WEF/Annual Meeting/1978

 WEF/Annual Meeting/1978(WEF/Annual Meeting)

Date	January 1978
Location	Davos,  Switzerland
Description	held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1978.
Planners	WEF
Participants	Klaus Schwab, Johannes Marten den Uyl, Ralf Dahrendorf, Franz Josef Strauss, Jean Rey, Nello Celio, Kenneth Roy Thomson, Paul R. Jolles, Alonzo L. McDonald, Assar Lindbeck, Nicholas Kaldor, Gerhard Schmidtchen

The 1978 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, still known as the European Management Forum, was held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1978.

Participants

600 business leaders.

Own words

On the question of how he came up with the idea of the forum, Klaus Schwab replied that “There was a precedent: the Bilderberg conference, sponsored by Prince Bernhard and which brought together once a year, select privileged people. But it remained confidential, and in the end it was always the same people who saw each other. I shared the opinion of those who thought that a wider platform was necessary.”

In September 1977, the Red Army Faction kidnapped Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the President of both the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA) and one of the most influential men in Germany. His body was discovered more than a month later in the boot of a car. When he was abducted, Schleyer had already agreed to chair the 1978 European Management Symposium.

"The Congress Centre in Davos resembled a fortress," reported the German business magazine Capital. "Participants – all of them highly paid managers – had to deposit their fingerprints, pass the computerized control each time they entered into the building and wind themselves through the guard mounted by policemen armed with machine guns. Yet they accepted the inconveniences without complaint." The Forum has continued to give the security and safety of participants in its events the highest priority.

 

Known Participants

All 12 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Nello Celio	Swiss politician
Ralf Dahrendorf	German born philosopher. Regular contributor to Bilderberg meetings.
Paul Jolles	Quad Bilderberger Swiss diplomat businessman
Nicholas Kaldor	Hungarian/British economist with large influence on 1960-70 Labour governments
Assar Lindbeck	Swedish economist in the Wallenberg Sphere. Originally aligned with the [[Swedish Social Democrats |Swedish Social Democrats]] under Olof Palme, he swapped sides to the opposition with great media attention in 1982, and was selected to attend the 1984 Bilderberg meeting.=
Alonzo McDonald	US businessman who attended the 1977 Bilderberg. The same year he was appointed by Jimmy Carter as Deputy Special Trade Representative and Ambassador in charge of the U.S. Delegation to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva.
Jean Rey	Belgian politician and Freemason, and President of the European Commission from 1967 to 1970
Gerhard Schmidtchen
Klaus Schwab	German economist, Bilderberg Steering committee, World Economic Forum Board of Trustees
Franz Josef Strauß	A deep politician and politician, a known attendee of Le Cercle, accused in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
Kenneth Roy Thomson	Canadian/British businessman and member of The Pilgrims society
Joop Den Uyl	Politician. Dutch Prime Minister. Deep state functionary. Teenage Adolf Hitler fan. While leading the most "socialist" coalition in Dutch history Den Uyl's cabinet secretly smuggled weapons to Israel for the Yom Kippur War, trained their soldiers, set up the first national counterterrorism units used in controversial missions, cover-up Prince Bernhard Northrop Affair.

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