Prof. Moritz Julius Bonn, a Jewish refugee from Nazism, who now lives in London, was honored here today at a ceremony marking the anniversary of his receiving his Ph. D degree from Munich University 60 years ago.
Prof. Bonn, who is 83 years old, is a well-known author and economist. He was adviser to the German Government and rector of Berlin’s Commercial College prior to Hitler’s advent. He lectured at the London School of Economics from 1933 to 1939 and served as a visiting professor in California and at Harvard University.
A Jewish industrialist most in the German public eye, director Siegfried Seelig of the United Steel Works trust in Dusseldorf was awarded the “honorary presidency” of the German Scrap Metal Federation on his 60th birthday at a reception attended by some 200 prominent guests, by Y. Dagan, departmental head of the Israel Purchasing Mission in Germany, and by Dr. H. G. van Dam, Secretary-General of the Central Jewish Council.
He returned to Germany at the end of the war, having lived “underground” in Belgium after escaping from a detention camp in Southern France. In a toast at the reception, the chairman of the Association of Jewish Communities in North Rhine province, Julius Dreifuss, praised his steadfast loyalty to Judaism and the effective support he has given to the Israel reparations program.
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