Gerald Nagler [SEP] place of birth
Gerald Nagler
Gerald Nagler (born December 10, 1929 in Vienna) is an Austrian-Swedish businessman. He also advocated for human rights.
Life.
In 1931 Gerald Nagler and his family moved from Vienna to Stockholm. After earning his degree Gerald Nagler worked at his father's company, which he eventually left in 1982. He became deeply involved with the support of Soviet dissidents and Jewish refuseniks working together with Andrei Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner.
Nagler is co-founder of the International Helsinki Federation
countries. Gerald Nagler, who also co-founded the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, was the founder of the Swedish Helsinki Committee, and then also Chairman of the organisation from 1992 until 2004. Robert Hårdh led the organisation as Secretary General from 2000 until 2009 and then as Executive Director until 2017 . 
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the organisation also worked to monitor and improve the human rights situation in the former Yugoslavia throughout the conflicts of the 1990s. In 2009, the Swedish Helsinki Committee changed its