Max Kohnstamm (born May 22, 1914, Amsterdam) is a Dutch historian and diplomat.
Kohnstamm was educated at Amsterdam University, where he studied Modern History, before taking up a fellowship at American University, Washington, D.C.
He was private secretary to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands from 1945 to 1948, then served with the Netherland Foreign Office from 1948 to 1952. During this time he was head of its German Bureau and Director of European Affairs. He was Vice President of the Netherlands' Schuman Plan delegation in 1950, serving as Secretary to the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community from 1952 to 1956. He was Vice President of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe from 1956. He was President of the European University Institute in Florence. He was Chairman of the Trilateral Commission in Europe.
He was a member of the Club of Rome global think-tank, being one of the six member "inner group" at the time its influential work the Limits to Growth was published.[1]
In 2004, Kohnstamm was awarded the 'Freedom from Fear' Four Freedoms Award by the Roosevelt Stichting.
References
- "Trialogue: A Bulletin of American-European-Japanese Affairs". The Trilateral Commission. http://www.trilateral.org/AnnMtgs/Trialog/library_annmtgs/stacks_annmtgs/Dec_1973_Jan_1974_North_American_European_Japanese_Affairs.pdf.
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