Paul Weyland

Paul Wilhelm Gustav Weyland (20 January 1888, Berlin – 6 December 1972, Bad Pyrmont) was the antisemitic leader of the Anti Einstein League.

It ends with an open allusion to the contemporary conflicts between Germans and Poles in Upper Silesia.

In August 1920 he organised a mass meeting at the Berliner Philharmonie to contest Einstein's theory of relativity.

This attack consisted primarily of unsubstantial insults against the theory of relativity alongside claims that it was promoted by "the clique of [Einstein's] academic supporters".

Weyland claimed that the theory constituted a form of hypnotic mass suggestion and Jewish arrogance, which was a product of an unsettling spiritually chaotic period and that it, amongst other repellent ideas, was poisoning German thought.