August Heckscher II
August Heckscher ( born September 16, 1913 in Huntington (New York) USA, † April 5, 1997, United States) was an American publisher, author, university teachers and intellectuals of the 20th century.
Life
Heckscher came from a rich Industeriellenfamilie that on Long Iceland was headquartered in New York City and in Suffolk County. His academic career took him to Yale University, where in 1936 he took a BA. The next stop was the Harvard University. Where he graduated in 1939 with a Master of Arts (MA ) from. He went back for the next two years to Yale, where he taught Administrative Sciences (Government ).
During the Second World War Heckscher worked in the military intelligence service of the United States, the Office of Strategic Services. From 1946 to 1948 he was editor of The Citizen Advertiser, Auburn (New York) before joining the editorial staff of the New York Herald Tribune until 1956. From 1957 to 1962 he spent 6 years Arts Commissioner for the City Council of New York City. At the same time, he was from 1957 to 1967 director of the Twentieth Century Fund, a foundation. 1962 President John F. Kennedy appointed him to the hitherto first consultant in matters of art of the White House. From this office he resigned in June 1963 because he had fulfilled his self-imposed tasks.
1965 Heckscher member of the Arts Council of the State of New York. 1967 brought him the mayor of New York City John Lindsay back to New York and entrusted him with the Office of Parks, Recreation and cultural concerns and the Office of the Commissioner of Parks.
Heckscher was also known as the biographer of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and as an author of books on developments in major cities in the United States.
Family
Heckscher's grandfather, August Heckscher (1848-1941), was born in Hamburg in 1867 and immigrated to the United States. He was a multimillionaire through his industrial enterprises and land transactions. He used his wealth as a philanthropist who, einrichtete in the city of New York City and on Long Iceland playgrounds, parks and a museum, the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington (New York), and the acquisition of land for the Heckscher State Park financed. His cousin Sylvia Brett married the last Rahja Sarawak in northern Borneo, Charles Vyner Brooke. Another cousin was the British- American painter Dorothy Brett