For the third time in succession, Frankfurt University has bestowed the highest office at its disposal, the rectorship, upon a Jewish-born scholar who returned to Germany after a scientific career interrupted by the Nazi regime, but continued in exile.
Elected by his faculty colleagues to the rectorship, or presidency, of the University for the forthcoming academic year was Dr. Fritz Neumark, a professor of economics who has specialized in financial problems and belongs to the Advisory Councils of the Bonn Ministries of Economics and of Finance.
Born at Hanover 54 years ago the son of a Jewish businessman, he was named an assistant in the Department of Economics here in 1925. He had risen to Associate Professor when, shortly after the reign of Nazism began, he received a call to the Chair of Economics at the University of Istanbul. In Turkey he taught until 1950, then returned to Frankfurt first as a guest lecturer and later as a full professor.
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