The question of what will happen to Jewish endowments in German Universities which have barred Jewish professors, continues to provoke great interest in American circles in Germany, since most of the endowments were made by American Jews.
In this connection it was pointed out that the University of Frankfurt has several chairs established by Jewish endowments, including one of a quarter million marks, on physiology, from the late Jacob Schiff; one million marks, from Mathilde Rothschild, on advanced scientific studies; a quarter million marks from Katherine and Moritz Oppenheim, for natural science (it will be recalled that these two venerable Jewish philanthropists committed suicide recently declaring that they could no longer live in Nazi Germany).
CHEMICAL INSTITUTE
Among the other endowments listed are: three hundred thousand marks from Arthur Weinberg for a chemical institute; 3,690,000 marks for various purposes from the Georg Speyer Foundation; one hundred and fifty thousand marks from Charles Hallgarten for a therapeutic institute; eighty thousand marks from Theodore Stern for pharmacology; the Otto and Ida Braunfeld endowment of one hundred and seventy-five thousand marks for the Roman Seminary and thirty thousand marks annually for an economic institute from Wilhelm Merton.
In addition there are also institutes fully endowed by Jewish funds, such as the dental institute which received its funds from Carl Rothschild and the neurological institute endowed by Ludwig Edinger.
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