Julius Klein

Background

Julius Klein was born in 1901 in a Jewish family. Klein"s connection to the House of David as a descendant of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen is illustrated in The Unbroken Chain.

Education

Educated Sophien College, Berlin, 1919. Graduate, School Military Government, University of Virginia War correspondent, World War I. Editor Hearst Newspapers, 1926-1933.

Executive R.K.O., Universal Pictures, Hollywood, California, 1934-1939. National commander Jewish War Veterans of United States of America, 1947-1948, chairman of the executive committee, 1952.

Chairman Julius Klein Public Relations, Incorporated., 1947-1984.

Served as field clerk United States Military Mission United States Army, 1918-1919. Joined (33d Infantry Division), 1933, head, investigation of subversive activities in middle west, 1932-1934, lieutenant colonel, 1941. Active service (33d division, Illinois National Guard), 1941.

Commanded (23d T.C. regiment), 1943, service in, South Pacific, Philippines, in charge of 10,000 troops in active theater of, South Pacific and Philippine Islands, 1943, advanced to colonel, 1944, special assistant to secretary of war, 1946, separated from service, 1946.

Continued association with United States National Guard as commanding officer (623d T.C. group and attached service troops). Brigadier general (109th anti-aircraft artillery brig.), 1948-1951, nominated brigadier general of line (National Guard United States), 1949, confirmed, 1950.

Major general United States Army Reserve, translations, retired major general, 1966. National defense consultant to the United States Senate.

Member Illinois Armory Board, 1954-1984, acting chairman, 1972-1984.

Career

During World War I he was an American spy in Germany. After the war, Klein worked in Chicago as a journalist and later as Hollywood executive. He is also credited with being the first person to run radio broadcasts in German in the United States of America.Julius Klein, 1901-1961, "was a hero during, when he saved many lives during an explosion at New Caledonia in the South Pacific.

In 1941, he formulated an important military plan called "Combat Public Relations", which encompassed such topics as psychological warfare and propaganda.

He also helped ameliorate both German-American and German-Israel relations after "

Civilian After serving as a spy in Germany in World War I, he began his civilian career in the 1920s as a criminal reporter for The State Herald, a Hearst Corporation newspaper in Chicago, and initiated the first German language radio broadcasts in the United States. Klein also originated the South Pacific edition of The Stars and Stripes military newspaper, unsuccessfully ran for Congressman at Large as Republican in 1932, and for the United States Senate in 1954.

He wrote the screenplay, Black Cargo, during a Hollywood stint (1934-1939) when Klein tried unsuccessfully to produce films on the life of World War I General John Pershing. In 1933 Klein joined the Illinois National Guard, becoming a lieutenant colonel in 1941.

He formulated the Combat Public Relations plan dealing with psychological warfare and propaganda and was also stationed in the Philippines.

In 1947, Julius Klein was elected the National Commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America. On April 4, 1948, as National Commander of the Jewish War Veterans, Klein organized an enormous show of strength for the establishment of the State of Israel in the form of a JWV parade down New York"s Fifth Avenue. The parade influenced the United States to vote for the partition of Palestine and the State of Israel was born in May, 1948.

Achievements

• Julius Klein has been listed as a noteworthy public relations, army officer, journalist, counsel by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

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Connections

Married Helen von Holstein, May 11, 1928.

Father:

Leopold Klein

Mother:

Regina (Schick) Klein

Spouse:

Helen von Holstein