Zionist Federation of Germany
Largest Zionist Organisation
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The Zionist Federation of Germany (German: Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland) also known as the Zionist Association for Germany was a Zionist organisation in Germany that was formed in 1897 in Cologne by Max Bodenheimer, together with David Wolffsohn and Fabius Schach.[1] It had attracted 10,000 members by 1914[2] and was by far the largest Zionist organisation in Germany.[3] The group supported the 1933 Haavara Agreement between Nazi Germany and German Zionist Jews which was designed to encourage German Jews to emigrate to Palestine.[4] They also opposed the Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 fearing that it could make the existing Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses more severe.[5]
Presidents
- Max Bodenheimer (1894–1910)
- Arthur Hantke (1910–1920)
- Felix Rosenblüth (1920–1923)
- Alfred Landsberg (1923–1924)
- Kurt Blumenfeld (1924–1933)
- Siegfried Moses (1933–1937)
- Hans Friedenthal, since 1936 per pro