Eugen Mittwoch advocated Jihad and violence against the Western powers, Mittwoch hired more liberal and cosmopolitan writers and intellectuals for the Nachrichtenstelle such as the Swiss Max Rudolf Kaufmann (Mittwoch hired him for the Nachrichtenstelle, after he arrested, briefly imprisoned and deported from Turkey because Turkish intelligence had found letter of Kaufmann criticizing German-Turkish militarism and jingoism), the Social Democrat Friedrich Schrader and the Zionist Nahum Goldmann. Schrader and Kaufmann were correspondents for the Jewish-owned liberal Frankfurter Zeitung and close associates of , one of the sharpest critics of German collaboration with the genocidal politics of the Young Turks. In the 1920s
Day of the founding of the German Empire nominal value of five Deutsche Marks which paid tribute to the same event. Some adherents of the political right continued this tradition. Also, some student connections celebrated "Reichsgründungskneipen" (Imperial Founding Pubs). Day of the founding of the German Empire The Day of the founding of the German Empire (German: "Reichsgründungstag") was an annual celebration on the anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire on 18 January 1871 in the Palace of Versailles. The North German Confederation had already officially adopted the name "German Reich" in its Constitution by 1 January 1871, so constitutionally speaking, 18 January was not the