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2 unusual facts about Heckscher


Heckscher

Sten Heckscher, Swedish politician and grandson of Eli Heckscher

Gunnar Heckscher (1909–1987), Swedish politician and son of Eli Heckscher


Sten Heckscher

Sten Heckscher (born 29 July 1942 in Stockholm) is a Swedish lawyer and Social Democratic politician.

The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Responding to a request for a donation for the purchase of a bus by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, August Heckscher donated a Manhattan property on Fifth Avenue from 104th to 105th Street that opened as The Heckscher Foundation for Children

William S. Heckscher

Heckscher was released from internment early, on Christmas Day 1941, after the intervention of Canadian senator Cairine Wilson and John Lovejoy Elliott.

Heckscher was commissioned in 1931 to paint a portrait of Gustav Pauli, the director of Kunsthalle Hamburg.


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