Dieter Graumann, the head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, announced he won’t seek a second term leading the umbrella organization that oversees the country’s various Jewish groups, the AP reports. When Graumann, 64, assumed the role in 2010, he became the group’s eighth leader and, notably, the first who was born after the Holocaust. The organization’s current vice president, Josef Schuster, will run for the position.
“This was a very difficult decision to make,” Graumann said in a statement published on the organization’s website. He cited the extraordinary amount of time the job—which is voluntary and not a full-time position—required.
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