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Declaration of 75 Notables against Antisemitism (November 12, 1880)

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Berlin, November 12, 1880


Professor Dr. med. Albrecht; - Professor Dr. Arndt; - C.F. Arndt, Elder of the Berlin Merchants; - Professor A. Auwers*; - Principal of the Realschule, Dr. Bach; - Beisert, Deputy and Legal Advisor of the Berlin Merchants; - City School Inspector Professor Dr. Bertram; - Professor Bruns**, Doctor of Law; - Dr. Cauer, City School Inspector; - Ed. Conrad, President of the Elders of the Berlin Merchants; - Contenius, Lawyer; A. Delbrück, Elder of the Berlin Merchants; - G. Dietrich, Vice President of the Elders of the Berlin Merchants; - Professor Dr. Droysen***; - Government Privy Councilor and Mayor Duncker; Commercial Council Eger; - Dr. Engel, Senior Government Privy Councilor - Ad. Enslin, Publishing Bookseller. - Lord Mayor Dr. von Forckenbeck. - Professor Dr. Förster+, Director of the Observatory. - A. Frentzel, Elder of the Berlin Merchants. - Dr. Gallenkamp, Principal of the Vocational School. - Commercial Privy Councilor Fr. Gelpcke. - City Elder Gesenius. - Professor Dr. Gneist. Commercial Councilor E. Hergersberg. - Hermes, City Councilor. Professor Dr. Hofmann, currently President of the University. Professor Dr. Hofmann, Grammar School Principal. - Dr. Friedrich Kapp. - Karsten, Lawyer. - Jul. Kauffmann, Elder of the Berlin Merchants. -G. Keibel, Elder of the Berlin Merchants. - Professor Kirchhoff, Member of the Academy of the Sciences. - Dr. Koerte, Public Health Privy Councilor. - H. Kochhann, Elder of the Berlin Merchants. - Senior Government Privy Councilor, retired. D. Kieschke, Deputy.- Koffka, Lawyer. – Director of the District Court, Kowalzig. - Krebs, Lawyer. - Dr. Kürten, City Councilor. - Laué, Lawyer. - Lesse, Lawyer. - Director of the District Court, Lessing. - Dr. Lisco++, Preacher. - Professor Dr. Th. Mommsen. - Noeldechen, City Councilor. - P. Parey, Publishing Bookseller. - Hans Reimer, Bookseller. - Senior Medical Privy Councilor Reichert, Member of the Academy of the Sciences+++. - Rikkert, Deputy. - Runge, City Councilor. - Sarre, City Councilor. - Professor Dr. W. W. Scherer*+. - Dr. Schroeder, Professor of Medicine. - Schmeidler, Preacher. - Schrader, Railway Director. - Schroeder, Justice of the Court of Appeal. - Professor Dr. Schwalbe, Principal of the Realschule. - Dr. Werner Siemens, Member of the Academy of the Sciences**+. - Dr. Georg Siemens, Director of Deutsche Bank. - E. Stephan, Commercial Privy Councilor. - Stephan, Governments and State Economy Councilor, retired. - Struve, Deputy.- Stubenrauch, Lawyer. - Dr. Thomas, Preacher. - Professor Dr. Virchow. - Professor Dr. Wattenbach. - Professor Dr. Weber, Member of the Academy of the Sciences***+. - Dr. Max Weber, City Councilor and Deputy*++. - Dr. Wegscheider, Public Health Privy Councilor. - von Wilmowski, Lawyer. - Zelle, City Legal Advisor.


* Professor of Astronomy, permanent Secretary of the physical-mathematical section of the Berlin Academy of the Sciences. (All footnotes are taken from: Karstein Krieger, ed., Der “Berliner Antisemitismusstreit” 1879-1881. Eine Kontroverse um die Zugehörigkeit der deutschen Juden zur Nation. Kommentierte Quellenedition [The “Berlin Antisemitism Conflict” 1879-1881. A Controversy Over Whether German Jews Belong to the Nation. Annotated Source Edition], 2 parts. Munich: K.G. Saur, 2003-2004, Part 2, pp. 551-54.)
** Professor of Roman Law.
*** Johann Gustav Droysen.
+ Father of the social education theorist, politician, and pacifist Friedrich Wilhelm Förster.
++ As a theologically liberal preacher at the Neue Kirche (New Church), in 1872 he got caught in a conflict with his church authority concerning the apostolic creed.
+++ Professor of General Anatomy and specialist for Evolutionary History.
*+ Founder of the positivist method in literary studies.
**+ Engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur in the field of electrical engineering.
***+ Professor of Indian Literature and Language.
*++ Father of the famous sociologists of the same name.



Source: This declaration was published in various Berlin newspapers, including the Berliner Börsen-Courier, on November 14, 1880.

Original German text reprinted in Karstein Krieger, ed., Der “Berliner Antisemitismusstreit” 1879-1881. Eine Kontroverse um die Zugehörigkeit der deutschen Juden zur Nation. Kommentierte Quellenedition [The “Berlin Antisemitism Conflict” 1879-1881. A Controversy Over Whether German Jews Belong to the Nation. Annotated Source Edition], 2 parts. Munich: K.G. Saur, 2003-2004, Part 2, pp. 551-54.

Translation: Erwin Fink

For additional materials on the history of Antisemitism, please visit the following website: www.saur.de/zeitgeschichte-online. There you will find information on K.G. Saur's new internet database, "National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933-1945."

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