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Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz

Date of Birth 27-September-1901
Place of Birth Freiburg im Breisgau
(Germany, Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg)
Nationality Germany
Profession Economist
Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz was a German economist. He became a crucial assistant of Allen Dulles in Europe and was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1945 for his skillful negotiations in Ascona, Switzerland, for the surrender of a million Nazi forces in World War II, with specific reference to Italy. He was the son of Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz, professor of Political Science at Freiburg University and a member of the Weimar parliament. His mother was Johanna Hirsch,. Von Schulze-Gaevernitz had two sisters: Ruth Gaevernitz, a historian; and Margiana von Schulze-Gävernitz, who married entrepreneur and philanthropist Edmund Stinnes.

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