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The Anglo-German Fellowship was founded in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 in September 1935, by the English merchant banker Ernest Tennant, who was also a friend of Joachim von Ribbentrop
Joachim von Ribbentrop

Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanging for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials....
, German Ambassador to Britain.

The organisation was aimed at the influential in society, and the membership was dominated by businessmen keen to promote commercial links. Members included Bank of England
Bank of England

The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and is the model on which most modern, large central banks have been based. Since 1946 it has been a Nationalisation institution....
 director Frank Cyril Tiarks
Frank Cyril Tiarks

Frank Cyril Tiarks Order of the British Empire was a British banker.Tiarks married Emmy Maria Franziska Br?dermann of Hamburg, Germany, on November 18, 1899....
, Admiral Sir Barry Domvile, Admiral Sir Murray Sueter, Prince von Bismarck, Governor of the Bank of England
Governor of the Bank of England

The Governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the Bank, with the incumbent grooming his or her successor....
 Montague Norman, and Hjalmar Schacht
Hjalmar Schacht

Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic, and President of the Reichsbank between 1933 and 1939....
.






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The Anglo-German Fellowship was founded in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 in September 1935, by the English merchant banker Ernest Tennant, who was also a friend of Joachim von Ribbentrop
Joachim von Ribbentrop

Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanging for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials....
, German Ambassador to Britain.

The organisation was aimed at the influential in society, and the membership was dominated by businessmen keen to promote commercial links. Members included Bank of England
Bank of England

The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and is the model on which most modern, large central banks have been based. Since 1946 it has been a Nationalisation institution....
 director Frank Cyril Tiarks
Frank Cyril Tiarks

Frank Cyril Tiarks Order of the British Empire was a British banker.Tiarks married Emmy Maria Franziska Br?dermann of Hamburg, Germany, on November 18, 1899....
, Admiral Sir Barry Domvile, Admiral Sir Murray Sueter, Prince von Bismarck, Governor of the Bank of England
Governor of the Bank of England

The Governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the Bank, with the incumbent grooming his or her successor....
 Montague Norman, and Hjalmar Schacht
Hjalmar Schacht

Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic, and President of the Reichsbank between 1933 and 1939....
. Its sister organization in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, was the Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft
Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft

The Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft was the German sister organization of the Anglo-German Fellowship. It was formed in Berlin, Germany, around 1935, under support of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop....
.

However the organisation had a pro-Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 leaning, as well as a number of fascist
Fascism

Fascism is a Political radicalism, Authoritarianism Nationalism ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or Race ....
 members, and was infiltrated by British (KGB
KGB

KGB is the Russian language abbreviation of Committee for State Security , which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991....
) spies Guy Burgess
Guy Burgess

Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess was a United Kingdom-born intelligence officer and double agent, who worked for the Soviet Union. He was part of the Cambridge Five spy ring that betrayed Western secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War....
 and Kim Philby
Kim Philby

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R. Philby , was a high-ranking member of British military intelligence. A socialism, he served as an NKVD and KGB operative....
.

Lord Mount Temple
Baron Mount Temple

The titles of Viscount Palmerston and Baron Temple of Mount Temple were created in the Peerage of Ireland 12 March 1723 for Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston, of East Sheen, eldest son of Sir John Temple of East Sheen, sometime Attorney General for Ireland....
, chairman of the AGF, resigned in November 1938, because of the treatment of the German Jews by the National Socialists.

See also

  • Anglo-German relations
    Anglo-German relations

    Anglo-German relations are the bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and the Germany.While economic and formal political contacts between the two Europe countries are co-operative and friendly, a distrust and dislike of Germany often exists in both the British media's reporting and in society more generally, the two countries havin...
  • Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft
    Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft

    The Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft was the German sister organization of the Anglo-German Fellowship. It was formed in Berlin, Germany, around 1935, under support of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop....