Walter Bernhard Kissinger was born on June 21, 1924, in Fürth, Germany, in the northern Bavarian region. He was born about 13 months after Henry Kissinger, the most prominent US secretary of state in the years following World War II.
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Walter Kissinger passed away on May 3 at his San Rafael, California, home. Kissinger was a prosperous businessman and philanthropist on Long Island who struggled for the most of his adult life to be regarded as the less-known Kissinger, rather than the secretary of state. He was ninety-six. According to his family, chronic renal failure was the cause of Walter Bernhard Kissinger’s death.
The majority of his assets were donated to the Kissinger Family Foundation, which he and his wife Eugenie (Van Drooge) Kissinger founded in 1997. Eugenie worked at the United Way and other charitable organizations. In addition, they spent the summers at a 230-acre Arabian horse ranch in Colorado.
Mr. Kissinger relocated to San Rafael in 2014 to be close to his son William following the death of his wife. There he carried on his charitable activity.
