Helmut Friedlaender
Helmut Nathan Friedlaender (1913 – November 25, 2008) was an American lawyer and financial adviser who collected rare books. Friedlaender was born in 1913 in Berlin, Germany. In 1933 he fled to Lausanne, Switzerland afraid that Hitler was about to seal Germany's borders. It was at Lausanne that he received a doctorate in administrative law with a thesis on hydroelectric enterprises. After working at a London-based brokerage for some time where he had been an apprentice and learned international arbitrage.