Benjamin Emanuel Asscher was the son of Emanuel Benjamin Asscher and Betje de Vedder.
He married Esther Cohen in 1885 in Arnhem. He had a son Emanuel Benjamin.
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He died on 5 August 1941. The 8 August issue of Het Joodsche Weekblad ran an obituary and featured a brief necrology on the front page as well.
Benjamin Emanuel Asscher was a former chairman of the Permanent General Affairs Committee of the Dutch-Jewish Congregation and of the congregation council of the Dutch-Jewish Main Synagogue and was a former member of the Amsterdam city council. Asscher chaired the congregation council for over a quarter of a century (from 5 July 1904 until 1 October 1929). In 1906 he joined the Central Committee and immediately afterwards the Permanent Committee, which he chaired from June 1918 onward. After he stepped down in 1932, Asscher continued to advise the Congregation. He chaired the Dutch chapters of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Misgab Lajeled association for many years. He was presented with a silver medal from the City of Amsterdam upon his 80th birthday.
The next week Het Joodsche Weekblad ran a more detailed necrology, in which D.M. Sluys wrote the following about Asscher:
'A logical thinker, with a keen sense of judgement, practical disposition, adept in debates, articulate in writing, speech and reasoning, devoid of melodrama and hollow rhetoric, although he often embellished his speeches with poetic metaphors and spiced them with witty remarks, highly stylistic, filled with natural humour, he permeated the ambience of a meeting, a connoisseur of law and justice, not ignorant of the religious commandments that dictate the Jewish lifestyle, without an inflated ego, moreover he possessed a strong community spirit * I have lost a great friend. I will continue to remember him with honour and gratitude as long as I live, God willing.'
Het Joodsche Weekblad, 8 August 1941, 1 and 11
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