Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
Life
His father John Shawcross was Professor of English Literature at Giessen and worked as a translator of the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe into English, his mother, Hilda Constance Asher, a dedicated suffragette.
He attended school in London's Dulwich and studied at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. A license to practice law as a barrister - at-law, he received in 1925 by the Bar Gray's Inn, where he was in 1939 and 1955 Bencher Treasurer ( Treasurer ). Shawcross was in 1939 (King 's Counsel ) appointed as youngest person to Crown Counsel. In 1941 he was Justice of the Peace ( Justice of the Peace, comparable to an arbitrator ) for Sussex, from 1941 to 1944 he was recorder ( magistrates ) for Salford, this office he held from 1946 to 1961 for Kingston upon Thames from.
After the war he joined as chief prosecutor of the United Kingdom on at the Nuremberg Trials, where he earned due to his legal expertise and his dignified appearance great reputation among the Allied victors. His most famous quote from the Nuremberg Trials is the beginning of his indictment: " Heartless killers, looters and conspirators as second to none the world has not yet seen. " On the other hand, he also sparked by a poorly -researched reference in his closing argument the Nuremberg Goethe- scandal that cast a shadow on the legal " cleanliness " of the process.
After that, he was from 1946 to 1951 as Attorney General in the Cabinet Member Attlee From April 1951 to October 1951, he was President of the Board of Trade (roughly equivalent to a Minister of Commerce). From 1946 to 1958 he represented for the Labour Party constituency St. Helens in the House. In addition, he was from 1945 to 1949 Britain's delegate to the UN General Assembly. From 1950 to 1967 he was for his country he the permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
However, the final political ascension He always denied: Both the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Office of the Labour party leader, for which he was placed at the beginning of the 1950s into the game, eventually went on to others. However, Shawcross never pulled back completely from politics: In later years, he was critical of the Anglo- American alliance against Hitler's Germany.
Private life
Shawcross was married three times, first on May 24, 1924 Alberta Rosita Shyvers († December 30, 1944 ), the daughter of William Shyvers, then on September 21, 1944 Joan Winifred Mather ( † 26 January 1974), daughter of Hume Mather, and on 18 April 1997 in Gibraltar Susanne Monique Huiskamp. With his second wife he had two sons and a daughter. He lived in 1999 in Friston near Eastbourne in Sussex, England and died at the age of 101 years in Cowbeech, East Sussex, Attlee as the last surviving member of the government of Clement.
Honors
1945 Shascross was admitted as an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 1974 and named Chevalier ( Knight). Since 1946 he is a member of the Privy Council. From 1934 to 1969 him the title of Honorary Doctor of Laws, and was once nine times that of a Masters of Law honorary awarded.
Works (selection)
- H. Shawcross: Life Sentence. Constable, London 1995, ISBN 0-09-474980-9.