Dieter Graumann

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Dieter Graumann speaks at a rally against hatred of Jews in Berlin, September 2014

Dieter Graumann (born August 20, 1950 in Ramat Gan , Israel as David Graumann ) was President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany from November 28, 2010 to November 30, 2014 and has been Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress since May 6, 2013 . He thus succeeded Charlotte Knobloch in both cases .

Life

Dieter Graumann was born in 1950 in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv ( Israel ) as the son of Polish Shoah survivors who met and got married in the Zeilsheim DP camp . He came to Germany with his parents when he was one and a half years old and has lived in Frankfurt am Main ever since . As he himself reported later, his parents explained to him shortly before he started school that his name will be Dieter from now on : "In Germany, it is better not to attract attention as a Jew."

After graduating from high school, he studied economics at the University of Frankfurt and finally law at King's College in London . He received his doctorate in 1979 on the European Monetary Union and worked for two and a half years in the economics department of the Deutsche Bundesbank . In addition, he was president of Makkabi Frankfurt for many years and is currently honorary president of the club.

Graumann operates a property management company privately. He has been a board member of the Frankfurt Jewish Community since 1995 and its department head for finance, schools, cultural work and the press. He is also a member of the Georg and Franziska Speyer University Foundation named after Georg Speyer .

In August 2009 he announced that he would run for the office of President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. As one of the two incumbent vice-presidents, Graumann was elected president on November 28, 2010, with no opposing candidates, and took office on the same day. He is the first President of the Central Council who did not experience the Shoah himself.

Graumann honors the German memory of Nazi victims as exemplary.

In the run-up to the 2012 European Football Championship in Poland and Ukraine , Graumann demanded that the German national team visit Auschwitz or Babyn Yar . The visit of a DFB delegation to Auschwitz in the run-up to the European Football Championship in 2012 was, however, heavily criticized by him. The delegation of players was too small, said Graumann, who was interested in football, and criticized team manager Oliver Bierhoff in the broader context for using the term “fireside chat”.

Graumann described the judgment of the Cologne regional court on June 27, 2012, which ruled the circumcision of small children as bodily harm, as "cold", "specialist legal" and "without a feeling for religion". Circumcision has been carried out in Judaism for over 4,000 years and a consistent further thinking of this judgment would mean that Jewish life in Germany would in fact be made impossible.

Also in 2012, the Kösel-Verlag published Graumann's book Nachgeboren - Vorverbindet? The future of Judaism in Germany . In it he mainly deals with the anti-Zionism of the Left Party and the Islamists .

In June 2013, Dieter Graumann spoke up when the rabbi of Offenbach am Main was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack in a lively shopping center there on broad daylight. The ZDJ President described the details of the act, which was committed by six to eight “southern-looking” young people, as “a shame for us all”. It was particularly regrettable that the rabbi was not really assisted by either the security service of the shopping center or (initially) the police.

In July 2014, he called for the violent anti-Semitic acts in Germany and Europe to be countered in connection with the newly erupted conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The fact that Graumann repeatedly compared the anti-Semitic incidents on the fringes of pro-Palestinian rallies with the persecution of Jews under National Socialism was criticized by anti-Semitism experts as well as by voices within Judaism as trivializing the situation of the Jews during the Nazi era; the proportion of anti-Semites in the population is constant.

On October 31, 2014, the Central Council announced that Dieter Graumann would not run again for the office of President of the Central Council in the upcoming new election on November 30.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Graumann: "I have to go my own way". In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 28, 2010, on: tagesspiegel.de
  2. ↑ a b Jewish Central Council: Dieter Graumann succeeds Knobloch. Press release on succession on focus.de from November 28, 2010.
  3. ↑ Dr. Dieter Graumann new Vice President of the World Jewish Congress (Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R.)
  4. ↑ The good Dieter and the biting David on TAZ.de
  5. ^ Ceremony 60 years of Israel Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 30, 2013.
  6. ↑ Dr. Dieter Graumann is running for election as President of the Central Council , Central Council press release of September 6, 2010.
  7. ↑ Between departure and fear. about Dieter Graumann, by Matthias Drobinski , Süddeutsche Zeitung, from November 28, 2010.
  8. ↑ Graumann honors German memory of Nazi victims as exemplary. on: derwesten.de , January 27, 2012.
  9. ↑ Central Council of Jews calls for signs - At the EM: National-Elf should visit Auschwitz. bild.de , March 7, 2012, accessed on August 6, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Graumann complains about the DFB's visit to Auschwitz, welt.de. Retrieved June 7, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Outrage over the prohibition of religious circumcision: "The judgment makes Jewish life impossible". tagesschau.de, June 27, 2012, archived from the original on June 30, 2012 ; Retrieved June 27, 2012 .
  12. ^ Matthias Bertsch: No fixation on the Holocaust . Deutschlandradio Kultur from October 26, 2012, accessed on October 31, 2014
  13. ↑ Youngsters attack rabbi in a shopping center , Die Welt, June 7, 2013
  14. ↑ z. B. MDR-Aktuell from July 21, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
  15. ↑ Anti-Semitism in Germany. German flag on the door. In: Spiegel Online from August 8, 2014.
  16. ↑ Change at the top: Graumann withdraws from the Central Council of Jews , Spiegel Online from October 31, 2014, accessed on October 31, 2014
  17. ↑ FAZ.net and FASZ of November 30, 2014: "I had no grandparents - and I knew why"
personal data
SURNAME Graumann, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graumann, David (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, President of the Central Council of Jews
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramat Gan , Israel