Ernst Jaeckh

Nachrichtenstelle fr den Orient, Deutsche Hochschule fr Politik, New Commonwealth

He was born in Urach Germany. During the First World War, Jaeckh was one of the main propagandists of the GermanTurkish alliance and worked for Eugen Mittwoch and his Nachrichtenstelle fr den Orient. In 1920, he founded the Deutsche Hochschule fr Politik, a key liberal think tank of the Weimar Republic. Being a staunch AntiNazi, he emigrated to Britain in the 1930s. In 1932, he became international director of the newly founded New Commonwealth Society. In 1940, he migrated further to the United States where he became professor at Columbia University and founded the Columbia Middle East Institute in 1948. He is remembered to be an author and academic. He promoted the GermanTurkish Alliance and founded the German Turkish Association in 1912. He became professor of Turkish history at the University of Berlin in 1914. Ernst Jckh was a member of the diplomatic service during World War I and with Friedrich Naumann, he organized the liberal movement in Germany . Jckh emigrated to Britain s

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