The Antisemitic Catechism (1893)

anti-Semitic current, hardly anyone else deserves as much thanks as he does.

Besides Stöcker, another young speaker soon emerged in Berlin (1879), who approached the controversial question from a more liberal standpoint and in several popular assemblies sparked a stormy enthusiasm: Dr. Ernst Hennci. Unfortunately, he did not stick with the cause for long, as tangible successes were not to be achieved as quickly as he had probably hoped.

The first political step to curb the power of the Jews was undertaken by a Berlin high school teacher, Dr. Bernh. Förster. He circulated (1880) a petition in which the following four demands were made:

1. Prohibition of the immigration of foreign Jews;

2. Exclusion of Jews from governmental offices

and restriction of the same in the judicial service;

3. Preservation of the Christian character of the elementary school

and the greatest possible exclusion of Jewish teachers.

4. Re-introduction of official statistics on Jews.

(For details see: Anti-Semitic People's Almanac 1888, pp. 100—101.)

The petition received 267,000 signatures in a short time and was presented to the Reich Chancellor — unfortunately, without receiving any attention.

Förster was subsequently exposed to very hateful attacks. He was eventually forced out of