Frederick Tuckman
{{Short description|British politician (1922–2017)}}
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Frederick Augustus Tuckman OBE (9 June 1922 – 6 July 2017) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1989.{{MEP|1506|Frederick Tuckman}}
Early life
Friedrich August Tuchmann was born in Magdeburg, 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 London School of Economics (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 Camden London Borough council from 1968 to 1971.{{Cite web |title=Tuckman, Frederick Augustus, (Fred), (9 June 1922 – 6 July 2017) |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-38141 |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38141|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}
He fought Coventry North unsuccessfully in 1970. He was elected as MEP for Leicester in 1979 and in 1984 but was defeated in 1989.
He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1990 New Year Honours. He also served as president of the Anglo-Jewish Association (1989–1995).{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/1996/96returns/96ac738.htm|title=The National Archives | Search other Archives | Accessions to Repositories | Major Accessions to Repositories 1996: Southampton University Library|website=nationalarchives.gov.uk}}
He died on 6 July 2017, aged 95.{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=frederick-tuckman-obe&pid=186048722|title=Frederick Tuckman OBE|website=Legacy.com }}
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Category:Conservative Party (UK) MEPs
Category:MEPs for England 1979–1984
Category:MEPs for England 1984–1989
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Jewish British politicians
Category:Councillors in the London Borough of Camden
Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
Category:Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Category:Conservative Party (UK) councillors
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