Schwab family values

Is the real Klaus Schwab a benevolent old uncle figure wishing to do good for humanity, or is he actually the son of a Nazi collaborator who used slavery and helped the Nazis get the first bomb atomic? Johnny Vedmore is investigating.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Klaus Schwab has breakfast at New York's Park East Synagogue with Rabbi Arthur Schneier, former vice president of the World Jewish Congress and close friend of the families Bronfman and Lauder. Together, the two men witnessed one of the most significant events of the next twenty years, when planes struck the buildings of the World Trade Center. Now, two decades later, Klaus Schwab is once again in the front row to witness another defining moment in modern human history.

If Klaus Schwab always seems to have a ringside seat when tragedy approaches, it's probably because he's one of the most connected men on the planet. As the driving force behind the World Economic Forum, “the international organization for public-private cooperation,” Schwab has courted heads of state, prominent business executives, and the elite of academic and scientific circles in the fold of Davos for more than 50 years. More recently, he has also drawn the ire of many due to his more recent role as the leader of the Great Reset, a vast effort to remake civilization on a global level for the express benefit of the elite. of the World Economic Forum and its allies.

At the Forum's annual meeting in January 2021, Schwab stressed that building trust will be integral to the success of the Great Reset, signaling a further expansion of the initiative's already massive public relations campaign. . Although Schwab called for building trust through unspecified "progress", trust is normally facilitated by transparency. Perhaps that's why so many people refused to trust Mr. Schwab and his motives, because so little is known about the history and background of this man before he founded the World Economic Forum in the early 1970s.

As is the case with many elite front men, Mr Schwab's online record has been thoroughly sanitized, making it difficult to find information about his early life and his family. . Yet given that he was born in Ravensburg, Germany in 1938, many have speculated in recent months that Schwab's family may have had some connection to Axis war efforts, ties which, if exposed, could threaten the reputation of the World Economic Forum and bring undesirable scrutiny to its stated missions and motivations.

In this survey of Unlimited hangout, the past that Klaus Schwab worked hard to hide is explored in detail, revealing the Schwab family's involvement not only in the Nazi quest for an atomic bomb, but also in South Africa's illegal nuclear program. Apartheid South. The story of Klaus' father, Eugen Schwab, who led the German branch of a Nazi-backed Swiss engineering company during the war as a top military contractor, is particularly telling. This company, Escher-Wyss, used slave labor to produce machinery essential to the Nazi war effort and the production of heavy water for the Nazi nuclear program. Years later, at the same company, young Klaus Schwab was on the board when it was decided to provide the racist apartheid regime of South Africa with the equipment it needed to continue its quest to become a nuclear power.

While the World Economic Forum is today a prominent advocate of nuclear non-proliferation and clean nuclear energy, Klaus Schwab's past makes him a poor spokesperson for his alleged agenda for the present and future. Yet, digging even deeper into its activities, it becomes clear that Schwab's real role has long been to "shape the global, regional and industry agendas" of the present in order to provide continuity for larger, much older programs. that were discredited after World War II, not only nuclear technology, but also population control policies influenced by eugenics.

A Swabian story

The 10 July 1870, Klaus Schwab's grandfather, Jakob Wilhelm Gottfried Schwab, later simply called Gottfried, was born in a Germany at war with its French neighbour. Karlsruhe, the city where Gottfried Schwab was born, is located in the Grand Duchy of Baden, which was ruled in 1870 by the 43-year-old Grand Duke of Baden, Frederick I. The following year, the said Duke will be present during the proclamation of the German Empire which takes place in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles. He was the only son-in-law of the incumbent Emperor Wilhelm I, and as Frederick I was one of the reigning sovereigns of Germany. When Gottfried Schwab is 18, Germany sees Wilhelm II ascend to the throne upon the death of his father, Frederick III.

In 1893, 23-year-old Gottfried Schwab officially left Germany, renounced his German citizenship and left Karlsruhe to emigrate to Switzerland. At the time, his profession was that of a simple baker. This is where Gottfried meets Marie Lappert, originally from Kirchberg, near Bern, Switzerland, and five years her junior. They married in Roggwil, Bern, on May 27, 1898, and the following year, on April 27, 1899, their child Eugen Schwab was born. At the time of his birth, Gottfried Schwab rose through the ranks, he became a mechanical engineer. When Eugen is about a year old, Gottfried and Marie Schwab decide to move back to Karlsruhe and Gottfried reapply for German citizenship.

Eugen Schwab follows in his father's footsteps and becomes a mechanical engineer himself, and in the years to come he will advise his children to do the same. Eugen Schwab starts working in a factory located in a town in Upper Swabia, southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg.

The factory in which he would make a career was the German branch of a Swiss company called Escher Wyss. Switzerland had many long-standing economic ties with the Ravensburg region. At the beginning of the 19th century, Swiss traders brought yarn and weaving products. At the same time, Ravensburg delivered grain to Rorschach until 1870, as well as farm animals and various cheeses, in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Between 1809 and 1837, 375 Swiss lived in Ravensburg, but the Swiss population numbered only 133 in 1910.

