Arthur Altschul


Arthur Goodhart Altschul was an American banker and a Goldman Sachs Group partner, and executive at his private family office, Overbrook Management Corporation, founded by his father.

Early life

Altschul was born in 1920 in Manhattan to Helen Lehman Goodhart and Frank Altschul. He graduated from Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and in 1943 from Yale College.

Career

He served in the Marines from 1943 through 1945 and was a reporter for The New York Times in the late 1940s.
He worked as an analyst with Lehman Brothers, then joined General American Investors Company and then Goldman Sachs where he served as a general partner from 1959 to 1977 and a limited partner from 1977 to 1999. He was also chairman of General American Investors from 1961 to 1995.
He led the private family office, Overbrook Management Corporation, founded by his father to manage and protect the wealth and financial well-being of the Altschul Family. In 2002, the office opened to provide asset management and related services to institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Over the years, Overbrook's leadership passed to him, and then to the third generation, his son, Arthur Goodhart Altschul, Jr, who currently serves as Overbrook's Chairman.

Philanthropy

Altschul was on the Board of Trustees of many museums and philanthropic organisations, including the Whitney Museum, the United Jewish Appeal, the Overbrook Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Assembly, and the International Foundation for Art Research.
Barnard College at its 1984 commencement ceremonies awarded Altschul its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction.

Personal life

Arthur Altschul married four times:
  • Stephanie Rosemary Wagner, died in a plane crash in 1961; they had two children:
  • *Stephen Altschul, a mathematician and researcher.
  • *Charles Altschul.
  • Siri von Reis, a botanist. They had three children:
  • *Arthur Altschul, Jr., married 2013-2016 to Rula Jebreal.
  • *Emily Helen Altschul, in November 2002 married John Miller, a journalist and former host of 20/20, a weekly news magazine on ABC.
  • *Serena Altschul, has worked as a broadcast journalist for the MTV, CNN and CBS networks.
  • Diana Landreth Childs.
  • Patricia Dey.