Israel Sieff, Baron Sieff

Israel Moses Sieff, Baron Sieff, of Brimpton in the Royal County of Berkshire FRGS ( born May 4, 1889 in Manchester, † 14 February 1972 in London) was a British businessman and politician, 1964-1967 CEO of retail company Marks & Spencer was in 1966 as a life peer, due to the Life peerages Act 1958 was a member of the House of Lords.

  • 3.1 Life
  • 3.2 Publications

Life

Family, study and supporters of Zionism

Sieff, son of Lithuanian immigrants to the UK and Manchester based Jewish businessman Ephraim Sieff graduated, after attending the Grammar School in Manchester studying economics at the University of Manchester, which he with a Bachelor of Commerce ( B.Com. ) completed. On 15 June 1910 he married Rebecca Marks, whose father Michael Marks was founded in 1894 with Thomas Spencer, the retailer Marks & Spencer.

In 1913 he got together with Simon Marks, who was married to his older sister Miriam Sieff, and Harry Sacher, another brother, who later became the first president of Israel Chaim Weizmann know, who has held a professorship at the University of Manchester at that time. Since that time, the brother- Marks, Sacher and Sieff were close friends and allies of Chaim Weizmann and supported the Zionist ideas. As such, they helped advance the first Balfour Declaration in which Britain on November 2, 1917 agreeing to build the Zionist aspirations in Palestine a " national home " of the Jewish people. In addition, cooperation meant that the Manchester Zionist center of Britain was.

Sieff was also one of the founders and article writers for the fortnightly magazine Palestine, which contributed to the formation of a public opinion in favor of Zionism in the United Kingdom. As Weizmann in 1918 as head of the Zionist Commission traveled to Palestine in order to create the basis for the implementation of the Balfour Declaration, Sieff traveled as its secretary. At this time also engaged the wives, Rebecca Sieff and Vera Weizmann, the Zionist movement and belonged in 1920 to the co-founders of the Women's International Zionist Organization ( WIZO ).

Marks & Spencer, and PEP upper house member

Later Sieff, who was a director of Marks & Spencer since 1915 supported his brother Simon Marks in the management of Marks & Spencer, after the company had moved its headquarters to London, and was at this time since 1926 as executive vice president and joint managing director instrumental in development at the company.

At the same time he became involved in the think tank Political and Economic Planning (PEP ), which he founded in 1931 together with Edward Max Nicholson, Gerald Barry, Julian Huxley, Leonard Knight Elmhirst and Basil Blackett. After he was chairman of the PEP 1931 to 1939, he served 1939-1964 as its Vice - Chairman since 1966 and was most recently its president. In addition Sieff temporarily held the position of Vice - Chairman of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland ( RAI) and was also a Fellow doeses Institute.

1934 supported the philanthropist Sieff with other family members, the establishment of the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in Rehovot, from which developed the current Weizmann Institute of Science. At the same time he also continued his Zionist commitment, and indeed at times. Honorary president of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Educational Foundation In addition, he was Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Palestine Appeal and Chairman of Carmel College in Oxfordshire.

On July 21, 1943, his person was the subject of a debate in the House of Commons. It was about a vocation in 1941 as a special adviser to a Commission of the Price Protection Agency ( Office of Price Administration), however, had already given up the Sieff.

Sieff, who was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Honorary Doctor of Law Hon LL.D. ) from the University of Manchester, after the death of Simon Marks, 1st Baron Marks of Broughton, on December 8, 1964, his successor as CEO was Marks & Spencer and held this position until 1967.

By Letters Patent of January 18, 1966 Sieff was raised due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Sieff, of Brimpton in the Royal County of Berkshire to the peerage, and was thus until his death in the House of Lords as Member of. In 1970 he published under the title The Memoirs of Israel Sieff his autobiography.

From his marriage with Rebecca Stieff four children, including sons Michael David Sieff and Marcus Sieff, who took over both also leading positions at Marks & Spencer, said Marcus Sieff in 1980 as Baron Sieff of Brimpton, of Brimpton in the Royal County of Berkshire Life was also peer and thus also belonged to the House of Lords as a member.

Publications

  • A Policy for Prosperity, London Caledonian Press, 1934
  • Proposals for a Financial Policy of the Jewish Agency, Caledonian Press, 1935
  • The Struggle for the Balfour Declaration, Jewish Agency, Department for Education and Culture, 1955
  • Jewish Values ​​and Challenges, World Jewish Congress, 1966
  • The Memoirs of Israel Sieff, 1970
  • The best laid plans ...: what is planning, what is not planning, what is a planner, co-author Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, PEP 1976

Sources and links

Life

  • Una McGovern: Chambers Biographical Dictionary. Chambers, Edinburgh, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, p 1391
  • Entry in Hansard
  • Entry in Cracroft 's Peerage
  • Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
  • Entry in The Peerage
  • Entry in the Jewish Virtual Library
  • Entry in the Dictionary of Jewish Biography
  • Entry in the National Portrait Gallery (London )
  • The Houghton Mifflin dictionary of biography, 2003, ISBN 061825210X, p 1400

Publications

  • Proof of publication in Google Books
  • Proof of publication in the Open Library
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