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The Geographical Distribution of the Jews

in Prussia

I he last census before the war took place on the But the most interesting figures are those for the city
1st December 1910, and the first post-war census of
of Berlin, for the German capital occupies by iar the first
equal value on the 16th June 1925. It therefore place, not only owing to its absolute numerical preponde-
appears suitable, for the purpose of the following
rance of 172,672 Jews, but also as regards its proportionate
remarks, to begin by comparing the results of these
relationship to the entire population. Berlin alone is the
two censuses.
honje^of more than four-tenths of the entire Jewish popu-
We must begin by stating that, out of the entire resident
lation' of Prussia, while the entire population oi Berlin
population of the Prussian state on the. 16th June 1925 only amounts to one-tenth of the entire population of the
which numbered 38,120,173,
state. No clearer expres-
403,969 described . them-
sion could be found of the
selves as Jews, which repre- Jewry
influx of into the
sents a proportion of 1.06 towns and large cities. The
How manyJewishjudges were there in Prussia?
per cent. As the Jewish German capital, above all,
population only numbered like a giant magnet, has
Out of 5,800 official judges, 430 or 7.4 per cent
366,876 in 1910, this means
attracted almost one - half
were of Jewish origin.
that in the whole of the of the Jews in Prussia.
present area of the state of The same result is ob-
Of these, prominent positions were occupied
Prussia, during the period tained if we arrange the
by 12 Presidents of State and Appellate Courts
between this first post-war
provinces according to
and 109 Assessors in Supreme State Courts and
census and the last peace-
their share in the entire
time census on the 1st De- Directors of State Courts
number of Jews in the state
cember 1910, the Jewish po-
of Prussia.
pulation increased by 37,093
or 10.1 per cent, while the
entire population of Prussia Jewish Resident Population in Prussia on thelith Junel 925
in the same area only increased by about 3,119,000 or 8.9 per
in thousandths of the
cent. And this proportion holds good in spite of an increased Province
provincial
absolute tolal Jewish
birth-rate among the entire population and an increased population
death-rate among the Jews. City of Berlin 172,672 427.4 42.9
Rhenish Province . 58,223 144.1 8.0
The figures for local increases are, however, even more
Hesse-Nassau. ...... 52,757 130.6 22.0
informative. Thus the provincial statistics are particularly Lower Silesia 29,953 74.2 9.6
Westphalia 21,595 53.5 4.5
striking in the case of Berlin, Brandenburg, Lower Silesia
Hanover 14,895 36.9 4.7
and Schleswig-Holstein, where the general increase of 7.8 per
East Prussia 11,337 28.1 5.0
cent, 6.7 per cent, 4.7 per cent and 4.5 per cent in the total Upper Silesia 10,069 24.9 7.3
Brandenburg 8,442 20.9 3.3
population is to be compared with an increase in the Jewish
Saxony 8,341 20.6 2.6
population of 19.9 per cent, 14.9 per cent, 12.4 per cent and
Pomerania 7,761 19.2 4.1
25.4 per cent (principally in Altona). The corresponding Schleswig-Holstein 4,152 10.3 2.7
Frontier Province
figures are even higher in the case of the individual large
Posen-West Prussia 3,437 8.5 10.3
cities, in some of which, such as Magdeburg, Oberhausen
Hohenzollern 335 9.8 4.7
and Breslau, the number of Jews has doubled and even
Total for Prussia .403,969 1000.0 10.6
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trebled as compared with the total population.