About Jakob Ehrlich
Jakob Ehrlich (15 September 1877 – 17 May 1938) was an early Zionist and leader of the Jewish Community in Vienna, Austria. Ehrlich represented the city's 180,000 Jewish citizens in the city government before World War II, and was among those deported in the "Prominententransport" to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, soon after the German army entered Vienna in March 1938. He died in Dachau a few weeks later, from beatings. His wife, Irma Hutter Ehrlich emigrated to England, then the USA with their son where she was active in the rescue of Jewish children from Europe, working with WIZO and Hadassah. == Biography == === Zionist movement === Ehrlich was born in Bystřice pod Hostýnem (Bistritz am Hostein) in Moravia, Austria-Hungary. As a youth, he joined Herzl's Zionist organization, and went on to study law in Vienna, where he joined the Jewish-academic fraternity "Ivria". As a young man, he traveled widely through Moravia, Bohemia, and Austria, speaking on the vision of modern Zionism and helping to organize Zionist groups. In 1908 he returned to Vienna, passed the law examination, and the following year was listed as a barrister. He was a persuasive speaker and an energetic organizer, and soon had increased Zionist representation from one seat to three in the Jewish Kultusgemeinde. In 1913, the 11th Zionist Congress met in Vienna.
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