ILR School 20th Annual Wilhelm Weinberg Labor-Management Public Interest Seminar Audio-Visual Materials

Wilhelm Weinberg was born in Hamburg, Germany on 5 Nov 1886. Wilhelm married Margit Straschitz and had 3 children. He passed away on 13 Feb 1957 in New York, USA. He was a Banker, Impressionist Art Collector and Philanthropist.

"Mr. Weinberg was born in Europe, lived in Holland, and at the time of the German invasion, was fortuitously away

when Holland was invaded. His wife and 3 children were seized and killed by the Nazis, which is what happened to 80% of

the Dutch Jews. He fled from country to country and somehow managed to get to America. And during the balance of his life,

whenever anyone saw him, he had moist eyes when he thought of his children. It was unfair that they were killed as was his

wife, and he survived. He also felt that perhaps if he were there, he could have saved them. Richard Weinberg died in 1957

and left no immediate family. In his will he specified that all his funds were to be distributed to charitable, philanthropic,

educational institutions. We gave from that estate a fairly large amount of money to Cornell where you will find in the Uris

Library a floor bearing his name and that of his three children. In addition to that, we initiated this particular program." [Richard Netter, Executor of Mr. Weinberg's Estate]