Movement Begun to Erect Monument to Heine in Germany

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

An appeal for the erection of a monument to Heinrich Heine has been issued by the poets Herbert Eulenberg and Hans Heinz Ewer on behalf of a Heine Memorial Committee which has been formed here.

“The time has at last come for a monument to be erected to the poet Heinrich Heine in his native town, as a belated recognition of the poet who has so frequently and movingly told of his love for his Rhineland home, a recognition by the uncountable thousands who have been enriched for over a hundred years past in all the countries of the world by his song, his wit and his spirit,” the appeal read.

Although there are monuments to Heine in Paris and in New York, he has no memorial of any kind in Germany. His Jewish birth has meant the refused of the historians of German literature to admit his significance. An attempt was made in 1897 to erect a memorial in Duesseldorf, the town of his birth, but the Government refused permission on the ground of Heine’s anti-German utterances. The memorial that had been made for the purpose was accordingly offered to the Municipality of New York, which accepted it. It is commonly known as the Heine statue or the Lorelei fountain. The Heine memorial in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise in Paris was originally kept up by private subscriptions from Germany. During the war and the inflation period in Germany these subscriptions were stopped. bur the firm of Desclert which had taken over the responsibility for the upkeep of the memorial continued to do so although no funds were arriving from Germany. The German Government decided last November to pay the firm for its care of the momorial, and the general view was expressed at the time that the Government would take over officially the responsibility for the future for the upkeep of the memorial.

HAKOACH JEWISH FOOTBALL TEAM, HERE TO PLAY AMERICAN TEAMS

Dr. Julius Kraus, manager of the Jewish football team, Ha’koach of Vienna, and Dr. Albere Marur, one of the organizers of the team. arrived on the Olympic to arrange matches with professional football teams in the United States Fourteen matches are planned. Twenty-four of the best players will arrive. The Ha’koach was victorious in games played in Austria. Germany. Poland and England.