Charles Bronfman
Charles Rosner Bronfman , PC , CC (born June 27, 1931 in Montreal ) is a Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist .
family
Charles Bronfman is one of four children of Samuel and Saidye Rosner Bronfman . His siblings are Edgar Bronfman , Aileen Bronfman de Gunzberg and Phyllis Lambert . He was married to Andrea Brett Morrison and has five children with her (Jeremy, Pippa, Tony, Ellen and Stephen).
Life
Bronfman attended Selwyn House School in Montreal , Trinity College School in Port Hope ( Ontario ) and the McGill University .
In 1951 he joined his father's spirits company Seagram and inherited it with his brother after his father's death in 1971.
From 1968 to 1990 he was the majority owner of the professional baseball team Montreal Expos , which played in Major League Baseball . Since 1997 he has been chairman of Koor Industries Ltd., one of the largest Israeli investment holding companies.
The Forbes magazine led him in 2003 to fifth place of the richest people of Canada and in 2005 at number 211 of the list of the richest people in the world .
In 1986 he and his wife founded the Canadian "CRB Foundation". Its aim is to further develop the feeling for Canada's cohesion and at the same time to promote the unity of those Jewish people who refer to Jerusalem as their spiritual center. From 1999 to 2001 he was the President of the United Jewish Communities (UJC), an umbrella organization of 155 Jewish associations and 400 independent Jewish communities in North America. Together with Michael Steinhardt , he founded Taglit - Birthright Israel , a program with which Jewish young people between 18 and 26 can travel to Israel and enable them to come into contact with the country's culture. Since the beginning of the program in winter 2000, around 110,000 young people have taken part. He is the chairman of the "Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies", ACBP, an umbrella organization that has been active since 1986 over all charities that the couple founded. They operate in Canada, the United States, and Israel. The organization has been restructured since 2016 to increase its impact.
Awards
- Officer of the Order of Canada (1981)
- Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1990)
- Honorary Doctorate in Law from McGill University, Montreal (1990)
- Member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (1992)
- Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honor for civilians (1992)
- Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (1992)
- Honorary Doctorate in Law from Concordia University , Montreal (1992)
- Honorary doctorate in law from the University of Waterloo , Waterloo (1995)
- Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Toronto (2000)
- Together with his wife, he was given honorary citizenship of the city of Jerusalem in 2002
literature
- Peter C. Newman : Bronfman Dynasty. The Rothschilds of the New World . McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1978.
- Peter C. Newman: King of the Castle. The Making of a Dynasty, Seagram's and the Bronfman empire . Atheneum, New York 1979, ISBN 0689109636 .
Web links
- Biography
- Jewish Times report
- Bronfman family ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
- The Bronfman Family Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ Forbes
- ↑ Own presentation for the 10th anniversary 1996 , English - CRB is called "Charles Rosner Bronfman".
- ↑ ACBP , engl.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bronfman, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bronfman, Charles Rosner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |