Max Bodenheimer
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Stuttgart
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– 19 July, 1940, Jerusalem) was a lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
and one of the main figures in German
Germany
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Zionism
Zionism
Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...
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In 1914, he was one of co-founders of German Committee for Freeing of Russian Jews
German Committee for Freeing of Russian Jews
The German Committee for the Freeing of Russian Jews was created in August, 1914 by Franz Oppenheimer, Adolf Friedman and Leo Motzkin to lobby for the socio-political liberation of Jewish people living in the Russian Empire and ensuring their protection from pogroms...
, and seems to be an author of conception of establishment League of East European States
League of East European States
The League of East European States was a political idea conceived during World War I for the establishment of a buffer state within the Jewish Pale of Settlement of Russia, composed of the former Polish provinces annexed by Russia, which would be a de facto protectorate of the German Empire in...
-German client state with autonomous Jewish cooperation during World War I
World War I
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Life
Bodenheimer was born on March 12, 1865 in Stuttgart. He studied at Tübingen, Strassburg, Berlin and Freiburg universities from 1884 to 1889. In 1890 he moved to KölnKOLN
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to start a law practice. In 1891 he published his first Zionist article in a Hamburg
Hamburg
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newspaper.
He had three children with Rosa Dalberg, whom he married in 1896. Simon Fritz
Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer
Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer was an Israeli biologist and zoologist.-Biography:Bodenheimer was born in Germany to parents, Max Bodenheimer, a leading Zionist, and Rosa Dalberg. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine, now Israel, in 1922.-See also:* List of Israel Prize recipients* Bodenheimer...
, a professor of zoology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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, Henrietta Hannah, who wrote a biography of her father, and Ruth lawyer.
In 1933 he had to emigrate to Amsterdam
Amsterdam
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due to rising Nazi power. He began writing memoirs in 1939, and died soon after on July 19, 1940 at age 75.