Teresa Heinz

Teresa Heinz Kerry, 2013

Teresa Heinz with John Kerry

Teresa F. Heinz (born October 5, 1938 in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique , as Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira ) is an American philanthropist and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She is part of the Heinz ketchup empire and chairwoman of the Heinz Family Philanthropies and The Heinz Endowments foundations that emerged from the empire . In memory of her late husband Henry John Heinz III (1938–1991), she initiated the Heinz Awards .

In her second marriage, Teresa Heinz has been married since 1995 to John Kerry , five years her junior , former Senator from Massachusetts , 2004 presidential candidate and former Secretary of State of the United States . For John Kerry's political events she can also be called Teresa Heinz Kerry .

biography

At that time Lourenço Marques until independence in 1975, today Maputo in Mozambique

Teresa Heinz was born to Portuguese parents in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), the then capital of Portuguese East Africa . Her parents are the doctor José Simões-Ferreira Junior (1910–1989), born in Albergaria-a-Velha , Portugal, and Irene Thierstein (1912–1997), born in Lourenço Marques, whose father Alberto Thierstein (1870–1948) in Valletta who was born at the time in the British colony of Malta and died in Lourenço Marques. Her maternal grandmother, Maria Burló (approx. 1885–1940) was born in Cairo , the then British possession of Egypt . Teresa spent most of her childhood in Lourenço Marques. It was not until 1971, after she had been married to her US husband Henry John Heinz III for five years , that she accepted his citizenship.

Teresa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Romance Languages and Literature (French, Portuguese, Italian) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg , South Africa . In 1963 she graduated from the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Geneva . One of her fellow students was former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan . In Geneva she also met her future first husband Henry John Heinz III for the first time, who worked there for one summer in 1962 for the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) . Teresa Heinz is fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian and her native Portuguese, and after graduating she worked as a full-time translator for the UN Trust Council in New York.

On February 5, 1966, she married in Pittsburgh the billionaire and future Republican Senator of the US state of Pennsylvania Henry John Heinz III, the grandson and heir of the founder of the Heinz ketchup empire Henry John Heinz . The three sons Henry John Heinz IV (* 1967), Andre Heinz (* 1970) and Christopher Drake Heinz (* 1973) emerged from the marriage. After her husband was killed in a plane crash in April 1991, she inherited much of his fortune; her total wealth is estimated at $ 500 million to $ 1 billion, making her wealthier than her future husband, John Kerry.

In 1993, Heinz created the Heinz Awards in memory of her deceased husband. Since 1994, the awards from the Foundation Heinz Family Philanthropies (not founded by Teresa Heinz) annually to Americans in the arts and humanities, the environment, politics, "the human condition" ( human condition ), and "the technology, business and Employment "assigned; the prize money is currently US $ 250,000 (as of 2008). In 1995, Utne Reader magazine named her as one of 100 visionaries in the United States (“People Who Could Change Your Life”) because, as vice-chairman of the board of the US Environmental Defense Fund, she “overtook them Left dichotomy between environmental protection and economic development behind ”. In the same year Heinz announced a donation of 20 million dollars - at the time one of the highest donations for the environment ever - for the founding of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment , also named after her husband , the leading representative Bringing together business, government, science and the environment to develop mutually acceptable, science-based environmental policies.

On May 26, 1995, the avowed Republican supporter who once described political campaigning as the "cemetery of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises" married Democratic politician John F. Kerry in Nantucket , Massachusetts . It was the second marriage for him too. She decided to keep her previous name Teresa Heinz. Only at political events does she announce herself with Teresa Heinz Kerry in order to establish a connection with her husband. In 2004 she announced:

"My legal name is still Teresa Heinz. Teresa Heinz Kerry is my name […] for politics. Just so people don't ask me questions about so and so is so and so's wife or this and that. Teresa Heinz is what I've been all my growing-up life, adult life, more than any other name. And it's the name of my boys, you know? [...] So that's my legal name and that's my office name, my Pittsburgh name. "

Heinz chairs her family's charitable foundations, Heinz Family Philanthropies and The Heinz Endowments . Among others, the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation is named after Teresa Heinz, whose activities include the awarding of the Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research , which is also named after Teresa Heinz , which is among doctoral students at seven well-known US universities (Carnegie Mellon, Cornell , Harvard , Penn State , Princeton , Stanford and Yale ) each have eight master's theses and promote dissertations in the field of politically relevant environmental protection (as of 2006/2007). A professorship under the title Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy is funded at the renowned Clark University .

For her charity and dedication, Heinz has been awarded honorary doctorates from twelve universities , including Clark (1996), University of Massachusetts Boston (1998), Carnegie Mellon (2000) and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2007). In 2003 Heinz received the Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarianism for her commitment to environmental protection and medical care and education worldwide. Since 2001 she has been an active member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Great approval for the designated US Secretary of State Kerry, tagesspiegel.de January 24, 2013
2. ↑ Hillary Clinton officially steps down from Secretary of State post with the world 'stronger, safer' place, nydailynews.com of February 1, 2013
3. ^ Edward Helmore, The Observer Profile: Teresa Heinz Kerry, January 25, 2004
4. ↑ About the Awards, on The Heinz Awards (accessed February 28, 2008)
5. ^ "Named by Utne magazine as one of 100 American visionaries (" people who could change your life ")", according to the 2005 Women Who Make a Difference Awards Dinner. Teresa Heinz. on the website of the National Council for Research on Women ( Memento of the original of May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed February 28, 2008) 
6. ^ “Left the outdated dichotomy of environmental protection versus economic development in her wake”, (no author information; January / February 1995). Teresa Heinz ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2008 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. on Utne Reader (accessed February 28, 2008) 
7. ↑ (no author details; January 2003). Teresa Heinz to Receive World Ecology Award. Newsletter of the International Center for Tropical Ecology (ICTE) ( Memento of July 24, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) at the University of Missouri – St. Louis , Vol. X, No. 1, P. 1 ( PDF file; English; accessed February 28, 2008)
8. ↑ "political campaigns, which are in her words, 'the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.'" (No author information ; January / February 1995). Teresa Heinz on Utne Reader (accessed February 28, 2008)
9. ↑ Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY: With Teresa, expect an unconventional campaign, On adding Kerry to her name, May 23, 2004
10. ↑ Scholars for Environmental Research at www.hfp.heinz.org ( Memento from June 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed February 28, 2008)
11. ^ Board of Directors. Teresa Heinz. on the Heinz Endowments website ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2007 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. (English; accessed February 28, 2008) 
12. ↑ all in English, accessed on February 28, 2008
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    UMass Boston:
    Carnegie Mellon University: (no author details; May 15, 2003). Teresa Heinz to Deliver Keynote Address at Sunday's Commencement. 8 1/2 x 11 News, Vol. 13, No. 42 ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed February 28, 2008) UMass Dartmouth: UMass Dartmouth graduates more than 1,700, Press Release on the pages of UMass Dartmouth ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed February 28, 2008) 
     
13. ↑ Albert Schweitzer Awards for Humanitarianism, on www.schweitzerfellowship.org ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed February 28, 2008); For the brief explanation of the award see About Teresa Heinz Kerry, on www.johnkerry.com ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed February 28, 2008) 
     
14. ^ Entry Heinz, Teresa F. [class of] '00. Heinz Family Philanthropies, Washington, DC in All Active Members as of October 2007: List by Class & Section , on the pages of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, p. 110 ( Memento of May 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed 28 May 2005 ) February 2008)

Web links

Commons : Teresa Heinz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• about Teresa Heinz at www.heinz.org (English)
• Teresa Heinz Kerry on johnkerry.com (English)