Karl Mommer
 Karl Mommer    ( politician) | ||||||||||||||
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 Karl Mommer receives the Federal Cross of Merit from Eugen Gerstenmaier (1965) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 March 1910 Wevelinghoven, Germany | |||||||||||||
| Died | 3 September 1990 (Age 80) Bonn, Germany | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||
| Children | Bernard Mommer | |||||||||||||
| Party | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |||||||||||||
A part of the transatlantic right wing of the Social Democrats, he was Vice President of the Bundestag when he attended the 1968 Bilderberg.
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Karl Mommer was a German politician. A part of the transatlantic right wing of the Social Democrats, he was Vice President of the Bundestag when he attended the 1968 Bilderberg.
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Education
After graduating from high school, Mommer studied philosophy, economics and history in Cologne, Berlin, Graz and Vienna.[1]
Before World War 2
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933, he took part in illegal actions and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. After serving his sentence, he fled to Belgium. He received his doctorate in social sciences in 1935 in Brussels with Hendrik de Man with the thesis "The Young Marx and the State". He then worked as a private teacher and accountant.[1]
As a student, Karl Mommer, whose father had already been active in the party, had joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1930. During his exile in Brussels, he first kept in touch with the local leadership of the exile KPD, to which his sister Elvira also belonged at first. When she was arrested in the Soviet Union in 1938, he broke with communism in 1938 and joined the Social Democrats.[1]
During the Second World War, he was interned in France in 1940/41 and then worked as an independent farmer in the south of France.[1]
After World War 2
In 1946 Mommer returned to Germany and became a consultant for social policy and refugee issues at the State Council of the American Occupation Zone in Stuttgart. From 1947 to 1949 he was a consultant at the German Office for Peace Issues, which was also based in Stuttgart. Mommer was a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone in 1948/49.[2]
He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1969. In the 1950s, he was on the Federal Executive Committee of the SPD. He was part of right wing of the Social Democrats and criticized in particular the policies of East Germany and the other communist states.
Mommer was chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Bundestag from 1949 to March 21, 1952. From 10 May 1957 until the end of the second parliamentary term, he was deputy chairman of the Special Committee "Common Market/Euratom". Then he acted from 1957 to the 14. December 1966 as Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group and was subsequently Vice-President of the Bundestag until October 20, 1969.[3]
In addition, he was the first German to be president of the Atlantic Treaty Association from 1976 to 1979.
Mommer was temporarily a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the WEU and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he headed the "Committee on Relations with National Parliaments and the Public" in 1957.
Family
Karl Mommer is the father of Bernard Mommer, the former Deputy Minister of Energy and Petroleum of Venezuela.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1968 | 26 April 1968 | 28 April 1968 | Canada Mont Tremblant | The 17th Bilderberg and the 2nd in Canada |
