Born:

1926

US-American politician and manager of German-Jewish descent. He served as US Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter administration from 1977 to 1979 and as Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin from 1997 to 2014.

Mentioned in

• Free and Unfree in a Faraway Place: German-speaking Refugees in China’s Foreign Concessions and the Shanghai Ghetto (Meredith Oyen)