Rotary in Munich, Germany
The first Rotary Club in Munich
was founded in 1928 as the fourth Rotary Club in
Germany, named Rotary Club München. The most famous
member was Thomas Mann. It was only four years
later, on 4 April 1933, that the celebrated author, now in exile
in Switzerland, was removed from the list of members together
with several Jewish and non-Jewish Rotarians who appeared
politically unacceptable under Nazi rule.
Rotarian Dr Paul U. Unschuld,
M.P.H., Professor and Director of the Institute for the History
of Medicine, LMU Munich University, has published the
full history of the Rotary Club at Munich,
Chronik des Rotary Club München zum 75. Jubiläum seiner Gründung
unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der NS-Zeit. Mit
Beiträgen von Benno Keim und Walther Meuschel.
Cygnus Verlag, München 2003, ISBN 3926936118.
The Perlentaucher, a German online magazin about books, has some
information in German language on the
Chronik des Rotary Club München.
All
about the Rotary Global History you will find on
Rotary Global History Fellowship.
It took another 74 years to establish the first
international Rotary Club in Germany, the Rotary Club
München-International - Rotary Club Munich International,
founded in 2002. If you pass by Munich please join a
meeting of
our Munich Rotarians, as besides German at least one of
the members speaks Afrikaans, Dutch, English, French, Greek,
Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish, Swiss or Turkish. |