Jacobus H. Can

Jacobus Henricus Kann (also Jakobus H. Kann ; * July 12, 1872 in The Hague ; † October 7, 1944 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a Dutch-Jewish banker and Zionist politician, partner of the Lissa and Kann company in The Hague, one of the most important Financiers of Holland of his day and friend of David Wolffsohn . He was married and had two children.

Kann was one of the first supporters of Theodor Herzl in Holland and played a leading role in the difficult founding of the Jewish Colonial Bank (see: Bank Leumi ; Zionist Congresses ).

Herzl planned, among other things, that Kann should be a participant in the Palestine delegation to Kaiser Wilhelm (1898). However, can canceled.

Kann was a co-founder of the first Dutch Zionist organization and from 1905 to 1911 a member of the Engeren, 1905–1918 a member of the Extended Zionist Action Committee. He got into violent arguments with Herzl over issues relating to the management of the bank, resigned from management on May 3, 1900 or was ousted by Herzl before Kann was able to resign in public; But then there was a public exchange of blows in the press.

In 1907, Kann visited Palestine and published his travel impressions under the title Erez Israel (Berlin 1909). After the war, there were differences of opinion about the desired form of Palestine colonization. He therefore ended his active Zionist activity and then later resigned as director of the Jewish Colonial Trust and the Anglo Palestine Company . May was Vice President of the JCT between 1902 and 1924.

He moved to Palestine for a few years and was the Dutch consul in Jerusalem from 1923 to 1927 . Then he returned to The Hague.

Kann was killed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944; his wife, two brothers, and son were also killed.

Notes, individual references

↑ http://www.joodsmonument.nl/person/464441
↑ See, inter alia, Herzl's letter to David Wolffsohn in Cologne ( Theodor Herzl. Letters and Diaries , ed. Alex Bein et alii, Frankfurt / M. Etc. 1991 [Vol. 5], pp. 415-416): “Dear friend, Now everyone knows that Lourie was behind Kann and incited this donkey. His letter, which you enclose with me today, shows me that Kann is a donkey. So he still doesn't know what terrible push he gave the bank or tried to give. Today we are issuing an answer of a strictly confidential nature to Lourie's unheard-of circular. Can you tell your friend that he has badly rewarded the trust I put in him. He has given me one of the most bitter and costly lessons. I met this young person with the greatest sympathy and amiability, wanted to make a great person out of him (that may sound immodest) by letting him work in the foreground on a great work. Too stupid to understand, he allowed schemers to incite him against my 'tyranny'. He has sinned seriously against Zionism. I don't think for a moment what he did to me. I'm not a vain fool. I would shake hands with him today, even be the first, I would ask him to re-enter the administration - since Lourie has been eliminated - but that is impossible after his scandalous publication. I've always said it: if a Jew is stupid, he is terribly stupid. That’s the case. All the villains have not hurt us as much as this godforsaken donkey. I guarantee you that he will also have the pleasure of paying for the damage caused by his rampant stupidity ( Loewe contract etc. etc.) if he publishes a single line. He doesn't play with small children. Otherwise I am not afraid. I have encountered other difficulties than this one. Just don't have your testicles cut out and rely on your Benjamin [= Herzl] "

personal data
SURNAME	Can, Jacobus H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Can, James H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Zionist, banker and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	July 12, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	The hague
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1944
Place of death	Theresienstadt concentration camp

[1] ttp://www.joodsmonument.nl/person/464441

[2] See, inter alia, Herzl's letter to David Wolffsohn in Cologne ( Theodor Herzl. Letters and Diaries , ed. Alex Bein et alii, Frankfurt / M. Etc. 1991 [Vol. 5], pp. 415-416): “Dear friend, Now everyone knows that Lourie was behind Kann and incited this donkey. His letter, which you enclose with me today, shows me that Kann is a donkey. So he still doesn't know what terrible push he gave the bank or tried to give. Today we are issuing an answer of a strictly confidential nature to Lourie's unheard-of circular. Can you tell your friend that he has badly rewarded the trust I put in him. He has given me one of the most bitter and costly lessons. I met this young person with the greatest sympathy and amiability, wanted to make a great person out of him (that may sound immodest) by letting him work in the foreground on a great work. Too stupid to understand, he allowed schemers to incite him against my 'tyranny'. He has sinned seriously against Zionism. I don't think for a moment what he did to me. I'm not a vain fool. I would shake hands with him today, even be the first, I would ask him to re-enter the administration - since Lourie has been eliminated - but that is impossible after his scandalous publication. I've always said it: if a Jew is stupid, he is terribly stupid. That’s the case. All the villains have not hurt us as much as this godforsaken donkey. I guarantee you that he will also have the pleasure of paying for the damage caused by his rampant stupidity ( Loewe contract etc. etc.) if he publishes a single line. He doesn't play with small children. Otherwise I am not afraid. I have encountered other difficulties than this one. Just don't have your testicles cut out and rely on your Benjamin [= Herzl] "