Michael Kerr (lawyer)

Sir Michael Robert Emanuel Kerr PC ( born March 1, 1921 in Berlin -Charlottenburg, † April 14, 2002 in London) was a British lawyer and author of German origin. His childhood experiences in exile from Nazi Germany were motivated by the autobiographical book When Hitler stole pink rabbit and wait until peace comes known his sister Judith Kerr.

Life

Michael Kerr was the son of theater critic Alfred Kerr and his wife Julia. After the " seizure of power" in 1933 his mother fled with him and his sister to Switzerland and later to France and England. The father had previously fled across Prague to Switzerland.

Thanks a conveyor his father Michael Kerr was able to attend private schools in England. Kerr had the desire to differ in no way from the upper class of the host and new homeland England. During the Second World War he worked as Enemy Alien interned on the Isle of Man, but later flew as a pilot of the Royal Air Force. After the war he graduated from then at Clare College, Cambridge, his law degree. About the High Court - since the 12th century this institution had no judge, who was not born in England, been a member - and the Court of Appeal led him to his career International Arbitration Court in London. He was raised as one of the leading lawyers in the UK in the peerage.

In his autobiography As Far As I Remember, he reported on the one hand about his family background, which are already quite familiar to the readers of Judith Kerr's books, however, on the other hand about his experiences with the English legal system. His concise, analytical approaches to language in places of his father.

Work

As Far As I Remember. Hart Publishing, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84113-565-8.