Club of Helgoland

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The Helgoland Club was a German social club whose meetings took place in the Helgoland Konversationshaus ( Kurhaus ) and in the Hotel Bristol ( Unter den Linden ) in Berlin . It existed from 1925 to 1938.

Members were (often Jewish) Hamburg and Berlin bankers, impoverished high nobility and politicians from different directions (e.g. Albert Südekum or Wilhelm Cuno ). Native Heligoland did not belong to it. It was founded by the Helgoland district administrator Gustav Etzel , the member of the board of directors of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith Ernst Wallach and by Prince Bernhard zur Lippe, father of the later Dutch Prince Consort Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld . Many of its 170 members also belonged to the German Men's Club , Berlin.

According to their statutes, “The purpose of the club was ... to promote Heligoland as a seaside resort and to maintain sociability on Heligoland.” District Administrator Etzel also used the club in 1928/29 for his fight against separatist movements on Heligoland. The club became an opponent of the early National Socialists on Heligoland. The abbreviation CvH was anti-Semitically translated as the "Cohns of Helgoland". Ernst Wallach was expelled from Heligoland in 1933, and club life also ended with the death of his chairman Prince Bernhard zur Lippe in 1934. Other prominent members were Hans Albers and Emil Jannings .

literature

  • Eckhard Wallmann: A colony becomes German - Heligoland between the world wars. Bredstedt 2012.