Henry Kissinger

HENRY KISSINGER d2023. German-born American politician, diplomat and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. A Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, he became National Security Advisor in 1969 and US Secretary of State in 1973. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, he received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize (under controversial circumstances) with two members of the committee resigning in protest He died in Connecticut aged 100 on November 29th 2023