Adolf W. Schmidt
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Born | September 13, 1904 | |||||||||||
Died | December 17, 2000 (Age 96) | |||||||||||
Nationality | US | |||||||||||
Member of | Bohemian Grove, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Le Cercle, Links Club, Office of Strategic Services | |||||||||||
Interests | Pittsburgh | |||||||||||
Got his big break from marrying into the Mellon family fortune, was in the OSS during WW2, and worked for a number of transatlantic associations. Le Cercle. Attended Bilderberg/1965, the same year he became US Ambassador to Canada.
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Adolf W. Schmidt was a US deep state actor. He got his big break from marrying into the Mellon family fortune, was in the OSS during World War 2, and worked for a number of transatlantic associations. Johannes Grossmann names Schmidt as a Cercle member.[1] He attended the 1965 Bilderberg meeting, the same year he became US Ambassador to Canada.
Background
Adolph W. Schmidt was born in 1904 and raised in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.[2] After graduation he studied in France and Germany, then at Princeton University and Harvard Business School.[3]
He met his future wife, Helen "Patsy" Mellon (great-granddaughter of Thomas Mellon, founder of the Mellon Bank), during a fox hunt at the Rolling Rock Club in the Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania.[4] The two married in 1936.
OSS
Schmidt joined the military following the outbreak of World War II. He was in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as an intelligence officer during the war, obtaining the rank of Lieutenant colonel. For a part of war he worked abroad in Africa, while his wife Helen was in Washington, D.C. working for the United States Navy.[5]
Post-war activities
After the war, Schmidt became president of the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, working there from 1946 to 1969.[3] In this capacity, he played a major role in "Renaissance I", the urban renewal of Pittsburgh.[2] He was also heavily involved in the creation of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.[3] and president of the Presbyterian-University Hospital.
Schmidt supported the concept of an Atlantic Union initially proposed by Clarence K. Streit in 1939. After the Axis powers were defeated in WWII, and the West's former ally, the Soviet Union, emerged as an enemy state, the core concepts of the Atlantic Union idea were eventually adopted by Western leaders, but implemented through the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Coal Steel Community which evolved into the European Union. NATO and European integration efforts, strengthened by the Marshall Plan, provided the infrastructure.[6].
Schmidt was connected to several groups promoting "Atlantic unity",like the Atlantic Union Committee, the Atlantic Institute, the International Movement for Atlantic Union, U.S. Citizens Commission on NATO, the Atlantic Council of the United States, and the Atlantic Congress.[6]
Schmidt began his diplomatic career when he represented the United States at the 1957 Conference on North Atlantic Community and at the 1962 Atlantic Convention of NATO Nations,[2] where he worked to create and carry out their recommendations for an Atlantic Institute.[6] In 1969, President Richard Nixon named Schmidt United States Ambassador to Canada. Ambassador Schmidt presented his credentials on September 11, 1969, and served as the U.S. representative in Ottawa until January 29, 1974.
He was one of the co-founders of the Pittsburgh Playhouse, and was the first chairman of the Three Rivers Arts Festival.[2]
Event Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Bilderberg/1965 | 2 April 1965 | 4 April 1965 | Italy Villa d'Este | The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy |
References
- ↑ https://isgp-studies.com/Le_Cercle_membership_list
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c d https://web.archive.org/web/20061110100056/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_105329.html
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c Profile of Clarke M. Thomas, A Patrician of Ideas: A Biography of A. W. Schmidt
- ↑ http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_528623.html
- ↑ https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2007/10/23/Obituary-Helen-Mellon-Schmidt-Mellon-family-member-and-avid-birdwatcher/stories/200710230138
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-PPiU-ais196803/viewer