Osmond D'Avigdor-Goldsmid

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Osmond Elim D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (born August 9, 1877 , † April 14, 1940 ) was a British politician.

Life and activity

D'Avigdor-Goldsmid was a son of Elim Henry D'Avigdor, son of a prominent banking family in London. In 1896 he added his mother's surname to his last name when he inherited the property from Sir Julian Goldsmid.

D'Avigdor-Goldsmit was educated at Harrow and Trinity Hall at Cambridge University. He took part in the First World War as a lieutenant colonel.

In 1929 D'Avigdor was elected vice chairman of the Kent County Territorial Forces Association. He was also a member of Kent County Council from 1910 to 1936. He was also vice chairman of the Tonbridge Conservative and Unionist Association from 1909 .

From 1921 to 1926 D'Avigdor-Goldsmid served as president of the AJA and from 1926 to 1933 as president of the representative body.

In the 1920s and 1930s D'Avigdor-Goldsmid also held the post of President of the Jewish Colonization Association and the British section of the Jewish Agency.

In 1934 D'Avigdor-Goldsmid was raised to the nobility as a baronet .

At the end of the 1930s, D'Avigdor-Goldsmid was classified as an important target by the police forces of Nazi Germany due to his position as a leading figure in the Jewish community in Great Britain. In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or important, which is why they should be removed from the occupation troops in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Subsequent SS special commands were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

family

In 1907 D'Avigdor-Goldsmid married Alice Landau. After his death, his son Herny D'Avigdor-Goldsmid inherited his title of nobility.

literature

  • William D. Rubinstein / Michael Jolles / Hilary L. Rubinstein: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History , p. 199.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on D'Avigdor-Goldsmid on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Osmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 1st Baronet, Osmond Elim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1877
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1940