Funeral services will be held on Sunday at the Free Synagogue for Prof. Georg Bernhard, one of the notable public figures of pre-Nazi Germany who died yesterday at the Harlem Hospital following an attack of pneumonia. He was 69 years old.
A distinguished political economist and publicist, Professor Bernhard was connected for 30 years with the famous Ullstein Press in Germany, being for 17 years editor-in-chief of the Vossische Zeitung, the leading newspaper in Berlin. Immediately after Hitler’s advent to power, Professor Bernhard was among the first 33 distinguished German citizens expatriated by the Nazi regime. After his exile, he took up residence in Paris where in 1953 he founded the Pariser Tageblatt, of which he became editor-in-chief. He remained in France until it was conquered by Germany, when he escaped to the United States where he found asylum in February 1941. He had previously visited the United States in 1936, when he came here at the invitation of the American Jewish Congress to be the principal speaker at its convention in Washington in June of that year.
Professor Bernhard’s journalistic career included the presidency of the German Press Association. He was in succession president of the Association of Journalists attached to the League of Nations, and from 1928 to 1932 president of the International Federation of Journalists. His career included membership in the Reichstag and membership in the Reichstag Economic Council. He held an appointment for life as a professor of economics at the Commercial Academy of Berlin and served on the Board of Trustees of the Reichsbank.
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