Hans Leo Lehmann

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Hans Leo Lehmann (born October 26, 1907 in Nuremberg ; † April 1992 ) was a German-British chemist, local historian and community leader.

Life and activity

Lehmann came from an Orthodox Jewish family. He was the eldest of three sons of Felix Lehmann (1882–1967) and his wife Metha, b. Lewin (1880-1974). The parents later moved to Israel.

Lehmann studied chemistry in Heidelberg and received his doctorate with a thesis on the β- Oktylinitrit to Dr. rer. nat . He then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry and at the Institute for Technology in Karlsruhe.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Lehmann decided to emigrate to Great Britain. He settled in the Golders Green district of London . For a year he worked as a researcher at the city's University College . He then worked as a chemical consultant in his own laboratory in Stamford Hill in the north of the city. In 1937 he moved - now married - to Epsom. There he became head of the local Jewish community. In this position he was responsible in particular for the acquisition of the land and building of the former Bugby Chapel in Prospect Place in 1954, in which he established the Epsom and District Synagogue, the synagogue of the community (the synagogue was consecrated in October 1954 ).

In Germany, meanwhile, Lehmann was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state. In the spring of 1940 he was placed on the special wanted list by the Reich Main Security Office , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, were to be located and arrested by special SS units that followed the occupying forces.

Lehmann was a fellow at the Royal Institute of Chemistry .

family

On January 1, 1935, Lehmann married Ellen Haas (1906–1999). He had four children with her: Hannah (* 1935), Hermann (* 1937), Rose (* 1940) and Jonathan (* 1948).

Fonts

  • On absorption and rotational dispersion of β-octyl nitrite , 1932. (Dissertation)
  • The Residential Copyholds of Epsom: From the Records of the Manor of Ebbisham, 1663-1925 , 1987.
  • (Editor): The Journal of William Schellinks´ Travels in England 1661–1663 (with Maurice Exwood)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Hans Leo Lehmann on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Hans Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British chemist, local historian and community leader
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH April 1992