Karl Konrad Graf von der Groeben

His family came from East Prussia. In World War II, he was linked to the anti-Hitler resistance of the 20 July plot.^{[citation needed]}

After the war, he acquired a distributor's license from the Coca-Cola Company. Through the Freudenberg Foundation, with which he was closely associated, he met the initiators of the later Amadeu Antonio Foundation.^[1]

In 1991, Graf laid down DM250,000 to establish the Amadeu Antonio Foundation to oppose far-right-wing parties, racism and anti-Semitism. It was named for Amadeu Antonio, an Angolan Vertragsarbeiter (contract worker) who was the first victim of racially motivated violence after German reunification.^[2]