German League for Human Rights
The German League for Human Rights was founded on 16 November 1914 as the pacifist group Bund Neues Vaterland. Among its members: Albert Einstein., Friedrich Simon Archenhold, Walther Borgius, Elsbeth Bruck, Minna Cauer, Hans Delbrück, Albert Einstein, Kurt Eisner, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Alfred Hermann Fried, Alexander Futran, Hellmut von Gerlach, Rudolf Goldscheid, Paul Guttfeld, Arthur Holitscher, Harry Graf Kessler, Gustav Landauer, Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Ernst Meyer, Georg Friedrich Nicolai, Paul Oestreich, Hans Paasche, Ludwig Quidde, Heinrich Rausch von Traubenberg, Ernst Reuter, Helene Stöcker, Leopold von Wiese, Clara Zetkin and Stefan Zweig.
Other groups such as the Deutsche Liga fur Menschenrechte were formed out of the BNV.