The democratic students at the University at Giessen, in Hessen, have elected a Jewish student from Strasburg, who, because of his German attitude, was expelled by the French authorities from this town, which now belongs to France, to represent them on the Committee of the Students Organisation. The antisemitic majority on the Committee refused to work with him, because he is a Jew, insisting that they would accept only a race-German.
The Hessen Minister of Education, Herr Adelung, thereupon wrote to the Students’ Committee to tell them that their action in refusing to work together with a Jewish student is illegal, because it is in violation of the Constitution. The Students’ Committee retaliated by adopting a resolution demanding the enforcement of an anti-Jewish numerus clausus at the University.
The Democratic Party of Hessen has in view of this provocative attitude of the students, demanded that the Government should dissolve the Students’ Committee, and withdraw all State aid.
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