Schwartz György
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Surviving the Nazi occupation of Hungary as a child, George Soros was born as Schwartz György in Budapest in 1930. He moved to New York in 1956 and built a $24.9 billion fortune as an investor. In 2019 he won the Ridenhour Prize for Courage. By 2018, his foundation had become the second-largest philanthropic organization in the US.
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In March 1944, when George Soros was 13, Nazi Germany occupied Hungary. The Nazis barred Jewish children, including Soros, from school and forced them to report to the Judenrat. His mother Elizabeth came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop; she was a dancer, teacher, and supercentenarian who lived to 110, while his father Tivadar was a lawyer and author. Soros attended the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he studied philosophy under Karl Popper.
In 1954, George Soros began his financial career as a clerk at the merchant bank Singer & Friedlander in London. He moved to New York City in 1956 to work as an arbitrage trader for F. M. Mayer, specializing in European stocks popular with U.S. institutional investors after the formation of the Coal and Steel Community. Later, he founded Soros Fund Management. He launched the Open Society Foundations, which by 2018 became the second-largest philanthropic organization in the US. He has appeared in films including Inside Job 2010 and the documentary Soros 2019.
George Soros has been married three times: to Annaliese Witschak, Susan Weber, and Tamiko Bolton, whom he married in 2013. He has five children: Alexander, Gregory, Jonathan, Robert, and Andrea. His younger brother is Paul Soros. Through one of his children, he is the father-in-law of Huma Abedin. He speaks Hungarian as his native language and is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Soros has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Ridenhour Prize for Courage in 2019. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford. His philanthropic foundation, the Open Society Foundations, is the second-largest in the US, behind the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Despite his philanthropy, he is frequently the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories and was targeted in a 2018 pipe bomb plot by a Donald Trump supporter. His philanthropy and funding of democratic movements worldwide define his legacy.
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I’m Not Better Than the Next Trader, Just Quicker at Admitting My Mistakes and Moving on to the Next Opportunity.
The Main Obstacle to a Stable and Just World Order Is the United States.
American Supremacy Is the Is the Greatest Threat to the World Today.
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Through one of his children, Soros is the father-in-law of Huma Abedin.
He endorsed Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential election.
His net worth is $24.9 billion.
As of 2018, his foundation is now the second-largest philanthropic organization in the US, behind that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
He is the younger brother of Paul Soros and uncle of Jeffrey Soros.
Because of his progressive views and philanthropy, he is regularly vilified in the right-wing media and the focus of right-wing conspiracy theories. In 2018 he was one of 13 politicians or celebrities targeted with pipe bombs by Donald Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc ahead of America’s mid-term elections.
In 1956, Soros moved to New York City, where he worked as an arbitrage trader for F. M. Mayer 1956-59. He specialized in European stocks, which were becoming popular with U.S. institutional investors following the formation of the Coal and Steel Community, which later became the Common Market.
In 1954, Soros began his financial career at the merchant bank Singer & Friedlander of London. He worked as a clerk and later moved to the arbitrage department. A fellow employee, Robert Mayer, suggested he apply at his father’s brokerage house, F.M. Mayer of New York.
Soros was 13 years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary. The Nazis barred Jewish children from attending school, and Soros and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat, which had been established during the occupation.
In April 2019, Soros was awarded the Ridenhour Prize for Courage. In his acceptance address he said: In my native Hungary, the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has turned me into the super villain of an alleged plot to destroy the supposed Christian identity of the Hungarian nation… I donate the prize money associated with this award to the Hungarian Spectrum, an online English-language publication that provides daily updates on Hungarian politics.
His mother Erzsébet also known as Elizabeth came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop. She was a Hungarian dancer, teacher, and supercentenarian aged 110. She refused to be supported by George Soros, but she was supported by nurses on his initiative.
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