Henry Goldman was an American heir, banker, philanthropist and art collector.
10 Facts About Henry Goldman
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Henry Goldman was born on September 21,1857, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Henry Goldman attended Harvard University but failed to graduate due to poor eyesight.
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Henry Goldman helped list retail companies like Sears and Woolworth, despite the firms' shortage of assets.
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In 1911, when the firm joined with Lehman Brothers in refinancing and incorporating Studebaker, Henry Goldman served with great dedication on the automaker's executive committee.
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In 1917, after America entered the war, Henry Goldman resigned as a partner from Henry Goldman Sachs in recognition of the negative effects of this irreconcilable difference of opinion.
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Additionally, Henry Goldman served on the Boards of Directors of the Lawyers Title and Trust Company, the Columbia Trust Company, the Commercial Investment Trust Corporation, and the Berlin-based Shrebreuger Technishe Hochschule.
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Henry Goldman remained a strong supporter of Germany until 1933, when, during a yearly trip to Berlin, he witnessed firsthand the increasingly brutal and institutionalized anti-Semitism that prevailed in the country.
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Until his death in 1937, Henry Goldman worked to help German Jewish intellectuals and child refugees immigrate to the US to escape the Nazis.
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Henry Goldman was buried at the Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.