Georg Kareski

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Georg (Gedalya) Kareski (born October 21, 1878 in Posen , † August 2, 1947 in Ramat Gan ) was a German banker. He was director of the Jewish cooperative bank Iwria, which he founded in 1927, and was also a Zionist politician (see Jewish People's Party ).

Life

From 1920 he was on the board of the Berlin Jewish Community , from 1928 to 1930 as chairman of the board. He made the community his political base and was one of the founders of the Jewish People's Party, which represented Zionist principles and at the same time turned against liberal Judaism . He was also the president of the Betar youth movement and head of the Bar Kochba sports club . Kareski was one of the directors of the Iwria Bank until its bankruptcy in 1937. He played a role in 1935 in controversies about the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden .

As head of the right-wing revisionist State Zionist Organization (since 1934) Kareski requested the exodus of the Jews from National Socialist Germany at an early stage and was prepared to organize the emigration, if necessary, in cooperation with the Gestapo and the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Saul Friedländer describes Kareski as “a vocal but marginal personality even within German Zionism ”.

Kareski emigrated to Eretz Israel and worked as the head of the Kupat Cholim le Ovdim Le'umiim .

Archival material

  • The Viennese newspaper Die Voice often reported on controversies about Kareski. Many editions, nos. 498, 502, 506, 508, 519 can be found as .pdf full texts in the Frankfurt University Library , access via search engines, in the spelling "Karcski"; z. B. Issue v. December 10, 1935
  • The revue Die neue Welt , edited by Robert Stricker , which was close to a "Jewish State Party", reported on April 5, 1935, No. 453, title page lower half, in detail about the opinion of "Karcskis" (sic), same archive location as before, online readable. An attached comment exacerbates Kareski's statements, the unknown author assumes that Hitler is ultimately planning the "extermination" of the Jews "all over the world".
  • His personal estate is in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People , CA, in Jerusalem

literature

  • Kurt Blumenfeld : Experienced Jewish question. A quarter of a century of German Zionism , Stuttgart 1962, p. 188
  • Otto Dov Kulka : German Judaism under National Socialism , Volume 1: Documents on the History of Legal Representation of German Jews 1933–1939, Series of Scientific Papers by the Leo Baeck Institute 54, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1997, p. 318ff.
  • Herbert Levine: A Jewish Collaborator in Nazi Germany. The Strange Career of Georg Kareski, 1933-1937 , in: Central European History 8 (1975), pp. 251-281.
  • Francis R. Nicosia : Revisionist Zionism in Germany (II): Georg Kareski and the Staatszionistische Organization, 1933–1938 , in: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 32/1 (1987), pp. 231–267.
  • Francis R. Nicosia: A Useful Enemy. Zionism in National Socialist Germany 1933-1939 , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 37/3 (1989), pp. 367-400. ( Digital version (PDF; 9.7 MB) of the complete issue)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Karcski's target in late 1935 was the National Association of Jewish Cultural Leagues ", Kreutzberger estate, see web links, section 266
  2. ↑ Saul Friedländer: The Third Reich and the Jews. Revised special edition in one volume, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56681-3 , p. 74.
  3. ^ Archives Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem
  4. ↑ Frequent information about Kareski, often due to automatic transcription errors, mostly "Karcski" written here (see also above, archival documents for this spelling). About connections with the Reich Association of Jews in Germany (also called Reich Association here), with Georg Landauer , Kurt Blumenfeld and Hans Mielzynski
personal data
SURNAME Kareski, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kareski, Gedalya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and politician (Jewish People's Party)
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1947
Place of death Ramat Gan