Bilderberg/1955 September

 Bilderberg/1955 September(Bilderberg/Meeting)

From the 1955 Spiegel Report
Date	23 September 1955 - 25 September 1955
Location	Garmisch-Partenkirchen,  Bavaria,  Germany
Participants	Prince Bernhard, J. H. Retinger, Joseph E. Johnson, George W. Ball, Fritz Berg, George Barry Bingham, Pierre Bonvoisin, Max Brauer, Fraser W. Bruce, Carl J. Burckhardt, Anthony Buzzard, Louis Camu, V. Cavendish-Bentinck, Hakon Christiansen, Walker L. Cisler, René Clement-Cuzin, Geoffrey Crowther, Joseph N. Dodge, Jean Drapier, Fritz Erler, Amintore Fanfani, John H. Ferguson, Ralph E. Flanders, C. J. Geddes, Clinton S. Golden, Herbert Gross, Alfred M. Gruenther, Walter Hallstein, Gabriel Hauge, Jens Christian Hauge, Denis Healey, Henry J. Heinz II, Paul G. Hoffman, John Hope, Hastings Ismay, Douglas Jay, P. J. Kapteyn, George F. Kennan, Kurt-Georg Kiesinger, E. N. van Kleffens, Ole Bjørn Kraft, Sjur Lindebrække, Giovanni F. Malagodi, Robert Marjolin, Reginald Maudling, Alexander Menne, Fritz P. Molden, Guy Mollet, Roger Motz, Rudolf Mueller, Robert Murphy, George C. McGhee, George Nebolsine, Paul Nitze, Lauris Norstad, J. H. Oldenbroek, Duncan Oppenheim, Antoine Partrat, George W. Perkins, Jacques Piette, Alberto Pirelli, Pietro Quaroni, N. A. Robertson, David Rockefeller, Denis de Rougemont, Dean Rusk, Paul Rykens, Carlo Schmid, Hans Günther Sohl, John J. Sparkman, Charles Spofford, Dolf Sternberger, Thomas Stone, Herbert L. G. Tingsten, Etienne de la Vallee Poussin, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Zafrulla Khan, Paul van Zeeland, J. D. Zellerbach
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Witnessed by	Terence Airey, Frank Darvall, E. G. Focke, G. Gather, F. A. De Graaf, H. J. Kruls, John Pomian
Description	The third Bilderberg, in West Germany. The subject of a report by Der Spiegel which inspired a heavy blackout of subsequent meetings.

Not to be confused with the 1955 March Bilderberg

The September 1955 Bilderberg Meeting was the third Bilderberg meeting and the second one that year. It had participants from 11 European countries, the United States and Canada. All were male. It was held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany. The 78 guests included 19 business executives, 25 politicians, 4 financiers, 2 editors/journalists and 6 academics. The second Bilderberg meeting that year (after the Bilderberg/1955 March conference) it was the subject of a report by Der Spiegel, which was the most informative such report in the commercially-controlled media for years, perhaps decades.

Group size research

The organisers of the Bilderberg were apparently conducting research on how group size would affect the meetings, since the smallest ever Bilderberg, just 42 guests, was held that March, while the next meeting was the 1956 Bilderberg, which at 147 guests was possibly the largest ever.

Agenda

The Agenda of the October 1955 Bilderberg has been leaked and is now online.

5. European Unity

The promotion of supranational group as part of a European Deep State, dominated by Bilderberg members, would be a permanent part of the Bilderberg agenda.

Exposure

Admission card of George McGhee for the 1955 September Bilderberg

The edition of Der Spiegel of 5 October 1955 contained a report of over 2 pages about the "Secret Conference", which named over a dozen of the participants.

Press Statement

The meeting report contains a half page press statement.

 

