Harry Samuels

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Harry Samuels (born November 18, 1893 in Liverpool , † 1976 ) was a British lawyer.

Life and activity

Samuels was a son of the jeweler Morris Samuels and his wife Rose, b. Hyams. He attended Liverpool College from 1907 to 1912 . He then studied law at Wadham College, Oxford University, where he earned a master's degree (with honors ). In 1923 he was admitted as a barrister -at-law in London. His focus was on business law , labor law and trade union law.

Since the 1920s, Samuels also excelled by publishing numerous books on legal topics. He was also a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica .

As a lawyer, Samuels served on numerous committees: He was a member of the Islington and East London Rent Ribunal (since 1946 as chairman), the Confectionery and Food Preserving Wages Committee and the Consultative Committee on Kosher Meat Prices.

Due to his position as a well-known Jew in public life in Great Britain, at the end of the 1930s Samuels was targeted by the police forces of National Socialist Germany, who classified him as an important target: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people , which the Nazi surveillance apparatus regarded as particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be located and arrested with special priority by the occupying forces following special SS units in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht.

Samuels was a member of the London Reform Club . In 1958 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire .

family

Samuels had been married to Celine Aronowitz since September 11, 1918. From the marriage the son Michael and the daughter Miriam, who became known as an actress under the name Miriam Karlin , emerged.

Fonts

  • The Country Councilor , 1925.
  • Education Committees, their Powers and Duties , 1928.
  • Industrial Law , Pitman, 1929. (7th edition 1967)
  • Pensions and Superannuation Funds , 1930. (with Bernard Robertson)
  • The Local Government Act, 1933 , 1934.
  • Factory Law , Knight & Co., 1937. (8th edition 1969)
  • Industrial Workers' Guide , Pitman, 1944. (Translations into Hebrew and Czech)
  • Trade Union Law , 1946. (7th edition 1966; translation into Japanese)
  • Industrial Injuries , 1947.
  • Rent Tribunals , 1949.
  • Law Relating to Shops , 1952. (3rd edition 1964)
  • The Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act, 1963 , 1963. (2nd edition 1971)
  • Noter-Up and Supplement to Factory Law , 1965.
  • Redundancy Payments. An Annotation and Guide to the Redundancy Payments Act , Knight & Co., 1965.
  • The County Council. What it is and what it does , 1969.

literature

  • Clare D. Kinsman / Christine Nasso: Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and their Works , 1975, pp. 694f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Harry Samuels on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Samuels, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH 1976