Max Naumann

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Max Naumann (1875-1939) was the founder of Verband nationaldeutscher Juden (League of National German Jews), which called for the elimination of Jewish identity. The league was outlawed by the Nazis on November 18, 1935.

Along with Julius Brodnitz, Heinrich Stahl, Kurt Blumenfeld and Martin Rosenblüth Naumann was one of the Jewish leaders who was summoned to a meeting with Hermann Göring on March 25, 1933, in which Göring unsuccessfully tried to enlist their help in preventing a rally against Nazi antisemitism which was planned in New York for March 27.

What is significant is that Naumann was himself a Jew. Standing in opposition to other Jewish organizations such as the Centralverein or the Zionist movements, he saw in total assimilation the answer to anti-Semitism. He was quoted in Michael Brenner's book The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (51) as saying „The election campaign must not be a struggle of religious conceptions, it must be a decisive struggle about our Germanness!“ in reference to the 1933 election that resulted in Hitler's rise to power.