21 Facts About Henry Jarecki

Henry George Jarecki was born on April 15,1933 and is a German-born American academic, psychiatrist, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.

Henry Jarecki was born into a German-Jewish family in Stettin, the son of Max Jarecki, a physician, and Gerda Kunstmann, the scion of a shipping family.

In partnership initially with Hambros Bank and subsequently with Standard Chartered Bank, Henry Jarecki managed the Mocatta Group until he sold his shares in the late 1980s.

Henry Jarecki was active when Mocatta became a counterparty to the Hunt Brothers in the Hunts' attempted silver corner of 1980.

Henry Jarecki pioneered the use of computers to trade the commodities markets and Mocatta was among the first firms to offer over-the-counter and exchange-traded options on futures in the American commodity markets when the options were introduced in the early 1980s.

Henry Jarecki has been a motion pictures and theater producer, with credits including Gardeners of Eden, Cuba: Island of Music, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, The Third Wave, Tyson, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Henry Jarecki makes an appearance as himself in the Melvin Van Peebles biopic, How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company.

Henry Jarecki serves as Vice-Chairman of the Institute of International Education.

Henry Jarecki is Chairman Emeritus of the Scholar Rescue Fund, which he founded in 2002, and is Chairman of the Scholar Rescue Fund's efforts in Germany.

Henry Jarecki is a leading advocate in Germany and the United States for refugees, calling for an alternative narrative on refugees, and stating, "Giess Wasser zur Suppe und heiss alle willkommen,".

In partnership with the Government of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg and private foundations, Henry Jarecki has led an effort to provide endangered scholars with sanctuary and the opportunity to re-build their careers at universities in Germany.

Henry Jarecki has been a member of the Advisory Council at the Department of German at Princeton University and of the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Henry Jarecki presently serves as a Governor of H Lavity Stoutt Community College in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, as a trustee of the Island Resources Foundation, and founded the British Virgin Islands' first youth center, the Youth Empowerment Project, in Tortola.

Dr Henry Jarecki has been a member of the Heidelberg University Association's Advisory Board in New York since 2013.

Henry Jarecki is the husband of Gloria Henry Jarecki, formerly a film critic at Time magazine.

Henry Jarecki is the father of four sons; the finance executive Thomas A Jarecki, and the filmmakers Andrew Jarecki, Eugene Jarecki and Nicholas Jarecki.

Henry Jarecki is the brother of Dr Richard W Jarecki, a physician and formerly on the faculty of the University of Heidelberg, who is noted for the development of statistical analysis of gambling facilities.

Henry Jarecki has a home in Rye, New York and is a part-time resident of the British Virgin Islands, where he owns two islands within the archipelago: Norman Island and Guana Island, both in the British Virgin Islands.

In 1978, Henry Jarecki sought to buy the former Stuyvesant Fish mansion at 19 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan, New York City, but was outbid.

In 2014, Dr Henry Jarecki was chosen to be an Honorary Senator of the University of Heidelberg.

In November 2016, Dr Henry Jarecki was awarded the Order of Merit, Officer's Cross by the president of Germany for his work to improve the city of Heidelberg, enhance US-German relations, and encourage Germany to open its universities to host threatened scholars from around the world.