Paul Leverkuehn
 Paul Leverkuehn    (lawyer, politician, spook) | ||||||||||||
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 A political poster from 1957 | ||||||||||||
| Born | 31 July 1893 Lübeck, Germany | |||||||||||
| Died | 1 March 1960 (Age 66) Hamburg, Germany | |||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen | |||||||||||
| Party | NSDAP, CDU | |||||||||||
German politician who went to the first Bilderberg and fourth Bilderbergs
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Paul Leverkuehn was a German spook, lawyer and politician. He went to the first Bilderberg in 1954.
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Education
Paul Leverkuehn was the second son of a Lübeck district judge. After graduating from high school at the Katharineum in Lübeck, he studied law at the University of Edinburgh, Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, Berlin, Königsberg and Göttingen.
World War 1 spook
At the outbreak of the First World War, he and his brother Karl Gustav (1892-1918) voluntarily joined the cavalry. In 1915/16, the brothers were involved in secret actions on the Turkish-Persian border area on behalf of the Foreign Office under the command of Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter. After they had recovered from malaria, Paul Leverkuehn was from 1917, again under von Scheubner-Richter, press officer at the General High Command in Riga.
After the end of the war, he completed his law studies, completed his legal clerkship in his hometown of Lübeck and in 1922 took a doctorate in law in Göttingen with a dissertation on trusts and cartels in the legal life of England, America and Germany.
Inter-war career
Subsequently, he was first a consultant at the German-English Arbitration Court and at the "America Office" of the Foreign Office for one year. From 1923 to 1925 he was a consultant for the German-American joint Commission in Washington D.C., before working as a banker in New York City until 1928. In 1928, he moved to the German Embassy in Washington, where, as commissioner, took care of the release of confiscated German assets.
In 1930 he returned to Germany and settled as a lawyer in Berlin. In 1933 he separated from his Jewish law partner Simon Wolf. In 1934/35 Adam von Trott zu Solz spent part of his legal clerkship in his law firm, in 1938/39 Helmuth James von Moltke (both involved in the 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler) worked for him.
From 1938, together with Kurt Vermehren, he represented Anna Anderson as a lawyer for over 20 years, in her ultimately futile attempts to assert her claim to be the tsar's daughter Anastasia in court.[1]
On December 31, 1937, he applied for admission to the NSDAP and was admitted retroactively on May 1 of the same year (membership number 5,847,748).[2]
World War 2 spook
In 1939 he was briefly called up to the Wehrmacht, but a year later he was appointed by the Foreign Office as consul in Tabriz (Persia). From 1941 to 1944 Leverkuehn, who had contacts with the resistance through the German Abwehr chief Wilhelm Canaris, was then chief of the German Abwehr in Istanbul. When at the beginning of 1942 he was exposed by the opposing MI6 after arrests of German informers[3] practically the entire German intelligence service in Turkey was destroyed. Herbert Rittlinger became his successor without his knowledge. However, Leverkuehn officially remained the head of the German Abwehr in order not to endanger the camouflage of his successor Rittlinger. It is alleged that Leverkuehn never knew about this.[3]
After he was dismissed in 1944, he became the authorized representative of the Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken AG (DWM) until the end of the war. From 1940 to 1945, the Quandt family factories – including DWM – were staffed with more than 50,000 forced civilian laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp workers.[4]
Post-war career
After the Second World War, Leverkuehn worked as a lawyer in Hamburg, but already in 1946 he moved to the Reichsbank in Hamburg for a year. In 1948/49 he was the criminal defence lawyer of general Walter Warlimont in the OKW trial, the twelfth of the Nuremberg succession trials. He was also involved in the general Fritz von Manstein trial in the British zone as a defender. From 1951 to 1953 he was a member of the German delegation to the London Debt Conference.
At the beginning of May 1954, despite the opposition of Franz Josef Strauss, he was elected president of the Europa-Union Germany, but resigned from office in September after he had suffered a serious car accident. [5] From 1957 until his death, he was president of the Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg.
Bundestag
Leverkuehn was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 until his death. At the same time, he was also a deputy member of the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1954 to 1960.
He was also a member of the European Parliament from 27 February 1958 to 4 November 1959. He was chairman of the Rules Committee there in 1959.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1954 | 29 May 1954 | 31 May 1954 | Netherlands Hotel Bilderberg Oosterbeek | The first Bilderberg meeting, attended by 68 men from Europe and the US, including 20 businessmen, 25 politicians, 5 financiers & 4 academics. |
| Bilderberg/1956 | 11 May 1956 | 13 May 1956 | Denmark Fredensborg | The 4th Bilderberg meeting, with 147 guests, in contrast to the generally smaller meetings of the 1950s. Has two Bilderberg meetings in the years before and after |
References
- ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-43062183.html
- ↑ Bundesarchiv R 9361-IX KARTEI/25680812
- ↑ a b Herbert Rittlinger: Geheimdienst mbH. Stuttgart, 1973.
- ↑ http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=301361
- ↑ Wilfried Loth: Das Europa der Verbände: Die Europa-Union im europäischen Integrationsprozess (1949–1969). In: Jürgen Mittag, Wolfgang Wessels (Hrsg.): „Der Kölsche Europäer“ – Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim und die Europäische Einigung. Aschendorff Verlag Münster 2005.
