Social Democratic Party of Germany

Social Democratic Party of Germany   (Political party)
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).

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.

 

Party Members

Politician	Born	Died	Description
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

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