With a net worth of $8 billion after donating $32 billion and accusations of controlling governments, George Soros is one of the most controversial figures in the world.
Many media outlets have covered his story, but all of those are owned by him—except this one.
The story begins in 1924 in Hungary.
A lawyer and author, Tivadar Schwartz, marries Erzsébet Szücs. In 1926, they have their first son, Pál Schwartz, and in 1930, their second son, George Schwartz, is born.
It was a prosperous, non-observant Jewish family.
Hungary was an ally of Germany.
1936
As anti-Semitic sentiment spread rapidly in Hungary, Tivadar changed the family surname from Schwartz to Soros, and 6-year-old George Schwartz became George Soros.
1939
When George Soros was just 9 years old and in the 4th grade, he started a newspaper called “The Lupa News.”
1939 – 1945
World War II began. Hungary joined Germany and fought against Russia. Soros donated the money he earned from selling newspapers to the Finnish people.
But Soros witnessed the most deadly part of the war on March 19, 1944, when Germany invaded Hungary and created the “Council of Hungarian Jews.”
The Council’s role was to pass Nazi orders to local Jews. Those who joined it were exempted from persecution, and many Jews did join.
Today, Soros’s media claims that this is why Soros doesn’t like Jews, but the real truth is that Soros also joined that council, and that’s why he was exempted.
1944
His father, Tivadar, somehow obtained fake papers with Christian identities to save the family from the Nazis and decided to split them up.
Soros changed his name to Sandor Kiss and lived with his father’s friend, Baumbach, who was a Nazi collaborator.
Baumbach acted as his godfather, but Soros never acknowledged him. Baumbach died an anonymous life in 1999, by which time Soros was one of the richest people in the world.
Baumbach’s job was to seize inventory from Jews and hand it over to the Nazis, and Soros helped him. (Are we right, Mr. Soros?)
1947
Soros, who always plays the victim card, actually never had sympathy for persecuted Jews, and this is how he survived World War II.
When the war was over, Soros went to London to study at the age of 17, enrolling in the London School of Economics. This marked the beginning of the next chapter of his life.
1947 – 1954, London School of Economics
Soros studied for a Bachelor of Science in philosophy until 1951 and a Master of Science in philosophy until 1954. There, he met his mentor, Karl Popper.
Popper is considered one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th century.
It was Popper who shaped George Soros into the man we know today.
Soros was highly influenced by Popper’s book, The Open Society and Its Enemies.
The book argues that totalitarianism stems from closed societies and that wars occur because of them. Open societies, on the other hand, encourage free thought, equality, and democracy.
This book changed Soros’s life.
Soros grew to despise closed societies and vowed to build an open society as imagined by Popper. He even named the NGO he would later establish after this concept, which would become the most powerful NGO in the world— the Open Society Foundation.
1954, London
Soros was lonely and without money at LSE, but he was preparing himself for the future. His theories of fallibility and reflexivity were about to change his life.
He completed his postgraduate studies in 1954 and worked at various merchant banks for the next two years.
In 1956, he moved to the USA.
1956, New York
Soros set a target to make $5 million in 5 years and then return to London, but he ended up becoming a U.S. citizen in 1961.
He worked as an arbitrage trader for FM Mayer until 1959, specializing in European stocks, which were becoming popular with U.S. investors.
He worked as an analyst of European securities until 1963. From 1963 to 1973, Soros was the Vice President at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder.
In 1960, he married Annaliese Witschak, who was not Jewish. Soros would divorce her in 1983 and marry two more times.
The real game started in 1970.
1970
Soros left his job and became an entrepreneur. He started Soros Fund Management with his friend Jim Rogers and secret funding from the Rothschild family.
There are no details available about his relationship with the Rothschild family—how he met them or why they helped him.
1973
This Soros Fund Management, which later became the Quantum Fund, and the patronage of the Rothschild family, changed Soros’s life forever.
By 1981, he had become the world’s greatest money manager. Today, Quantum Fund is the second most profitable fund in the world.
By 1981, the fund had grown to $400 million.
Soros took just 10 years to go from $6 million to $200 million.
Soros created the Soros Foundation in 1980 and began his philanthropic work in Central and Eastern European countries, mostly those ruled by Communist governments.
With $200 million in his pocket, blessings from the Rothschild family, learnings from Karl Popper at LSE, and a sharp but dangerous mind, Soros was ready to unleash his influence.
The world was about to change.
What happens next? To be continued in the second part.
