Court Councillor Samuel Stern, President of the Budapest Jewish Community, has been elected President of the Hungarian Chancellory of Jewish Communities in succession to Baron Adolf Kohner, who has resigned, owing to illness following the collapse of his banking firm.
The election was fiercely contested, the rival candidate being Government Councillor Dr. Leo Goldberger, a big industrialist, who is a member of the Board of the Budapest Jewish Community.
The Goldberger supporters contended that the President of the Budapest Jewish Community could not at the same time be President of the Hungarian Chancellory of Jewish Communities, because the Chancellory had been created by Hungarian law
to act as the official intermediary body between the Government and the Jewish communities, and it would be an impossible situation if the President of the Budapest Community being also President of the Chancellory would be called upon to decide in a question concerning the Budapest Community.
Deputy Sandor was in the chair, and General Martin von Zoeld acted as teller. The voting resulted in Councillor Stern being elected President by 223 votes against 173.
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