Guido Goldman was a co-founder of the German Marshall Fund and set up the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
15 Facts About Guido Goldman
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Guido Goldman's father was a leader in the Zionist Movement, and a co-founder of the World Jewish Congress.
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Guido Goldman's mother, Alice, was a painter and heiress to a family fortune.
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Guido Goldman's family fled Berlin after they received a tip that the Gestapo had searched his father's office.
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Guido Goldman's family was well connected and hosted with world leaders and artists at their home, including German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Polish-American classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Guido Goldman's father, in his role as the president of the World Zionist Organization, was a champion for Israeli independence at the United Nations and was an inspiration for Goldman to champion civil rights activism through the 1960s and 1970s.
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Guido Goldman graduated with a degree in government studies at Harvard University, and obtained a doctorate from the same university.
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Guido Goldman went on to be Kissinger's confidant, serving as a link between the US and German politicians during his frequent trips to West Germany.
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Guido Goldman set up the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University along with Henry Kissinger and Stanley Hoffmann, and was the director of the Program for the Study of Germany at the same university.
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Guido Goldman set up the German Marshall Fund, a policy think tank focused on furthering relations between US and Germany.
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Guido Goldman had laid out the foundational blueprint of the think tank and became its founding president.
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Guido Goldman remained chairman of the board for forty years.
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Guido Goldman notably persuaded the then chancellor, Willy Brandt to financially endow the fund with a foundational grant in 1972.
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Guido Goldman was the recipient of the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1978 for his contributions towards advancing US-German relations.
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Guido Goldman died on November 30,2020, at his house in Concord, Massachusetts, at the age of 83.