Frederick Augustus Tuckman

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(9 June 1922 – 6 July 2017) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a

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(MEP) from

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Early life

Friedrich August Tuchmann was born in

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, Germany. He came from a wealthy Jewish family, the son of a German father and a British mother. Tuchmann attended Landschulheim Herrlingen from 1934 until 1938. In March 1939, he relocated to London, where he stayed with an uncle in Hampstead and went to Pitman's College. Tuchmann was naturalised as a British citizen and volunteered in 1942 in the Royal Air Force (RAF). He was trained as a radar technician and was later able to work in vocational education. He was demobilised in October 1946 and studied at the

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(LSE) from 1946 to 1949. In 1949 he changed his name and became Frederick (Fred) Tuckman.

Career

After graduating, Tuckman started his career in business. He worked for Marks & Spencer and in 1965 joined the consulting firm Hay Group. For this company he worked in South Africa, Germany and Finland. Tuckman was a councillor for the Adelaide ward on the

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from 1968 to 1971. He fought Coventry North unsuccessfully in

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. He was elected as MEP for

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and in

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but was defeated in

. He was made an

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in the 1990 New Year Honours. He also served as president of the

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(1989–1995). He died on 6 July 2017, aged 95.

References

1922 births 2017 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MEPs MEPs for England 1979–1984 MEPs for England 1984–1989 Officers of the Order of the British Empire Jewish British politicians Councillors in the London Borough of Camden Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) councillors {{UK-politician-stub