Consul-General Eugen Landau, one of the founders and first President of the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden, who yesterday attained his 80th. birthday, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce in “grateful recognition of his great services to German industry and commerce”.
The Gold Medal is the highest distinction in the gift of the Chamber, and was recently awarded to its former President, Herr Franz von Mendelssohn, a direct descendant of Moses Mendelssohn, on his retirement.
Consul-General Landau spent his 80th. birthday quietly at his home in Berlin with the members of his family. The leading dailies pointed long articles paying tribute to his services to German economic and social life, and to his humanitarian activities, both in the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden and the many non-Jewish institutions with which he is connected.
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