Ronald Lauder

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Ronald Lauder (2014)

Ronald Stephen Lauder (born February 26, 1944 in New York City ) is an American cosmetics company heir, entrepreneur, former ambassador to Vienna, President of the New York Museum of Modern Art and since July 2007 President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC).

Life

Ronald Lauder comes from the Jewish Lauder family and is the second son of Joseph Lauder and Estée Lauder . His older brother is Leonard A. Lauder . He studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and later at the Universities of Paris and Brussels. In the early 1980s, Lauder was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO policy in the United States Department of Defense . In 1986 Ronald Reagan appointed him as the successor to Helene von Damm as ambassador of the United States to Austria . After his return in 1987, he started working in the family business.

Forbes estimates his net worth at approximately $ 2.6 billion; according to the Forbes list of US dollar billionaires , it ranks 367th.

Ronald Lauder (third from left) at a rally against anti-Semitism in Berlin, September 2014

Politically, Lauder is a Republican and is close to the Israeli Likud . He applied for the office of Mayor of New York in 1989, but lost in the primary of his party to Rudy Giuliani . As a candidate for the Conservative Party of New York State , he still ran, but did not get beyond fourth place with 9,465 votes. During his time as US ambassador, he defended the entry ban for the then Austrian President Kurt Waldheim . Austria raised allegations of illegal export of images and complained about public appearances by the ambassador with bodyguards.

In 1987, Ronald Lauder founded the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation : a foundation with the aim of re-establishing Jewish life, especially in Eastern Europe. Schools and kindergartens have been opened in 16 countries - there are facilities in Warsaw, Minsk and Kiev, but also in Vienna and Berlin. In Austria she supports the Lauder-Chabad-Campus in Vienna, a Jewish educational institution from kindergarten to high school graduation ; since 1998 she has also financed the office of the Anti Defamation League in Europe, based in Vienna. In Germany she supports the Jewish teaching house on Berlin's Rykestrasse and a Jewish elementary school (Lauder-Morijah-Schule / director Alexandra Lorenz-Still) in Cologne. In 1989, Lauder visited the Auschwitz concentration camp and has since supported the preservation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial . Internationally, Lauder is committed to numerous other Jewish institutions.

Lauder is heavily involved in the return of art stolen during the Nazi era (restitution). He is Chairman of the Commission for Art Recovery, founded in 1997 . In June 2006 Lauder bought the portrait “ Adele Bloch-Bauer I ” painted in 1907 by Gustav Klimt for the Neue Galerie (New York) in Manhattan . The New York Times stated the purchase price was 135 million US dollars (106.7 million euros). Lauder acquired the painting Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , which was previously in the Berliner Brücke-Museum and was also restituted to Jewish heirs , for the Neue Galerie on November 8, 2006 for 38.1 million US dollars (29.7 million euros).

Lauder is involved in the media company Central European Media Enterprises (CME), which comprises 15 TV channels in Europe, annual sales 600 million dollars. Central European Media Enterprises are embroiled in an expensive legal dispute with the Czech state . At the former Checkpoint Charlie , Lauder was temporarily involved in a construction project, which he has since given up. He had also offered to invest in Tempelhof Airport and therefore criticized the Governing Mayor of Berlin for closing the airport. On the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate , Lauder was received by Pope Francis in the Vatican in 2015 .

Lauder married Jo Carole Knopf in 1967, with whom he has two daughters, Aerin and Jane. The couple has been separated since 2006.

New gallery

Since 2001, Lauder has shown his art collection in New York in the building of the Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, which was redesigned by the German architect Annabelle Selldorf . The collection includes art treasures from the period 1890 to 1940. There are also temporary exhibitions there.

Awards and honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the Lauder Foundation website
  2. ↑ WILDER SEEMS VIRGINIA WINNER, FLORIO IN; VOTERS, 5-4, APPROVE NEW YORK CHARTER; First Black Mayor . In: The New York Times . November 8, 1989.
  3. ^ Commission for Art Recovery .
  4. ↑ Lauder Pays $ 135 million, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait - NYT, June 19, 2006
  5. ↑ checkpoint-charlie.de .
  6. ↑ Berlin will be a poor city again. October 20, 2008
  7. ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R .: Italy: World Jewish Congress meets in Rome | Jewish general. Retrieved October 13, 2017 .
  8. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cityfile.com
  9. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  10. ^ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R .: Washington: Ronald S. Lauder receives Great Cross of Merit - Jüdische Allgemeine .

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SURNAME Lauder, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauder, Ronald Stephen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City