In the 1830s, skilled Swiss workers established a cotton mill with an incorporated bleaching and finishing plant, owned and maintained by the Erpf brothers. The Ravensburg horse market, established around 1840, also attracted many people from Switzerland, especially after the opening in 1847 of the path line fer connecting Ravensburg to Friedrichshafen, a town on nearby Lake Constance on the border between Switzerland and Germany.

Grain traders from Rorsach regularly visited the Ravensburger Kornhaus and eventually this cross-border cooperation and trade also led to the opening of a branch of the Zurich machinery factory, Escher-Wyss & Cie, in the city . This feat was made plausible when a train line connecting Switzerland to the German road network was completed between 1850 and 1853. The factory was established by Walter Zuppinger between 1856 and 1859 and began production in 1860. In 1861, we can see the first official patent of the manufacturers Escher-Wyss of Ravensburg concerning “particular installations on mechanical looms for the weaving of ribbons”. At this time, the Ravensburg branch of Escher Wyss was headed by Walter Zuppinger. It was there that he developed his tangential turbine and obtained a number of additional patents. In 1870, Zuppinger and others also founded a paper mill in Baienfurt, near Ravensburg. He retired in 1875 and devoted all his energy to advancing turbines.

Foundation document of the Escher-Wyss Ravensburg factory, dated 1860.

By the start of the new century, Escher-Wyss had put ribbon weaving aside and was beginning to focus on much larger projects like the production of large industrial turbines. In 1907, they asked for an "approval and concession procedure" for the construction of a hydroelectric plant near Dogern am Rhein, which was reported in a Basel brochure from 1925.

In 1920, Escher-Wyss found itself in the throes of serious financial difficulties. The Treaty of Versailles limited Germany's military and economic growth after the Great War, and the Swiss company finds the slowdown in civil engineering projects in neighboring countries too much to bear. The parent company of Escher-Wyss, located in Zurich, dated back to 1805 and the company, which still enjoyed a good reputation and a history of more than a century, was considered too important to be lost. In December 1920, a reorganization was carried out by reducing the share capital from 11,5 to 4,015 million French francs, then increasing it again to 5,515 million Swiss francs. At the end of the 1931 financial year, Escher-Wyss was still losing money.

Yet the brave company continued to deliver large-scale civil engineering contracts throughout the 1920s, as official correspondence shows. written in 1924 by Wilhelm III, Prince of Urach, to the Escher-Wyss firm and to the wealth manager of the House of Urach, the accountant Julius Heller. This document deals with the “General Terms and Conditions of the Association of German Water Turbine Manufacturers for the Delivery of Machinery and Other Equipment for Water Power Plants”. This is also confirmed in a brochure on the “Conditions of the Association of German Water Turbine Manufacturers for the Installation of Turbines and Machine Parts within the German Reich”, printed on March 20, 1923 in an advertising brochure by Escher -Wyss for a universal oil pressure regulator.

After the Great Depression of the early 1930s devastated the world economy, Escher-Wyss announced: “Due to the catastrophic development of the economic situation linked to the decline of currencies, the company [Escher-Wyss] is temporarily unable to continue its current commitments in various client countries.” The company also revealed that it would seek a stay in court from the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Nachrichten, which reported 1 December 1931 that “the Escher-Wyss company has obtained a stay of bankruptcy until the end of March 1932 and that a trust company has been appointed as trustee in Switzerland”. The article optimistically asserts that “there should be a prospect of business continuity”. In 1931, Escher-Wyss employed approximately 1 non-contract workers and 300 salaried employees.

In the mid-1930s, Escher-Wyss again found itself in financial difficulty. In order to save the company, a consortium was set up to save the struggling engineering company. The consortium is partly formed by the Swiss Federal Bank (which, coincidentally, is headed by a certain Max Schwab, who is not related to Klaus Schwab) and the restructuring continues. In 1938, it is announced that a company engineer, Colonel Jacob Schmidheiny, becomes the new chairman of the board of directors of Escher-Wyss. Shortly after the outbreak of war in 1939,

schmidheiny would have declared : “The outbreak of war does not necessarily mean unemployment for the machinery industry in a neutral country, on the contrary.” Escher-Wyss, and his new leadership, were apparently eager to profit from the war, paving the way for their transformation into a major Nazi military contractor.

A Brief History of the Persecution of the Jews in Ravensburg

When Adolf Hitler came to power, many things changed in Germany, and the story of the Jewish population of Ravensburg at that time is sad to tell. Still, this was not the first time that anti-Semitism was reported to have surfaced in the region.

