Józef Retinger

Józef Hieronim Retinger ( born April 17, 1888 in Kraków, Austria - Hungary, † June 12, 1960 in London) was a Polish doctorate in literary scholar and policy consultant. He as the founder of European political organizations, especially the transatlantic Bilderberg conference became known.

Life

Retinger attended from 1906 to 1911, the University of Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied literature, history, and received his doctorate there, too. Then he went to England, where his Polish compatriot Joseph Conrad lived; Retinger published in 1941 a monograph on Conrad. In 1917, he traveled to Mexico, where he was active as an unofficial adviser to the union leader Luis Morones and President Plutarco Elías Calles. During the Second World War, he advised General Władysław Sikorski, the Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile in England. One of his most spectacular operations was a cash in transit amounting to several million dollars for the Polish Home Army by parachute jump.

After the war he became a committed advocate of European unification movement and founded the European Movement ( European Movement ) and the Euro Europe (Council of Europe ). Specific intensity he related to the organization of the Bilderberg conferences. This platform will bring together political leaders, civil servants, bankers and industrialists on both sides of the Atlantic for an informal exchange of views as discrete at a table.

Works

  • Le conte fantastique dans le français romantisme. Paris, Grasset, 1909. Slatkine Reprints, Geneva 1973.
  • Histoire de la littérature française, à nos jours du romantisme. Paris, Grasset, 1911.
  • Polacy w cywilizacjach zagranicznych. Warszawa 1934
  • The rise of the Mexican labor movement. With an introduction letter and biography of the Mexican labor leader Luis Morones N.. Documentary Publications, Washington, D.C. 1976 (1926)
  • Conrad and his contemporaries. Souvenirs. Minerva, London 1941
  • All about Poland. Facts. Figures. Documents. Ed. by J. H. Retinger. With map of Poland (2nd impr. , Rev. ), " Minerva " Publ Co., London 1941
  • Memoirs of an eminence grise. Ed. by John Pomian. With a foreword by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Univ. Press, Sussex, 1972 ( with portrait of Joseph H. Retinger )
  • Politicians (Poland )
  • Pole
  • Born in 1888
  • Died in 1960
  • Man
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