Uri Yadin

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Uri Yadin (born as Rudolf Heinsheimer on March 31, 1908 in Baden-Baden ; died on November 29, 1985 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli lawyer.

Life

Rudolf Otto Heinsheimer came from a German academic family. His father Friedrich Heinsheimer (1873–1935) was a doctor, his mother Emma Willstätter (1880–1957) was persecuted as a Jew and died in New York City. His uncle Karl Heinsheimer and his grandfather Max Heinsheimer were Heidelberg law professors. His brother Hans Heinsheimer fled and became a music publisher in the USA. Rudolf Heinsheimer emigrated to Palestine in 1933 and married the pediatrician Lea in 1934, whom he had met while studying in Germany. Her daughters are the teacher Ada (1936–1973) and the historian Shulamit Volkov .

Heinsheimer studied law and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1930 . He began his legal clerkship in 1931 and from 1931 was an assistant at the law faculty of Berlin University . After power was handed over to the National Socialists , he was dismissed and banned from working . He reached Palestine in March 1933 and passed a bar exam for foreigners under British administration in 1934. In Palestine he changed his name. From 1934 to 1936 he worked as a law clerk and then opened a law firm. After the establishment of the State of Israel, he worked in the attorney general's office from 1948, where he was head of the legislative department, from 1949 director of legal planning in the Israeli Ministry of Justice and from 1958 deputy attorney general. Yadin was a member of the Israel Judiciary Committee.

From 1951, Yadin also lectured on corporate law, constitutional law and comparative law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , which appointed him as visiting associate professor in 1970 . Yadin was a co-founder and intermittent editor of the Israel Law Review . He has published a variety of studies and papers.

Fonts (selection)

  • Introduction to The Israeli criminal procedure law, 1925-1965 . South Hackensack, NJ: Rothman, 1967

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol.1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 839

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