Hermann Mannheim

Hermann Mannheim, who lived from 1889 to 1974, was a German-British criminologist who had served as a judge and academic in Germany until the Nazi civil service law's Aryan clause stripped him of his positions in 1933, prompting him to move to London in 1934. He joined the London School of Economics as a lecturer in criminology the following year, becoming a reader in criminology in 1946, and in 1950 he co-founded and began co-editing the British Journal of Criminology, a post he held until 1966. The London School of Economics later named its Mannheim Centre for Criminology in his honor, reflecting his role as one of the founding figures of academic criminology in Britain.