Known Participants

75 of the 78 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Otto Wolff von Amerongen	Bilderberg Advisory Committee member, deep politician
George Ball	US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe.
Victor Cavendish Bentinck	Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, diplomat, 7 Bilderbergs
Fritz Berg	President of the Federation of German Industries - "the real government of West Germany" - for over 20 years. 13 Bilderbergs.
Bernhard von Biesterfeld	Nazi arms dealer. Alleged bodyguard of Hitler, early member of the SS, requested presidency under Hitler during WW2. An early leader of the Dutch Deep State, founded Dutch division of Operation Gladio named Inlichtingen en Operatiën, co-founded Bilderberg as Steering Committee chairman. Started 1001 Club, WWF, Rijkens Club. Linked to Klaas Bruinsma.
Barry Bingham	Kentucky media owner who collaborated with British Security Coordination. Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Ran the Marshall Plan in France in 1949.
Pierre Bonvoisin	Attended the first Bilderberg and three more. Société Générale de Belgique. Councilor to King Baudouin. Father of Benoît de Bonvoisin
Max Brauer	Mayor of Hamburg. One of a dozen men whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg
Fraser Bruce	Canadian aluminum executive who attended 3 early Bilderberg meetings.
Carl Burckhardt	President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1945–48), where he assisted Germans wanted for war crimes escape to South America. September 1955 and 1956 Bilderberg meetings.
Anthony Buzzard	Director of UK Naval Intelligence from 1951-1954. Attended the 3rd and 4th Bilderbergs after retiring
Louis Camu	Belgian atlanticist banker and multi-Bilderberger. Proponent of European unification and creating a single European currency.
Hakon Christiansen	Danish businessman. Bilderberg Steering committee.
Walker Cisler	As well as the first Bilderberg, he attended the next four, and 3 more in the early 1960s, US businessman
René Clement-Cuzin	Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Little known, possibly an economist.
Geoffrey Crowther	Attended the Bilderberg in the 1950s twice as Editor of the Economist
Joseph Dodge	US financier and economic advisor who worked on the financial restructuring of Germany after World War II. Attended the 3rd and 4th Bilderbergs
Jean Drapier	Principal Private Secretary to Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, went to 3 of the first 4 Bilderbergs
Fritz Erler	SPD Deputy chair. Attended all Bilderberg meetings from 1955 September to his death in 1967, aged 53
Amintore Fanfani	Quad bilderberger, Italian PM
John Ferguson	US lawyer, attended the first Bilderberg and 7 others in the 1950s. US Ambassador to Morocco 1962-64
Ralph Flanders	Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
C. J. Geddes	British trade union leader who later was knighted
Clinton Golden	Anti-communist labor union leader. Double Bilderberger
Herbert Gross	Writer for the Nazi magazine Das Reich who in 1946 founded the Handelsblatt. One of the first to fundamentally deal with public relations on a programmatic level in post-war West Germany. Attended the 3rd and 4th Bilderbergs.
Walter Hallstein	Taken prisoner by the Americans in June 1944, where he was selected for special training as part of "Project Sunflower", a reeducation plan for possible future decision-makers. Became one of the founding fathers of the European Union. Multi-Bilderberg
Gabriel Hauge	Early member of the Bilderberg Steering committee, CFR. "The expert who tells [President Eisenhower] what to think"
Jens Christian Hauge	Bilderberg Steering Committee, Pivotal Norwegian deep politician post-WWII
Denis Healey	Bilderberg Steering committee member, who attended 23 Bilderberg meetings.
Paul Hoffman	Five time early Bilderberger, UNDP administrator
John Hope	Scottish aristocrat and Tory politician.
H. John Heinz II	34 Bilderberg meetings, Bilderberg Steering & Advisory Committees
Hastings Ismay	Ex Secretary General of NATO.
Douglas Jay	UK politician
Joseph Johnson	Inaugural US secretary of the annual Bilderberg, Bilderberg Steering committee member.
P. J. Kapteyn	Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
George Kennan	Suspected US deep politician, member of the Georgetown Set
Kurt Georg Kiesinger	Five early Bilderbergs, German Chancellor. Possible tool of the BND
E. N. van Kleffens	Dutch Bilderberger, heavy Bilderberg habit, President of the United Nations General Assembly 1954-55
Ole Bjørn Kraft	A Danish conservative politician whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg group
Sjur Lindebrække	«Father of the modern Norwegian Conservative Party» who persuaded it to support NATO. Attended September 1956 and 1956 Bilderberg meetings.
Giovanni Malagodi	Italian liberal politician and supporter of European unity under American guiding hand. Attended the first Bilderberg and 8 others.
Robert Marjolin	French economist/civil servant involved in the Marshall Plan and the formation of the European Economic Community.
Reginald Maudling	UK politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Bilderberg Steering committee
George McGhee	US ambassador, spook, Committee on the Present Danger, 12 Bilderbergs in the 1950s and 60s.
Alexander Menne	Transatlantic German politician (FDP) and industrial manager who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s.
Fritz Molden	Austrian journalist, publisher, diplomat who attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Guy Mollet	One of a dozen men whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg group
Roger Motz	Belgian politician who attended 4 Bilderberg meetings in the 1950s, including the first one.
Rudolf Mueller	Consulted by Józef Retinger when setting up the Bilderberg group
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Witnesses

Witness	Description
Terence Airey	Early Bilderberg Steering committee. UK soldier
Frank Darvall	UK labour leader who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
E. G. Focke	In attendance at the first Bilderberg and two further Bilderbergs
G. Gather	Unknown German visitor to the third Bilderberg meeting
Frans A. de Graaf	Private secretary of Prince Bernhard
H. J. Kruls	Explosive Dutch general during World War 2. Trusted liaison of Prince Bernhard, former head advisor for the board of directors of KLM. Bilderberger.
John Pomian	Multi-Bilderberg Polish nobleman who settled in the UK

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
File:Bilderberg-meetings-report-1955.pdf	report			A summary of the 1955 Bilderberg meeting that took place from September 23-25 at the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany.

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