Dieter Graumann

Dieter Graumann is an Israeli and German jurist and economist, born David Graumann in Ramat Gan in 1950 to Polish Holocaust survivors who had met at a camp in Zeilsheim, Germany. His family moved to Frankfurt am Main when he was one year old, and his first name was changed to Dieter in an attempt to conceal his Jewish identity in post-war Germany. He studied economics at the University of Frankfurt and law at King's College London, completing a doctoral thesis on the European Economic Community in 1979, and then worked for two years at the Deutsche Bundesbank before running a private asset management practice. He served as President of Makkabi Frankfurt, of which he is now honorary president, and was President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany from 2010 to 2014, the first holder of that office who had not personally survived the Holocaust. Since 2013 he has been a Vice President of the World Jewish Congress.