a solicitor in 1946 . His law firm Hardmann Philips & Mann was taken over in 1958 by the London law firm Herbert Smith , in which Mann was a partner until 1983 . After that he was still a consultant for Smith . A colleague there was the future Lord Justice Lawrence Collins . With the international lawyer Hersch Lauterpacht and the labor lawyer Otto Kahn-Freund he cultivated the legal philosophical debate in Great Britain. His application for a professorship came to nothing because he was considered a continental European, and he was also denied admission to the bar .

A return to Germany was out of the question for him, although he held occasional teaching positions at German universities and from 1960 to 1988 an honorary professorship at the University of Bonn , where he supervised eleven doctoral students over the years. He also appeared as a speaker at the German Legal Conference in 1954 .

Mann dealt with the interfaces between international law and private international law, his work The legal aspect of money (1938) was a standard work that Mann was still preparing in a fifth revision in 1991, and English jurisprudence cited from his many books and journal articles that what was considered an extraordinary award.

In the 1963 kidnapping affair of the French Colonel Argoud , Mann criticized the government of the Federal Republic of Germany for not daring to submit a return request in good time before Argoud was convicted. The Federal Republic sacrificed the rule of law to the opportunity of the moment. According to Christian Tomuschat , Mann's intellectual honesty is also evident in his assessment of Eichmann's 1960 kidnapping from Argentina - his legal disapproval of the actions of the State of Israel .

Mann was honored many times, in Zurich he received an honorary doctorate, in the Federal Republic he received the Federal Cross of Merit in 1977 and 1981 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Kiel . The highest honor for himself in England was the honorary appointment as Queen's Counsel and, associated with it, the Honorary bencher of Gray's Inn . He also had an honorary doctorate from Oxford University , was a fellow of the British Academy , had one of the two English seats in the Institut de Droit international since 1973 and was Commander of the Order of the British Empire since 1980 . Herbert Smith Freehills held the 37th FA Mann lecture in his honor in 2013 at Lincoln's Inn . In 1980 he was made an honorary member of the American Society for International Law .

Mann had attended the Berlin premiere of the Wozzeck opera in 1926 , he had collected fourteen recordings of Schubert's string quintet in C major op. Post. 163 , which was played at his funeral.

Fonts (selection)

• Foreign Affairs in English Courts . London: Clarendon, 1986
• Contributions to private international law . Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1976
• The German judicial reform in the light of the English experience . Karlsruhe: CF Müller, 1965
• Considerations on an international trade law . Baden-Baden: Lutzeyer, 1962
• On the private law of the German reparations payments . Tübingen: Mohr, 1962
• On the history of the right of expropriation . Karlsruhe: CF Müller, 1960
• Are legal provisions on value protection recommended, taking into account the legal regulations in other European countries? Should Section 3 of the Currency Act be repealed or amended from this point of view? Lectures as well as contributions to discussions, theses, etc. Resolutions . Tübingen: Mohr, 1954
• On the issue of the nationality of the legal person . Tübingen: Mohr, 1952
• The legal aspect of money: with special reference to comparative and private international law . London: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1938
  • The right of money . Authorized translation by Marguerite Wolff and Lucia Serick. Frankfurt a. M.: Metzner, 1960
• The establishment in kind in stock corporation law . Mannheim: Bensheimer, 1932. Berlin, Jur. Diss., 1931
• Charles Proctor: Mann on the legal aspect of money . Previous ed. Published as: The legal aspect of money by FA Mann, 1992. Oxford Univ. Press: Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-826055-4

literature

• Geoffrey Lewis: FA man. A memoir . Hart Publishing Oxford, Oxford 2013.
• Jost Pietzcker; Horst Heinrich Jakobs; Christian Tomuschat ; Gerhard Kegel : In memoriam Frederick Alexander Mann: Speeches, held on February 8, 1992 at the commemoration of the Law and Political Science Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . University of Bonn, Faculty of Law and Political Science, 1992
  • Horst Heinrich Jakobs : Frederick Alexander Mann , in this: Commemorative speeches for Frederick Alexander Mann, Brigitte Knobbe-Keuk and Werner Flume . Göttingen: V & R Unipress 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-682-5 (= In Memoriam , 1992, pp. 9-29); also on the internet
• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 769
• Frederick Alexander Mann . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 16th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-11-011754-1 , p. 2294 .
• Lawrence Collins: Francis Alexander Mann, 1907-1991 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 84 , 1994, pp. 393-407 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Frederick Alexander Mann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Frederick Alexander Mann in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Heinrich Jakobs: Frederick Alexander Mann , 2011, p. 11
2. ↑ Alexandra Kemmerer: The monetary union could not be made palatable to this expert on monetary law , FAZ , February 1, 2014, p. 32 (unabridged version on Verfassungsblog)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Horst Heinrich Jakobs: Frederick Alexander Mann , 2011, p. 26
4. ↑ Jessica Mann: Out of Harm's Way, the story of the overseas evacuation of children during World War 2 . London: Headline, 2005
5. ↑ Christian Tomuschat in: In Memoriam , 1992, pp. 36–38
6. ↑ Horst Heinrich Jakobs: Frederick Alexander Mann , 2011, p. 23
7. ↑ Horst Heinrich Jakobs: Frederick Alexander Mann , 2011, p. 27
8. ↑ Christian Tomuschat in: In Memoriam , 1992, p. 36
9. ↑ Christian Tomuschat in: In Memoriam , 1992, p. 42
10. ↑ Frederick Alexander Mann . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 16th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-11-011754-1 , p. 2294 .
11. ↑ Horst Heinrich Jakobs: Frederick Alexander Mann , 2011, p. 29
12. ↑ Horst Heinrich Jakobs: Frederick Alexander Mann , 2011, p. 24f
13. ↑ Horst Heinrich Jakobs: Frederick Alexander Mann , 2011, p. 25f
14. ^ The 37th annual FA Mann lecture , at Herbert Smith Freehills
15. ↑ American Society of International Law - Honorary Members (PDF file, approx. 31KB)
16. ^ Gerhard Kegel in: In Memoriam , 1992, p. 51