Georg Zimmer-Lehmann
 Georg Zimmer-Lehmann  ( financier) | |
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| Born | 20 January 1917 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 15 April 1998 (Age 81) Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Interests |  European Forum Alpbach |
Austrian conservative resistance activist against the Third Reich. After the war, a financier with a quarter century long Bilderberg habit. | |
Georg Zimmer-Lehmann was an Austrian conservative resistance activist against the Third Reich. After the war, he became a financier and and Senior Advisor to the Managing Board of Director of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein, with a quarter century long Bilderberg habit.
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Background
He was born in 1917.[1]
World War 2
After the occupation of Austria by the Third Reich in 1938, he soon became involved in the Catholic-conservative resistance and became the head of the monarchist ‘Austrian Combat League’ (ÖK), which distributed leaflets, and the resistance group known as 'O5', which had contacts to Allen Dulles based in Switzerland.[2] On December 18, 1944, the 'Provisional Austrian National Committee' (POEN) was formed as a political body, which was to take over the representation of the resistance movements as a non-partisan association to the outside world.
Leaflet actions call on the population to support the advancing Soviet Army. In order to spare Vienna a fate similar to that which Budapest, which had been fought over for a long time and largely destroyed, had to experience, Major Carl Szokoll developed a plan for the handover of Vienna to the Red Army without a fight. On April 3, 1945, the contact with the Soviet command under Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin succeeded. Between the group '05' and the military resistance there was cooperation and support for the operation, which was betrayed shortly before the execution on the night of April 5-6. Georg von Zimmer-Lehmann, was involved in the planning and was actively involved.[3]
When Otto Scholik and I met in Stockerau, both coming from some front and convinced that the war was lost, we were mainly concerned with the questions of how and in what form Austria should be reborn. ... we were also clear that Austria would have to re-emerge as an independent state after the war.[3]
Post-war career
After the war, Georg von Zimmer-Lehmann first worked as an editor for the weekly newspaper Die Furche from 1945 to 1949.
He then became director of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein. He worked for well-known Creditanstalt general directors such as Heinrich Treichl, Hannes Androsch and Guido Schmidt-Chiari. He was described as "sitting in the antechamber of power. His function was indefinite."[4]
He is one of the co-founders of the European Forum Alpbach and the "Club of Business Journalists"[3].
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1962 | 18 May 1962 | 20 May 1962 | Sweden Saltsjöbaden | The 11th Bilderberg meeting and the first one in Sweden. |
| Bilderberg/1987 | 24 April 1987 | 26 April 1987 | Italy Cernobbio | 35th Bilderberg, in Italy, 106 participants |
| Bilderberg/1988 | 3 June 1988 | 5 June 1988 | Austria Interalpen-Hotel Telfs-Buchen | The 36th meeting, 114 participants |
Events Witnessed
| Event | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/1978 | US New Jersey Princeton University | The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US |
| Bilderberg/1979 | Austria Baden Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf | 27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria |
| Bilderberg/1980 | Germany Aachen | The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror |
| Bilderberg/1982 | Norway Sandefjord | The 30th Bilderberg, held in Norway. |
| Bilderberg/1983 | Canada Quebec Château Montebello | The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada |
| Bilderberg/1985 | New York US Arrowwood of Westchester Rye Brook | The 33rd Bilderberg, held in Canada |
| Bilderberg/1986 | Scotland Gleneagles Hotel | The 34th Bilderberg, 109 participants |
