He was educated in German yeshivot and acquired a legal degree after attending Frankfurt and Heidelberg universities between 1920 and 1925.
[1] He married teacher and Bais Yaakov educator Dr Judith Rosenbaum on 22 November 1932.
[2] He worked as a lawyer in Würzburg until 1933, when the Nazis' rise to power prompted them to move, initially to Palestine and then to London.
After initially working in the legal field, he underwent rabbinical training and became a member of the London Beth Din.
[3] In 1954 a heart attack led to his early retirement from the London Beth Din.