August 23, 1936 – November 24, 2024 George Anthony Wiegers, a pioneering figure in finance and a beloved mentor to countless professionals, passed away peacefully on November 24, 2024 in his residence in Denver, CO. Born on August 23, 1936 in New York City, George was the son of Anthony F. Wiegers, a combustion engineer, and Florence Tingo.
After his mother was diagnosed with a severe form of mental illness, he moved in with his uncle George in Bronx, NY where he lived through his teenage years. He was proud of his heritage as a 6th generation New Yorker, with the first American family descendants immigrating from Austria and establishing a green-grocer on the lower east side in 1836. He attended Niagara University where he played basketball and participated in its R.
O.T.C.
program, graduating with a BA in 1958. After a stint in the U.S.
Army 1958-1959 as a First Lieutenant he attended Columbia Business School, where he met many of his life-long personal and business friends, graduating with an M.B.A.
in 1961. He began his storied financial career at Dean Witter & Company in 1961, rising to become head of the syndicate department and an eventual partner. In 1971 he joined Lehman Brothers as a general partner and in 1983 became a Managing Partner at Dillon Read & Co.
under Chairman Nicolas Brady (Treasury Secretary 1988-1993). One of his mantras was “success isn’t going to be in selling financial products. It will be in selling (our) people and their ideas”.
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