Philipp Scheidemann's cabinet in 1919, but he refused that post and left the diplomatic service. He became a founding member of the German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei) and a member of the German Parliament in 1921 to 1928. He was the first President of the German Association for the League of Nations, President of the World Federation of Associations of the League of Nations and a member of every German delegation to the League of Nations. In 1926, he became the Chairman of Kurt Blumenfeld's Zionist German Pro-Palestine Committee (Deutsches Pro-Palästina Komitee) to support the foundation of a Jewish State in Palestine. From 1926 to 1931, he was the chairman of the German delegation to the Preparatory World Disarmament Conference. Bernstorff, who was explicitly mentioned by Hitler as one of those men bearing "the guilt and responsibility for the collapse of Germany", left Germany in 1933 after the Nazis had risen to power and moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he died on 6 October 1939. Publications My three years in America (New York: Scribner's, 1920) Memoirs of Count Bernstorff (New York: Random House, 1936) See also Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian genocide Foreign policy of the Theodore Roosevelt administration Foreign policy of the Woodrow Wilson administration Notes References External links Bernstorff next to Chaim Weizmann and Albert Einstein in 1926 at the foundation of the pro-Palestine Committee Hoser, Paul: Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich, Graf von, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. My Three Years in America by Johann Heinrich Bernstorff 1862 births 1939 deaths People from London German Protestants German Democratic Party politicians Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Counts of Germany German people of World War I Hindu–German Conspiracy Emigrants from Nazi Germany to Switzerland Ambassadors of Germany to the United States Ambassadors of Germany to the Ottoman Empire Witnesses of the Armenian genocide World War I spies for Germany People stripped of honorary degrees