Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, a guest of the Bertelsmann Foundation with Reinhard and Liz Mohn (1992). (Insert Credit Picture 1)

Liz and Reinhard Mohn with Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek (1993). (Insert Credit Picture 2)

German president Johannes Rau with his wife, Christina, at the ceremony for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bertelsmann Foundation (2002). (Insert Credit Picture 3)

At the Salzburg Trilogue with Austrian chancellor Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel (2005). (Insert Credit Picture 4)

The Bertelsmann Foundation’s cultural forum in New Delhi: Liz Mohn and Sonia Gandhi, president of the Indian National Congress (2005). (Insert Credit Picture 5)

Lower Saxony Premier Christian Wulff led discussions at the Bertelsmann Foundation (2006). (Insert Credit Picture 6)

Liz Mohn with the former U.S. secretary of state Dr. Henry Kissinger at the Global Policy Council in Berlin (2009). (Insert Credit Picture 7)

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan presents the Vernon A. Walters Award of the Atlantik-Brücke nonprofit organization to Liz Mohn, the first woman to receive the prestigious award (2008). (Insert Credit Picture 8)

Ambassadors for the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Integration Through Education” campaign, “All Kids Are VIPs”: Liz Mohn (center); Dr. Gunter Thielen, chairman of the Bertelsmann Foundation executive board; and minister of state Dr. Maria Böhmer (2008). (Insert Credit Picture 9)

At the launch of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation, with the Gütersloh Boys’ Choir and their artistic director, Sigmund Bothmann (2007). (Insert Credit Picture 10)

Liz Mohn and Gütersloh’s mayor Maria Unger in the daycare center “Die Lütken” with the winners of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation’s initiative “Integration Through Music” (2009). (Insert Credit Picture 11)

Women as management forces gain strength: Liz Mohn with the Business Women School of the Bertelsmann Foundation at Schloss Ziethen (2010). (Insert Credit Picture 12)

Dr. Gunter Thielen, chairman of the board of the Bertelsmann Foundation, as a guest of the Business Women School; he supports Liz Mohn’s initiatives (2010). (Insert Credit Picture 13)

Liz Mohn receives a kiss on the hand from star conductor Herbert von Karajan on the 150th anniversary of Bertelsmann AG in Gütersloh (1985). (Insert Credit Picture 14)

With Munich director and conductor August Everding as jury chairman at the Bertelsmann Foundation’s international singing competition “New Voices” (1995). (Insert Credit Picture 15)

Liz Mohn and Gustav Kuhn, artistic director of the international singing competition “New Voices,” with Sir Peter Ustinov (right), the jury’s honorary chairman (2001). (Insert Credit Picture 16)

South Korea takes the top three spots: the winners of “New Voices 2009” are (from left) Kihwan Sim, Eunju Kwon (first place), and JunHo You, pictured here with Liz Mohn and Dominique Meyer (center), jury chairman and designated director of the Viennese state opera. (Insert Credit Picture 17)

With Eva Luise Köhler, the wife of the German president, working together for the German Stroke Aid Foundation (2008). (Insert Credit Picture 18)

Liz Mohn and Max Ackermann, children’s ambassador of the German Stroke Aid Foundation, at a press conference supporting “15 Years Against Stroke” (2008). (Insert Credit Picture 19)

Reinhard and Liz Mohn in the foyer of the Bertelsmann Foundation (2008). (Insert Credit Picture 20)

At the opening of the Reinhard Mohn Institute at the University of Witten-Herdecke: Liz Mohn with son Christoph Mohn and daughter Dr. Brigitte Mohn (2010). (Insert Credit Picture 21)

The first ceremony of the Reinhard Mohn Prize: German chancellor Angela Merkel gave the keynote address (2011). (Insert Credit Picture 22)