Curt Martin Riess

Curt Martin Riess (June 21, 1902 – May 13, 1993) was a German journalist and writer.

Reiss was born of Jewish-German origins in Wurzburg, Germany, and later fled in 1933 to Paris, France not long after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933. Riess received his higher education in Berlin, Munich, Heidelberg, Zurich and Paris, with an emphasis on literature and economics. He was the grandfather of the 2011 Nobel laureate in Physics, Adam Riess, and of psychiatrist Gail Saltz.