1. Max Kohnstamm was a Dutch historian and diplomat.
13 Facts About Max Kohnstamm
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Max Kohnstamm was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the son of Philip Kohnstamm, a physicist, philosopher and pedagogue of Jewish-German origin.
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Max Kohnstamm was one of the founding fathers of the European Union by playing a major part in the 1950s in developing the European Coal and Steel Community and then of the European Economic Community.
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Max Kohnstamm was educated at Amsterdam University, where he studied Modern History, before taking up a fellowship at American University, Washington, DC During 1938 and 1939 he travelled through the United States as part of his studies.
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Max Kohnstamm was private secretary to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands from 1945 to 1948, then served with the Netherlands Foreign Office from 1948 to 1952.
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Max Kohnstamm was Vice President of the Netherlands' Schuman Plan delegation in 1950, serving as Secretary to the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community from 1952 to 1956.
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Max Kohnstamm was Vice President of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe from 1956.
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Max Kohnstamm was President of the European University Institute in Florence.
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Max Kohnstamm was Chairman of the Trilateral Commission in Europe.
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Max Kohnstamm was a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.
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Max Kohnstamm was the Founding European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
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In 2004, Max Kohnstamm was awarded the 'Freedom from Fear' Four Freedoms Award by the Roosevelt Stichting.
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Max Kohnstamm died in Amsterdam on 20 October 2010, aged 96.