Education
The son of a prominent Erfurt lawyer, he studied at the Gymnasium, before being called up for military service in 1916.
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The son of a prominent Erfurt lawyer, he studied at the Gymnasium, before being called up for military service in 1916.
He was Secretary of the British Friends of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem 1944-1971, Governor of the University 1972-1993, Senior Associate Fellow at Street Antony"s College, Oxford 1971-1988 and author of several books and articles, many of them about Israel and its international relations. After the war, he went on to study law, philosophy and economics in Jena and Berlin. After a brief period as an assistant to one of the leading lawyers in Berlin, he set up his own practice in the city.
In 1929, he took a one year leave from his practice to study economics at the London School of Economics and the Sorbonne University.
Of Jewish heritage, he emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom in 1937. Still a German citizen, he was interned for ten months as an enemy alien on the Isle of Manitoba during World World War World War II