Max Bodenheimer
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Max Isidor Bodenheimer (Hebrew: מקס בודנהיימר; 12 March, 1865, Stuttgart – 19 July, 1940, Jerusalem) was a lawyer and one of the main figures in German Zionism.
In 1914, he was one of co-founders of German Committee for Freeing of Russian Jews, and seems to be an author of conception of establishment League of East European States-German client state with autonomous Jewish cooperation during World War I.[1]
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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 Köln to start a law practice. In 1891 he published his first Zionist article in a Hamburg newspaper.
He had three children with Rosa Dalberg, whom he married in 1896. Simon Fritz, a professor of zoology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Henrietta Hannah, who wrote a biography of her father, and Ruth lawyer.
In 1933 he had to emigrate to Amsterdam due to rising Nazi power. He began writing memoirs in 1939, and died soon after on July 19, 1940 at age 75.
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