Georg Kareski

Georg Kareski (21 October 1878 – 2 or 3 August 1947) was a German banker and Jewish Revisionist Zionist activist known for publicly defending the Nuremberg Laws in an interview published in the Nazi newspaper Der Angriff in 1935.

In 1933, Revisionist Zionism in Germany was marginal; the Staatszionistische Organisation which was formed in 1933 was not a member either of the German Zionist umbrella organization or the international Revisionist Zionist movement. Kareski was one of the few German Jews who saw the Nazi revolution as an opportunity. In 1937, he traveled to Palestine where he was accosted by Jews who considered him a traitor, spy, and informer. After his death, some of his admirers wanted to name a street after him in Ramat Gan.