H. A. Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger was born in 1923 in Fürth, Germany. With his parents, he emigrated to the USA in 1938 because of the pursuit of the Jewish. From 1957, he was the head of the department of international issues of Harvard University. From 1969 to 1975, he was the chief national security adviser of the President.
He was the adviser of the foreign affaires in the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administration, but had crucial influence as the Secretary of State from 1973 through 1977, when Nixon, later Ford was the President.
He had an important role in the involvement in Vietnam and at the negotiations afterwards. His first peace proposal was refused by Nixon, however. He controlled the vietnamizing, the military operations in Cambodia and in Laos. He took the initiative in relationship with the communist China as well. His attempts for the peace in the Mideast ended in failure.
His writings deal with the issues in the international diplomacy in the 19th - 20th century. In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Prize of Peace with Le Duc Tho.