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Siegfried Moses was born in Lautenburg, Germany in 1887. From 1912 on. he works as a lawyer, and at the same time he was highly active in municipal and Jewish organizations. Moses emigrated to Palestine in 1937, working as a public accountant and assuming the post of managing director of Ha'avara, the transfer of Jewish assets in Germany to Palestine. In 1949, he was appointed Israel's first State Comptroller, a post which he held until his retirement in 1961. In 1957 he was elected president of “Irgun Olei Merkaz Europa” ("Association of Settlers from Central Europe"), also serving as president of the Council of Jews from Germany and of the Leo Baeck Institute. Siegfried Moses died in Tel Aviv in 1974.

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Siegfried Moses, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2789.