Rudolf Mueller

Rudolf Mueller  link Prabook (Lawyer,businessman,deep state actor)
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Born	January 18, 1904 Darmstadt,Hesse,Germany
Died	March 20, 1997
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Amherst College, Heidelberg University
Party	FDP
US educated German lawyer and business leader. One of the founders of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1949. Consulted by Józef Retinger when setting up the Bilderberg group.

Dr. Rudolf Mueller was a US-educated German lawyer and business leader who after the war helped found the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1949, He was one of a dozen men whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg group. He wrote a paper on the Weaknesses of Western Society in 1957. The paper was a talking point at the Meeting of the Steering Committee in London on January 10-12, 1958 and also commented about by Pietro Quaroni.

Background

He was the son of the mayor of Darmstadt, Rudolf Mueller, and from 1926 he was able to spend three years as an exchange student at Amherst College in Massachusetts, USA. He married an American woman.

Career

From 1940 until the end of the war, he was one of the managing directors of Chemiefabrik Röhm & Haas AG in Darmstadt. When the state of Hesse was founded in 1945, the American occupying power decided to set up an executive government itself before the first elections were held. In doing so, it appointed the "non-partisan" Mueller as Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Transport. At the same time, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Hessian predecessor of the FDP, was formed. The fact that Mueller was significantly involved in its foundation may also have been the reason for his appointment as minister, since the Americans were careful to unite as many political currents as possible in the cabinet. On October 1, 1946, he had to hand over his office to Werner Hilpert.

Mueller wanted to remain independent, not to join any party, and settled as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main. He was one of the initiators of a circle called "Büro für Wirtschaftskunde", from which the "Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft von 1947" (Wipog) emerged, a non-profit association in which Mueller was the first and Otto Klepper the second chairman after the foundation. Wipog was one of the many associations and companies used by the BND as a cover for its spies to collect intelligence.

Both worked towards the creation of a newspaper with which the ideas of Wipog – essentially the social market economy – would be made known. The project took concrete form when the Mainz newspaper publisher and Wipog, represented by Rudolf Mueller, founded Verlags-GmbH in Frankfurt am Main on 12 December 1949 to publish the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

He was involved with the European League for Economic Cooperation or ELEC, political advocacy group which advocates for closer European integration. Established in 1946, ELEC was one of the founding members of the European Movement in 1948.

Josef Stalin mentioned Mueller in passing in a communique, Falsificators of History, from 1948:

The leading American chemical concern, E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc. and the British Imperial chemical trust (Imperial Chemical Industries) which was one of the largest shareholders of the General Motors automobile trust, maintained close industrial relations with the German chemical concern, I. G. Farbenindustrie, with which in 1926 they concluded a cartel agreement for a division of the world powder market. Before the war, the president of the Board of Directors of Rohm and Haas Company in Philadelphia was a partner of the head of the same company in Darmstadt (Germany). Incidentally, at present, the former director of this concern, Rudolf Mueller, is active in "Bizonia" and plays an important part among the leaders of the Christian Democratic Union.

Mueller was the founder of the law firm Mueller Weitzel Weisner, which merged into the law firm Hengeler Mueller in 1990.