Ernst Jaeckh

Ernst Jaeckh (February 22, 1875 in Urach, Germany - August 17, 1959 in New York City, USA), was a German author.

Life
During the First World War, Jaeckh was one of the main propagandists of the German-Turkish alliance and worked for Eugen Mittwoch and his Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient. In 1920, he founded the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik, a key liberal think tank of the Weimar Republic. Being a staunch Anti-Nazi, he emigrated to Britain. In 1932 he became international director of the newly founded New Commonwealth Society. In 1940 he migrated further to the United States, where he became professor at Columbia University and founded the Columbia Middle East Institute in 1948.