Czernowitzers...
This year I'm on the road again, by motorail train and motorcycle, from the Lower Rhine region, east/southeastwards. First stop: Vienna! Fellow member Prof. Amy Colin's statement on the forgotten Czernowitzer Josef Drach made me curious: "In 1920, Josef Drach, a wealthy Jewish businessman and art dealer from Czernowitz, developed detailed plans for establishing a European Union with Vienna as its capital." Here is now my preliminary research result
http://hauster.blogspot.co.at/2016/07/the-capital-of-united-states-of-europe.html
more detailed findings to follow and to be be shared with the Czernowitz Jewish Museum on site. Additionally there is most probably a connection between Josef Drach and our fellow member Cornel Fleming, keeping in mind his photo posted (at the bottom) at:
http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz6/cornel/fleming8.html
Cornel, back to you!? Well, in times of Brexit and temporarily rising European unification skepticism, it's quite hard to recall Josef Drach's visionary concept of a Europe at peace, but anyway the historic development proved him perfectly right.
Enjoy the posting and join me please as my - virtual - tavel companions over the next about five weeks!
Edgar Hauster <iPad>
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