Papers of F. A. Tuckman

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: University of Southampton Special Collections

Postal address:: Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ

Scope and content:: This collection comprises: Personal papers, 1934-8; correspondence, c. 1947-80, and autobiography. Papers relating to personnel and management consultancy work, 1962-91. Papers relating to the Anglo-Jewish Association, 1972-94, including files for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Kindertransport, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Rothschild family. Papers for the Bow Group, 1954-66; political papers for Camden Council, 1964-8, the Conservative Association in Hampstead, 1966-72 and Tuckman's prospective candidature for Coventry North, papers as MEP for Leicester and relating to the European Parliament, including subject files on the disabled, education and training, homelessness and human right, industry, Latin America, racism, small business and women's right, 1979-95.

Administrative/biographical history:: Frederick Tuckman (Friedrich August Tuchmann) was born in Magdeburg in June 1922. Tuckman studied at the Landschulheim Herrlingen, a German Jewish co-educational boarding school, 1934-8, followed by the Jewish School of Commerce in Berlin. From March 1939 to February 1940 he attended the Pitman's College, London. He served in the RAF from 1942 to 1946, firstly as a wireless operator and later running an educational vocational school. He studied for a BSc (Econ.) at the London School of Economics, 1946-9. In 1965 Tuckman joined the newly created Hay MSL. He was managing director of Hay Unternehmensberatung, Frankfurt, 1970-80, and chairman of Suomen Hay, Helsinki, 1973-81. In 1989 Tuckman set up business as a European management consultant. He was honorary secretary of the Conservative Bow Group, 1958-9, a Conservative councillor for the London Borough of Camden, 1965-71, and Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Leicester, 1979-89. Between 1981 and 1998, Tuckman was Conservative spokesman on social and employment affairs. He was President of the Anglo-Jewish Association, 1989-95 and was awarded OBE and the Grosses Verdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990.

Access points: persons/families:: Tuchmann, Friedrich August; Tuckman, Frederick

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