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The '''Social Democratic Party of Germany''' (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) is a [[social-democratic]] political party in [[Germany]]. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in [[Germany]] along with the [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany]] (CDU). | The '''Social Democratic Party of Germany''' (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) is a [[social-democratic]] political party in [[Germany]]. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in [[Germany]] along with the [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany]] (CDU). | ||
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+ | [[image:SPD Microsoft.png|thumb|left|600px|It's December [[2021]] party conference was sponsored by among others [[Pfizer]] and [[Microsoft]]. The SPD-led government, beginning the same month, promised 'no red lines' in its COVID policy.<ref>https://parteitag.spd.de/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20211214101954/https://parteitag.spd.de/ Archive.org] saved at [http://archive.today/2021.12.16-000150/https://parteitag.spd.de/ Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://reitschuster.de/post/spd-laesst-sich-von-pfizer-und-arzneimittel-importeuren-sponsern/</ref>]] | ||
+ | [[Bill Gates]] was a guest at a SPD party conference before the 2013 German elections. Gates took some time for a private chat with the Social Democrats for an hour, including a preliminary discussion with SPD leader [[Sigmar Gabriel]] and chancellor candidate [[Peer Steinbrück]], which "filled the party with a certain pride". Some board members, as soon as Gates had arrived at the highly secured hotel, took out their mobile phones to take a souvenir snap shot. Gates had kind words to say about the candidate for chancellor. "I know Peer from the time when he was finance minister, that was an enormously productive time in international development, when there were new financing strategies, new global commitment and cooperation. I would like to thank Peer for his leading role."<ref>https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/microsoft-gruender-bill-gates-zu-besuch-bei-der-spd-a-880060.html</ref> | ||
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Social Democratic Party of Germany (Political party) | |
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Abbreviation | SPD |
Formation | 1863 |
Interest of | Friedrich Ebert Foundation |
Subpage | •Social Democratic Party of Germany/Deputy Leader •Social Democratic Party of Germany/Leader |
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) is a social-democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Germany along with the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
Bill Gates
Bill Gates was a guest at a SPD party conference before the 2013 German elections. Gates took some time for a private chat with the Social Democrats for an hour, including a preliminary discussion with SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel and chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück, which "filled the party with a certain pride". Some board members, as soon as Gates had arrived at the highly secured hotel, took out their mobile phones to take a souvenir snap shot. Gates had kind words to say about the candidate for chancellor. "I know Peer from the time when he was finance minister, that was an enormously productive time in international development, when there were new financing strategies, new global commitment and cooperation. I would like to thank Peer for his leading role."[3]
Party Members
Politician | Born | Died | Description |
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Karl Ahrens | 1924 | 6 March 2015 | German SDP politician |
Jörg Asmussen | 31 October 1966 | Neoliberal German economist as civil servant who "deregulated" to allow for 2008 Financial Crisis, but didn't hurt his career. Attended the 2014 Bilderberg. Later Lazard Frères. | |
Egon Bahr | 18 March 1922 | 19 August 2015 | Quad Bilderberger German SPD politician |
Willy Brandt | 18 December 1913 | 8 October 1992 | West German Chancellor 1969-1974 |
Max Brauer | 3 September 1887 | 2 February 1973 | Mayor of Hamburg. One of a dozen men whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg |
Andreas von Bülow | 17 July 1937 | West German government minister who attended the 1978 Bilderberg. A prominent 9-11 dissident | |
Herta Daubler-Gmelin | 12 August 1943 | Attended Bilderberg 1989 as deputy party chairman of Social Democratic Party of Germany | |
Klaus von Dohnányi | 23 June 1928 | Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1970s. Mayor of Hamburg in the 1980s. | |
Ursula Engelen-Kefer | 20 June 1943 | Vice Chairman of the German Confederation of Trade Unions 1990-2006. Attended 1998 Bilderberg meeting | |
Nancy Faeser | 13 July 1970 | German lawyer and politician | |
Ernst Fraenkel | 26 December 1898 | 28 March 1975 | Social-Democrat opponent of the German Nazi government. After the war a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he founded the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies. |
Horst Gerlach | 16 August 1919 | 16 December 1990 | German Social Democratic politician |
Peter Glotz | 6 March 1939 | 25 August 2005 | German politician |
Gunter Huonker | 24 February 1937 | Attended the 1980 Bilderberg as a Member of the Bundestag | |
Jörg Kukies | 21 February 1968 | Goldman-Sachs bankster who became State Secretary and guiding hand for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Attended the 2022 Bilderberg Conference. | |
Heiko Maas | 19 September 1966 | Aggressive promoter of the "war on terror", fan of internet censorship | |
Karl Mommer | 13 March 1910 | 3 September 1990 | Vice President of the Bundestag when he attended the Bilderberg. |
Siegmar Mosdorf | 29 January 1952 | German politician from the Social Democrats close to German industry. Attended Bilderberg/2001. Later PR consultant | |
Yascha Mounk | 10 June 1982 | ||
Guido Peruzzo | 13 October 1949 | Deputy Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union | |
Ludwig Rosenberg | 29 June 1903 | 23 October 1977 | German-Jewish trade unionist. Worked in the International Department of the British Foreign Office during World War 2 during exile. Attended two more Bilderbergs in the 1950s after the first one. Leader of the German Trade Union Confederation 1962-1969. |
Heinz J. H. Ruhnau | 5 March 1929 | 7 July 2020 | Social Democrat politician and co-founder of the right-wing internal grouping Seeheimer Kreis. Attended Bilderberg 1991 as outgoing Chairman of Lufthansa. |
Karl Schiller | 24 April 1911 | 26 December 1994 | Single Bilderberger German politician |
Carlo Schmid | 3 December 1896 | 11 December 1979 | Founder member of the Bilderberg Steering committee |
Helmut Schmidt | 23 December 1918 | 10 November 2015 | German politician whose government was undermined by Le Cercle |
Wolfgang Schmidt | 23 September 1970 | German Chancellor "Olaf Scholz’s shadow foreign minister." | |
Olaf Scholz | 14 June 1958 | German politician. Former alcoholic and corrupt Hamburg politician who became Chancellor in 2021. | |
Gerhard Schröder | 7 April 1944 | Chancellor of Germany for 7 years | |
Peer Steinbrück | 10 January 1947 | Chancellor-candidate of the German Social Democratic Party in the 2013 federal election. Attended Bilderberg/2011 | |
Heinrich Troeger | 4 March 1901 | 28 August 1975 | German politician who attended the first and fourth Bilderbergs, then became Vice President of the Bundesbank |
Günther Verheugen | 28 April 1944 | German politician who attended the 1995 Bilderberg | |
Henning Voschherau | 13 August 1941 | 24 August 2016 | Attended the 1996 Bilderberg as Mayor of Hamburg |
Ernst Welteke | 21 August 1942 | President of Deutsche Bundesbank from September 1999 until he was forced to resign in 2004. | |
Norbert Wieczorek | 12 December 1940 | 12 April 2022 | German politician who attended the 1985 Bilderberg meeting. |
Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski | 24 July 1922 | 24 February 2005 | German Bilderberg Steering committee member, 4 Bilderbergs in the 1970s |