Milton Wolf

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Milton A. Wolf (born May 29, 1924 in Cleveland , Ohio , † May 19, 2005 in Shaker Heights , Ohio) was an American entrepreneur and diplomat and chairman of the American Austrian Foundation .

Youth and Academic Career

Milton Wolf was the son of Sylvia and Sam Wolf, Vice Detective under Eliot Ness with Cleveland Police. His graduation from Glenville High School coincided with the outbreak of World War II . He joined the Army Air Force in hopes of entry into the officers' school . However, the Army needed meteorologists at the time, so he was sent to Hamilton College in Clinton , New York. Milton Wolf spent the rest of his army time building weather and radar stations in the Pacific .

After the end of his army service, it returned to studying. He graduated from Ohio State with a BA in Chemistry and Biology in 1948 and a BS in Construction from the Case Institute of Technology in 1954 . He later returned to the now renamed Case Western Reserve University , where he graduated with an MA in Economics in 1973 . From 1981 to 1987 he taught international economics and in 1993 he received his doctorate.

Professional career

He founded the Zehman-Wolf Construction Company in Cleveland in 1948, which was dedicated to the construction of shopping centers and high-rise buildings , and ran it for 28 years.

In the mid-1960s, Wolf began to be interested in politics. He conducted many fund-raising events for the Democratic Party , including one in 1976 in which he 65,000 dollars for Jimmy Carter scored presidential candidacy. He remembered him and sent him to Vienna in 1977 as an ambassador . During his tenure from 1977 to 1980 he organized the meeting between Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter, at which the SALT II treaties were signed on June 18, 1979 .

After retiring from the diplomatic service, he taught at the Case Western Reserve, but always maintained contact with Austria and acted, among other things, as chairman of the Fulbright Commission in Austria and the American Austrian Foundation.

Awards

His continuous commitment to American-Austrian relations also helped him to win numerous awards, such as the Golden Medal of Honor with Sash of the Republic of Austria , the Golden Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg and the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class .

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SURNAME Wolf, Milton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Milton A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat, building contractor, economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio, USA
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 2005
Place of death Shaker Heights , Ohio , USA