George Soros
When there is funding for progressive liberal organizations the name George Soros is usually in the news. Just who is this man and what does his birth order say about his behavior. A look at his older brother and their early life will give us the answer.
Double Birth Orders
When four years or more separate siblings they receive increased nurturing from both parents because of the years of separation. This gives the child a Double birth order. His number of birth plus the self-confidence of the Only child. This magnifies and intensifies both the positive and negative characteristics of their birth order number.
Two Boys Sibling Rivalry
Born Gyorgy Schwartz August 12, 1930 to a Jewish attorney father. He gave up his Jewish heritage during World War I as a Russian POW. He now had a worldview of globalization. His mother was from a Jewish family of a well-to-do fabric owner.
His older brother Paul, was born June 5, 1926 four years earlier. This gave both the boys Double birth orders. Paul was a One/Only and George is a Two/Only. The family lived an upper class cultured lifestyle with vacations in Austria and a summer home on the Danube River.
George complained that Paul got all the attention and the boys were rivals. Paul writes that they had “a pretty bad relationship” as youngsters.
The Two/Only Birth Order
The second born child does not want to be told what to do. When you add the power of the Only birth order you get an immovable object. This second child will not back down even if he knows he is wrong. The second child always tries to be different from the firstborn in order to gain their own identity.
Unusually they choose athletics as their older sibling is years ahead in school. This was not true for George as Paul was both the student and athlete. Paul was an Olympic skier, and number two on the Austrian National Tennis Team. Another way that the number two can control his life is to have a lot of money, then no one can tell him what to do. This indeed was the course that George followed.
Family Changes Name
George’s Teenage Years
George’s life changed drastically when he was 14 years old. The year was 1944 and the Nazi’s had entered Hungary. His father Tivadar decided it was best for the family to live separately in order to survive the concentration camps where all people with a Jewish heritage were being sent.
He bribed a government official to become George’s Godfather and for George to live with him. He changed his name to Sandor Kiss. This official’s job was seizing the property of Jews that were sent to the concentration camps.
George went with him, undercover with his Christian identity. Soros wrote that working with the Nazi’s never bothered him. He said “this was the most exciting time of my life.” The two/only birth order can be very self-centered.
George flees to England
At age 17 with the help of his father, George fled communist Hungary telling authorities he was going to a conference in Switzerland, Instead, he went to London. This is where he enrolled in school with the help of a distant relative.
During this time, he was very poor and approached a Jewish charity, among others, for help, He was turned down. Second borns never forget. He later received an advance degree from the London School of Economics. One of his professors was the philosopher Karl Popper and his book The Open Society and Its Enemieswas read by George.
Popper, like George, had Jewish roots, all his grandparents were Jewish. Karl parents had adopted the Lutheran religion before he was born. When George graduated he couldn’t get a job and had to work selling fancy goods for a wholesaler. He felt this was the lowest time in his life and he never wanted to be poor again. Eventually, he secured a bank position with the help of a Hungarian connection.k
George Comes to New York
In 1956 he moved to New York City working with various investment firms. He started his hedge fund in 1969 ending it in 2011 when he didn’t want to follow the new disclosure rules set up by the Federal Government.
True to the behavior of a second born, not wanting anyone to tell him what to do. The family fortune is now estimated at 26 billion dollars held in the private foundation.
Two Foundations Two Brother
To prove that sibling rivalry never ends we only have to look at the foundations that Paul and George started. Paul started the Paul and Daisy Fellowships for Young Americans. He gives up to $90,000 dollars for two years of graduate work for students with foreign ancestry.
They must uphold the American Constitution and Bill or Rights. George started the Open Society Policy Center and has transferred over 18 billion dollars to fund it. This money is being used to fund over 239 liberal progressive organizations in the United States and is operating in 60 countries around the world.
In contrast to his older brother, his foundation is meant to undermine governments in order to promote his and Karl Popper’s view of a single world government.
The Wrath of the Two/Only
Birth order is not predictive of political preference. It can unmask someone’s personality characteristics. As a young child George had sibling rivalry issues with his older brother. As a young boy he was influenced by his father and his worldview.
George grew up at a time when governments were in turmoil. He could not trust the politicians and saw firsthand how a person’s life and wealth could be taken from them. He was a man without a country and identity. This was also true of Karl Popper who moved from country to country.
George saw the crimes the Nazi’s committed against the Jewish population. It could have been him even though he did not practice his religion. When he reached out for help as a student the Jewish charity turned him down.
Any one of these things could have been the trigger to develop his dis-trust in governments and his open society view, free expression and respect for individual rights. Now at age 87 we have not hear the last from him.