Leon Feffer
Brazilian businessman
Leon Feffer (1902–1999) was a Brazilian businessman who founded Suzano Papel e Celulose.2
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Born Nov 27, 1902, died Feb 7, 1999.1
Companies
- Suzano Papel e CeluloseFounder7
Career
Occupation: businessperson.4
- Date not recordedFounded Suzano Papel e Celulose3
Personal life
Feffer was married to Antonietta Teperman. They had two children, Max (1926–2001) and Fanny (1930–2017). He died on 7 February 1999.
In 1995, Forbes Magazine named him as the fifth richest Brazilian with a net worth of $1.6 billion US dollars.
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Philanthropy
He served as president of Colégio Renascença, a school for the Jewish community from 1939 to 1962. In 1953, he was seminal in founding A Hebraica in São Paulo, then the largest Jewish club in the world. From 1956 to 1964, he served as Israel's consul to São Paulo (Federação Israelita do Estado de São Paulo). In 1959, he funded the construction of the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in the Morumbi, São Paulo neighborhood.
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Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataLeon Feffer on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaLeon Feffer on Wikipedia
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- 7WikidataSuzano Papel e Celulose, Founder