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The German League for Human Rights (German: Deutsche Liga für Menschenrechte) was founded on 16 November 1914 as the pacifist group Bund Neues Vaterland (New Fatherland League) by pacifist activist Lilli Jannasch and others.[1] Among its members: Albert Einstein,[2] Friedrich Simon Archenhold, Walther Borgius, Elsbeth Bruck, Minna Cauer, Hans Delbrück, Kurt Eisner, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Alfred Hermann Fried, Alexander Futran, Hellmut von Gerlach, Rudolf Goldscheid, Emil J. Gumbel, Paul Guttfeld, Arthur Holitscher, Harry Graf Kessler, Gustav Landauer, Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Ernst Meyer, Georg Friedrich Nicolai, Paul Oestreich, Hans Paasche, Ludwig Quidde, Heinrich Rausch von Traubenberg, Ernst Reuter, Helene Stöcker, Leopold von Wiese, Clara Zetkin, and Stefan Zweig.[3] Based in Germany is also the 'International League for Human Rights' or Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte (ILMR), associated with the European League for Human Rights (Association Européenne pour la défense des Droits de l'Homme) AEDH and the FIDH.

References

  1. ^ Josephson, Harold (1985). Biographical dictionary of modern peace leaders. Internet Archive. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-22565-9.
  2. ^ Walter Isaacson (2007). Einstein: His Life and Universe. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-3932-2.
  3. ^ "An American in Hitler's Berlin: Abraham Plotkin's Diary 1932-33" (published 2009 by University of Illinois) page 31: (original diary December 1932): "Walter A. Berendsohn was a professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Hamburg and active member of the League for Men's Rights. He emigrated to Sweden in 1933." .. "The Deutsche Liga fur Menschenrechte had been formed out of the Bund Neues Vaterland, a pacifist organization founded in November 1914. It was forced to dissolve in 1933 because of persecution by the Nazis."


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