Yeshayahu Funder

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Herbert Yeshayahu Foerder ( Hebrew ישעיהו פורדר; born March 25, 1901 in Charlottenburg ; died June 10, 1970 in Tel Aviv ) was a German and Israeli lawyer and politician .

Life

Herbert Foerder was born as the son of Ivan Foerder and his wife Helena (née Robinsohn). He studied law and economics at the universities of Freiburg , Heidelberg and Breslau and received his doctorate in 1923. He was a member of the Cartel of Jewish Associations . From 1924 to 1926 he was political secretary in the Zionist Association for Germany . In 1926 he married Gertrud Simon (née Mainz) and together they have a daughter Miriam (born 1929). From 1927 to 1933 he worked as a lawyer in Berlin and was a delegate to Zionist congresses . In 1933 the family emigrated to the League of Nations Mandate Palestine .

In the British- controlled League of Nations mandate area, Yeshayahu was involved in the Provisional People's Council (Va'ad Leummi) as a member of the Aliyah Hadashah (a party of immigrants of German origin in Palestine) and was elected to the constituent assembly , later the first Knesset, on January 25, 1949 , elected as a member of the Miflaga Progresivit (Progressive Party). In the elections in 1951 ( second Knesset ) and 1955 ( third Knesset ) he returned to the Knesset . He ended the third legislative period prematurely on October 28, 1957.

In addition to his political activities, he was mainly co-founder in 1934 and head of the Rassco housing Company until 1957, Chairman of the Board of General Mortage of Israel , on the Board of Directors of Bank Leumi , the Union Bank of Israel and the Independent Development Bank of Israel. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Anglo-Israel Bank of London.

literature

  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 94.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Foerder, Herbert Yeshayahu. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol.1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 182
  2. ^ Kurt Loewenstein: Foerder, Yeshayahu . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . January 1, 2007 ( HTML [accessed February 13, 2014] accessible from the HighBeam Research newspaper / magazine archive ). HTML ( Memento from June 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Yeshayahu Funding. In: Knesset Members. Knesset , accessed February 13, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Itamar Rabinovich, Jehuda Reinharz (ed.): Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present . University Press of New England, Lebanon 2008, ISBN 978-0-87451-962-4 , Chapter 3: Sinai Campain to Six-Day War, pp. 180 f . (P. 180 - Second Edition).
  5. ^ Jewish Telegraphic Agency (ed.): Dr. Yeshayahu Foerder, Leading Banker and Economist in Israel, Dies at Age 69 . June 12, 1970 ( HTML [accessed February 13, 2014]).
personal data
SURNAME Foerder, Yeshayahu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foerder, Herbert Yeshayahu (full name); ישעיהו פורדר (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician (Miflaga Progresivit), banker
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1970
Place of death Tel Aviv