# Bureau of Statistics of Jews

**The Bureau for Statistics of the Jews**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> \[1\] was a member of </span>[Berlin](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin "Berlin")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the beginning of the 20. Association founded century, which aimed to promote the research of the social relations of the Jews of all countries with the means and methods of scientific statistics.</span>[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[ 1\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-1)

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The later chairman </span>[Alfred Nossig](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nossig "Alfred Nossig")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> founded an association in 1902 </span>[in Halensee](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-Halensee "Berlin-Halensee")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> after many years of preliminary work, which published the collection of </span>**Jewish statistics**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 1903. After winning the large Jewish organizations and communities for the purposes of the association and pledged their financial support, the association founded on 1. October 1904 a permanent office in Berlin. Local groups of the Bureau were created in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Berlin</span>[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">.\[ 2\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-2)

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In particular, the directors </span>[Jacob Segall](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Segall "Jacob Segall")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span>[Arthur Ruppin](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ruppin "Arthur Ruppin")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> made important contributions to the history of German Jewry. From January 1905, the Bureau published the monthly </span>**journal for demographics and statistics of the Jews**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> under Ruppin’s editorial staff,</span>[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[\[3\]\[4\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-3)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[4\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-4)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">in which, in addition to statisticians, anthropologists such as </span>[Felix von Luschan](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Luschan "Felix of Lushan")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span>[Maurice Fishberg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Fishberg "Maurice Fishberg")[, Arkadius Elkind](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadius_Elkind?action=edit&redlink=1 "Arkadius Elkind (page not available)")[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[5\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-5)[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[5\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-6)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span>[Samuel Weissenberg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Weissenberg "Samuel Weissenberg")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> were represented with treatises on </span>[the anthropology](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropologie "Anthropology")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the Jews.</span>

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In particular, the directors </span>[Jacob Segall](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Segall "Jacob Segall")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span>[Arthur Ruppin](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ruppin "Arthur Ruppin")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> made important contributions to the history of German Jewry. From January 1905, the Bureau published the monthly </span>**journal for demographics and statistics of the Jews**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> under Ruppin’s editorial staff,</span>[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[\[3\]\[4\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-3)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[4\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-4)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">in which, in addition to statisticians, anthropologists such as </span>[Felix von Luschan](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Luschan "Felix of Lushan")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span>[Maurice Fishberg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Fishberg "Maurice Fishberg")[, Arkadius Elkind](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadius_Elkind?action=edit&redlink=1 "Arkadius Elkind (page not available)")[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[5\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-5)[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[5\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-6)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span>[Samuel Weissenberg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Weissenberg "Samuel Weissenberg")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> were represented with treatises on </span>[the anthropology](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropologie "Anthropology")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the Jews.</span>

##### <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Jewish count or war statistics </span>

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Right at the beginning of the war, the Bureau was affiliated with </span>**a committee for war statistics**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> under the provisional management. Already on the 14. August 1914 called for a call from </span>[the Association of German Jews](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verband_der_deutschen_Juden?action=edit&redlink=1 "Association of German Jews (page not available)")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> (founded in 1904 at the suggestion of the CV</span>[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[7\])</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-7)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the </span>[General Newspaper of Judaism](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgemeine_Zeitung_des_Judentums "General Newspaper of Judaism")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Jg. 78. No. 33, pp. 388–389, the readers to send the names of Jewish army members “who belong in any capacity of the army or navy” to the association, specifying the exact rank. The collection of materials on the services of war served </span>[the Central](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central-Verein_deutscher_Staatsb%C3%BCrger_j%C3%BCdischen_Glaubens "Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Association </span>[and the Defense](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verein_zur_Abwehr_des_Antisemitismus "Association for the Defense Against Anti-Semitism")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Association and nine additional Jewish organizations of the same task “to refute \[to be expected\] accusations of unsightly behavior of the Jews during the war period”, since “after the war, a re-emergence of the anti-Semitic movement” was expected.</span>[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[ 8\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-8)[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[9\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-9)

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The work did not progress. As recently as the early 1920s, the association sent questionnaires to the rabbis in the congregations. This internal count is not to be confused with </span>[the Jewish count](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenz%C3%A4hlung "Jewish count")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> proposed by Erzberger and other parliamentarians in 1916.</span>

In May 1921[, Jacob Segall](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Segall "Jacob Segall")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> (scientific director) and </span>[Heinrich Silbergleit](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Silbergleit "Heinrich Silbergleit")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> (chairman) issued a statistic </span> ( [<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[10\]).</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-10)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> The 84,352 Jewish war participants counted so far made up an estimated 17% of the Jewish population. In 1922, Segall published in </span>**Der Schild**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1; Journal of </span>[the Reichsbund of Jewish Frontline](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbund_j%C3%BCdischer_Frontsoldaten "Reichsbund of Jewish frontline soldiers")<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Soldiers) “Some things about the methods of Jewish war statistics”. The fallen were published in the “shield” (1929).</span>[<sup><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[ 11\]</span></sup>](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden#cite_note-11)

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">\[1\] </span>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau\_f%C3%BCr\_Statistik\_der\_Juden](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_f%C3%BCr_Statistik_der_Juden)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>