Helmut Schmidt
 Helmut Schmidt    (politician) | |
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| Born | Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt 1918-12-23 Hamburg, Germany |
| Died | 10 November 2015 (Age 96) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
| Children | 2 |
| Spouse | Loki Schmidt |
| Founder of | Atlantik-Brücke |
| Member of | Atlantik-Brücke, Königswinter/Speakers, Power Corporation of Canada, The European House - Ambrosetti, US/Department/State/International Visitor Leadership Program |
| Party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Helmut Schmidt was a German politician. His coalition fell apart in 1982 after what Scott Thompson writes was "a heavy-handed wrecking job" planned at Le Cercle.
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Activities
Helmut Schmidt co-founded Atlantik-Brücke.[citation needed]
Opposition
“Participants at Le Cercle meetings report that a major issue has been how to bring about the demise of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. This issue dominated the last biannual meeting of Le Cercle that was hosted by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the official think tank of opposition leader Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, in Munich last May. Le Cercle's participants have been able to carry out an inside-outside job to destroy the Schmidt coalition government since then. While Strauss's CSU carried out a heavy-handed wrecking job that included an implicit alliance with the Strasserite fascist Green Party, sources report that Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Henry Kissinger took the inside track since the ouster of Secretary of State Alexander Haig, threatening, cajoling, and misleading Schmidt into his disastrous pragmatic political course.”
Scott Thompson (1982) [1]
Appointments by Helmut Schmidt
| Appointee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kurt Becker | Government spokesman | 1980 | 1982 | Attended Bilderberg/1967 and Bilderberg/1975 |
| Gunter Huonker | Parliamentary state secretary to the Chancellor | 10 December 1979 | 28 April 1982 | |
| Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski | Parliamentary state secretary to the Chancellor | 1976 | 1979 |
Employee on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
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| Kurt Becker | Government spokesman | 1980 | 1982 | Attended Bilderberg/1967 and Bilderberg/1975 |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/1966 | 25 March 1966 | 27 March 1966 | Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof | Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment. |
| Bilderberg/1967 | 31 March 1967 | 2 April 1967 | United Kingdom St John's College (Cambridge) UK | Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge) |
| Bilderberg/1969 | 9 May 1969 | 11 May 1969 | Denmark Hotel Marienlyst Elsinore | The 18th Bilderberg meeting, with 85 participants |
| Bilderberg/1973 | 11 May 1973 | 13 May 1973 | Sweden Saltsjöbaden | The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned. |
| Bilderberg/1974 | 19 April 1974 | 21 April 1974 | France Hotel Mont d' Arbois Megève | The 23rd Bilderberg, held in France |
| Bilderberg/1977 | 22 April 1977 | 24 April 1977 | United Kingdom Imperial Hotel Torquay | The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England. |
| Bilderberg/1980 | 18 April 1980 | 20 April 1980 | Germany Aachen | The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror |
| Bilderberg/1983 | 13 May 1983 | 15 May 1983 | Canada Quebec Château Montebello | The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada |
| Bilderberg/1986 | 25 April 1986 | 27 April 1986 | Scotland Gleneagles Hotel | The 34th Bilderberg, 109 participants |
| Munich Security Conference/2014 | 31 January 2014 | 2 February 2014 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 50th Munich Security Conference |
