Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden

The Reich Association of German Jews located in Berlin, was founded on 17 September 1933. You should be the advocacy of the Jews in Germany, its president of the Berlin Rabbi Leo Baeck was elected its Executive Chairman was Otto Hirsch. Some groups of orthodox Jews who are members of the Association of National German Jews and a splinter group of Zionist Revisionists, to the Association did not join. Nevertheless, comprised the Reichsvertretung almost all major Jewish organizations, as well as all major religious communities. The main tasks included the promotion of cohesion, the Jewish self-help and Hachshara with regard to the emigration to Palestine.

The adoption of the Nuremberg Race Laws, the Association had to rename 1935 Reich Association of Jews in Germany.

1938 from the Reich Association of National Association of Jews in Germany, where all the Jews of the faith of the Old Reich were contributions. The National Association held a number of administrative tasks; because as a result of mass emigration many communities were personnel no longer able to care for orphaned property and to manage and fulfill their traditional duties.

In February 1939, the organization came under the name of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany to a brief interlude as the last independent representation of interests of the Jews. In order to finance the support of the impoverished members, she rose from the emigrants a graduated property tax of up to ten percent.

A little later, in July 1939, these previously independent Jewish advocacy that with the partial continuation of the former Jewish welfare work and the organization of Jewish education has been transformed while keeping the name Reich Association of Jews in Germany by the Nazi authorities in a quasi- public administrative body, was commissioned and had run only instructions of the Reich Security Main Office to its gradual dissolution in 1943.

Successor organizations after 1945

Today represented eV among others, the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Central Welfare Office of Jews in Germany and the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany, the interests of the Jews in the Federal Republic.