100th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2004 - 55 Euro Cent

Theodor Herzl was born on 2. 5. 1860 in Budapest (Hungary) and was a writer, publicist and journalist. He studied law in Vienna and earned his doctorate in law in 1884, although he actually wanted to become a writer. When he received an offer as correspondent of the Viennese "Neue Freie Presse" in Paris, he seized the opportunity and moved to France in 1891 to work as a journalist. In Paris, he also observed in the context of his work, the affair Dreyfuß and the associated anti-Semitic riots. Under this influence he began to write the 86-page book "The Jewish State - Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question". In 1896 he became editor of the renowned feature pages of the "Neue Freie Presse" in Vienna and published his book in an edition of only 3000 pieces. With this book, the journalist Herzl became the most well-known Zionist and the book itself the prelude to modern Israel. In 1897 he initiated in Basel together with O. Marmorek and M. Nordau the 1st Zionist World Congress with participants from 16 countries and was elected the 1st President of the World Zionist Organization. The Viennese monthly magazine "Die Welt" was the central organ of this new movement. Herzl negotiated with the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Turkish Sultan, England and Russia, but without success. Theodor Herzl himself no longer experienced the realization of his dream; exhausted he died on 3 July 1904 in Edlach (Lower Austria). The corpse Theodor Herzl's was transferred to Israel in 1949 and buried west of Jerusalem on a named after him mountain. The brand is a joint issue with the Hungarian and Israeli Post.