Siegfried Moses

  • זיגפריד מוזס
Identifier
000856
Dates
1887-1974
Type of Entity
Person

History

German Zionist leader and Israel public official.

He was active in Jewish communal affairs as vice chairman of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, 1933–37, and as a member of the Berlin Community Council.

He settled in Palestine in 1937 and assumed the post of managing director of "Ha'avara" (transfer of Jewish assets in Germany to Palestine).

He was the chairman of the Advisory Committee of the United Restitution Organization in Israel and a member of the board of Bank Leumi. Moses wrote The Income Tax Ordinance of Palestine (1942, 1946), Jewish Post-War Claims (1944), and articles on Jewish subjects and his professional work.

Places

  • Berlin,Berlin (Berlin),City of Berlin,Germany

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