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Sir Sigmund SternbergKCSGGCFOOOA[1]JP[2] (Hungarian: Sternberg Zsigmond; 2 June 1921 – 18 October 2016) was a Hungarian-British philanthropist, interfaith campaigner, businessman and Labour Party donor.
Sternberg worked in the scrap metal trade.[3] After the war, he founded Sternberg Group of Companies.[4] By 1968 he retired from the scrap metal trade and focused on commercial property investments.[4]
In 1976, Sternberg was knightedbyQueen Elizabeth II, and in 1985 he was made a Papal Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KCSG) by Pope John Paul II.[3] He was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1998 for his interfaith work worldwide.[7] In November 2005, Sternberg was promoted to the highest rank within the Royal Order of Francis I to the grade of Knight Grand Cross (GCFO), this in recognition of his contributions to furthering the interfaith activities of the British and Irish Delegation.[8] In 2008, he received the FIRST International Award for Responsible Capitalism, lifetime achievement medal.[9] In 2009 he was made Officer of the Order of Ouissam AlaouitebyKing Mohammed VI.
Sternberg married Ruth Schiff in 1949.[4] They had a son, Michael Sternberg, and a daughter, artist Frances Aviva Blane. They divorced in 1969, and he later married Hazel Sternberg, who died in 2014.[3] He died on 18 October 2016.[3]
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