Its first-ever conference elected Tivadar Fischer as party president. He was seconded by an eight-member committee, while Stern (who died later that year) was honorary president, and József Fischer led the Transylvanian wing. In Bukovina, where the PER was foremost known as the "Jüdische Reichspartei", its chapter came to include, alongside Ebner, the unorthodox Zionist Max Diamant, formerly of the Jewish National People's Party, and Karl Klüger, Saul Klüger, Josef Mann, Leon Mizrachi, Benedikt Kaswan, Manfred Reifer (or Reiffer), and Leon Schmelzer. Ernő (Ernest) Marton, Mișu Weissman, and Landau were other prominent members of the PER. Lawyer Eugen Kertész headed the PER chapter in Cluj, later joined by the UER defector Miksa Klein.