Karl Fuersten-berg, leading Jewish banker, died here today at the age of eighty-three.
Herr Fuerstenberg left the Jewish Community in 1929 as a protest against the refusal of the praesidium of the Kehillah to reduce his Kehillah tax, which was in the amount of 120,000 marks.
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