The Alfred Landecker Foundation was created in 2019 after Germany’s Reimann family – owners of JAB Holding – pledged €260 million over ten years to atone for the firm’s Nazi-era profiteering. Named for a Jewish businessman in Mannheim murdered in 1942, the foundation’s charter binds three aims: commemorate the Judeocide, fight antisemitism and fortify liberal democracy. Berlin staff fund research chairs, digital-memory projects and rapid-response ventures against alleged online hate. Flagships include DISARM, an open threat-mapping framework for coordinated disinformation campaigns, and the Landecker Digital Justice Movement, which backs strategic litigation against social-media platforms. Annual grant calls favor interdisciplinary consortia that link historians, technologists and civil-rights litigators.

Many of the foundation’s beneficiaries operate primarily in the digital sphere: the Digital Policy Lab, DISARM, Decoding Antisemitism and the vrschwrng project’s Digitale Wahrheiten, alongside recurring support for HateAid. Their outputs illustrate the foundation’s orientation; for example, Decoding Antisemitism’s latest discourse report classifies statements critical of Israel – such as references to Israel as a “terrorist state” or charges of genocide – as forms of antisemitism. Likewise, vrschwrng materials characterize “Israelkritik” as an antisemitic code.