Michael Fürst confirmed as president of Jewish communities
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National Association of Jewish Communities: Michael Fürst elected President again
Re-elected: Michael Fürst.
© Source: Elena Richert
Hanover. It has shaped Jewish life in Lower Saxony for centuries. Michael Fürst has now been elected President of the State Association of Jewish Communities. At the same time, he announced that he would not be running for office again at the end of his five-year term. “At some point it has to end,” says the lawyer, who celebrated his 75th birthday last summer.
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Fürst has been chairman of the fifth-largest Jewish association in Germany without interruption since 1980, which claims to represent 8,000 community members. Michael Grünberg from Osnabrück and Marina Jalowaja from Bad Nenndorf were elected as his deputies.
sight the liability of so-called “Reich citizens” warned Fürst, who is not considered an alarmist in the political sphere, that right-wing radicalism is increasingly penetrating the mainstream of society. He called for increased commitment to democracy: “It’s not just about the security of the Jewish communities and the Jews in Germany,” he said, “it’s about the state with its monopoly on the use of force looking after the interests of all democratic citizens. “