Pieter Blaisse

Pieter Blaisse   (diplomat, politician, businessman)
Born	24 April 1911 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died	1 August 1990 (Age 79) Den Haag, Netherlands
Nationality	Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam, Leibniz University Hannover
Party	Catholic People's Party
Dutch politician who attended 6 Bilderberg meetings. He was mainly active in the field of foreign trade and Europa integration.  Member of the European Parliament In office 1958 - 1967

Pieter Alfnos Blaisse was a Dutch civil servant, politician and administrator who attended 6 Bilderberg meetings. He was mainly active in the field of foreign trade and Europa integration.

==Education After completing gymnasium at Sint Ignatius College, he went on to study law at the Municipal University of Amsterdam (1929 - 1934) and economics at the Technischer Hochschule Hannover (1934 - 1935).

Career

He worked successively as executive secretary at a textile factory (1934-1935) and Philips' light bulb factories (1935 - 1940), after which he went to work as secretary at Hoofdgroep Industrie (1940-1942).

He was briefly a member of the Dutch people's movement (1945-1946). After the war he briefly became deputy director at the Centraal Plan Bureau and a member of the temporary city council of The Hague. Then he went to work as an administrator at the Directorate of Rehabilitation and Facilities at the Ministry of Economic Affairs (1946 - 1952). Blaisse was involved in the Preparatory Commission for the establishment of the United Nations (1945) and (together with Marga Klompé) for the preparation of the European statute 1953 (1952/1953) which paved the way for the establishment of the European Economic Community.

In 1952, he became a member of the Second Chamber for the Catholic People's Party (KVP). Apart from a short break from 1956, he would remain a member until 1967. He was a prominent member, and some times referred to as the secretary of state and was very good friends with Joseph Luns. He was in 1959 referred to as deputy prime minister in charge of Foreign Trade.

In the chamber, he was spokesman for trade policy, economic and European affairs, among other things. He was chairman of the Standing Committee of the House of Representatives on trade policy (1956-1963), the committee of preparation for the bill approving treaties establishing the EEC and Euratom (1957), the special committee on the draft bill approving the convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and development and revising the Treaty on European Economic Co-operation (1961), the Standing Committee of the House of Representatives on Nuclear Energy (1963-1967) and the special committee for the draft Continental Shelf Mining Act (1964/1965). He was also vice-chairman of the Standing House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs (1966-1967).

Blaisse has represented the Netherlands in the European Community (EEC), the European Coal and Steel Community (1952 - 1958), and was in the European Parliament (1958-1967). There, from 1961 to 1967, he was Vice-President of parliament and chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the internal market.

In December 1966, to his surprise, Blaisse was not nominated by the KVP for the House of Representatives and in 1967 he was therefore not re-elected. He then went to work as a legal and economic consultant in The Hague, and on 1 January 1969 he was appointed special professor of legal and economic aspects of international organizations and group structure at the Delft University of Technology, where he would remain until 1980.

From 1966 he also held various supervisory positions at Dutch and foreign companies, such as Elsevier, AMRO Bank and Aegon.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1958	13 September 1958	15 September 1958	United Kingdom Buxton UK	The 7th Bilderberg and the first one in the UK. 72 guests
Bilderberg/1960	28 May 1960	29 May 1960	Switzerland Bürgenstock	The 9th such meeting and the first one in Switzerland. 61 participants + 4 "in attendance". The meeting report contains a press statement, 4 sentences long.
Bilderberg/1961	21 April 1961	23 April 1961	Canada Quebec St-Castin	The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe.
Bilderberg/1962	18 May 1962	20 May 1962	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The 11th Bilderberg meeting and the first one in Sweden.
Bilderberg/1963	29 March 1963	31 March 1963	France Cannes Hotel Martinez	The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France.
Bilderberg/1965	2 April 1965	4 April 1965	Italy Villa d'Este	The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy

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