In the Middle Ages, a synagogue, mentioned as early as 1345, was located in the center of Ravensburg, serving a small Jewish community whose existence can be traced from 1330 to 1429. At the end of the year 1429 and during the year 1430, the Ravensburg Jews were targeted and a terrible slaughter followed. In the neighboring towns of Lindau, Überlingen, Buchhorn (later renamed Friedrichshafen), Meersburg and Konstanz, Jewish residents were arrested en masse. The Jews of Lindau are burned alive during the smear campaign of Ravensburg in 1429/1430, during which members of the Jewish community were accused of ritually sacrificing babies. In August 1430, in Überlingen, the Jewish community was forced to convert, 11 of them did so and the 12 who refused were killed. The massacres that took place in Lindau, Überlingen and Ravensburg took place with the direct approval of King Sigmund and the remaining Jews were quickly expelled from the area.

Ravensburg saw this prohibition confirmed by Emperor Ferdinand I in 1559 and it was maintained, for example, in an instruction published in 1804 for the municipal guard, which reads as follows: “The Jews not being not allowed to engage in trade or commercial activity here, no one else is allowed to enter the city by post or by car, Others, however, if they have not received a permit for a stay more or less long from the police office, must be discharged from the city by the police station.”

It was not until the 19th century that Jews were able to settle in Ravensburg again legally, and even then their numbers remained so small that a synagogue was not rebuilt. In 1858, only 3 Jews were counted in Ravensburg, and by 1895 that number had risen to 57. Between the turn of the century and 1933, the number of Jews living in Ravensburg steadily declined until the community counted more than 23 people.

In the early 1930s, seven major Jewish families lived in Ravensburg, including the Adler, Erlanger, Harburger, Herrmann, Landauer, Rose, and Sondermann families. After the National Socialists seized power, some of Ravensburg's Jews were forced to emigrate, while others were murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Before World War II, many public displays of hatred against the small Jewish community of Ravensburg and its surroundings took place.

As early as March 13, 1933, about three weeks before the Nazis nationwide boycott of all Jewish stores in Germany, SA guards posted themselves outside two of Ravensburg's five Jewish stores and tried to prevent potential buyers from enter, by affixing signs to one of the stores that read “Wohlwert closed until Aryanization”. The Wohlwert store will soon be “Aryanized” and will be the only Jewish store to survive the Nazi pogrom. The other owners of Ravensburg's four Jewish department stores, Knopf, Merkur, Landauer and Wallersteiner, were all forced to sell their goods to non-Jewish traders between 1935 and 1938. During this period, many Jews in Ravensburg were able to flee abroad before the worst of the National Socialist persecution begins. While at least eight of them died violently, it was reported that three Jewish citizens who lived in Ravensburg survived thanks to their “Aryan” spouses. Some of the Jews arrested in Ravensburg during Kristallnacht were forced to parade through the streets of Baden-Baden under the supervision of SS guards the following day and were later deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Horrible Nazi crimes against humanity were committed in Ravensburg. On January 1, 1934, the “law for the prevention of hereditary diseases” came into force in Nazi Germany, which meant that people with diagnosed illnesses such as dementia, schizophrenia, epilepsy, hereditary deafness and various other mental disorders, could be legally forcibly sterilized. At the municipal hospital in Ravensburg, today called the Heilig-Geist hospital, forced sterilizations were performed from April 1934. In 1936, sterilization was the most performed medical procedure in the municipal hospital.

In the pre-war years before Germany annexed Poland, the Escher-Wyss factory in Ravensburg, now run directly by Klaus Schwab's father, Eugen Schwab, remains Ravensburg's largest employer. Not only was the factory a major employer in the city, but Hitler's Nazi Party itself awarded the Escher-Wyss branch in Ravensburg the title of“national socialist model company” while Schwab is at its head. The Nazis were potentially courting the Swiss company for cooperation in the coming war, and their advances ended up being reciprocated.

Escher-Wyss Ravensburg and the war

Ravensburg was an anomaly in wartime Germany, as it was never targeted by Allied airstrikes. Due to the presence of the Red Cross and a rumor okay with various companies, including Escher-Wyss, the Allied forces publicly agreed not to target the southern German town. It was not classified as a significant military target throughout the war, and for this reason the town retained many of its original features. However, much darker things were brewing in Ravensburg as soon as the war began.

Eugen Schwab continued to manage the “National Socialist Model Company” for EscherWyss, and the Swiss company helped the Nazi Wermacht produce important weapons of war as well as simpler armaments. The Escher-Wyss company is a leader in the technology of large turbines for hydroelectric dams and power stations, but it also manufactures parts for German fighter planes. It was also intertwined with much more sinister schemes going on behind the scenes that, if carried out, could have changed the outcome of World War II.

Nazi officials in front of Ravensburg City Hall in 1938, Source: Haus der Stadtgeschichte  

Western military intelligence was already aware of Escher-Wyss' complicity and collaboration with the Nazis. The Western military intelligence services of the time have documents, in particular the Record Group 226 (RG 226), from data compiled by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which shows that Allied forces were aware of some of Escher-Wyss' business dealings with the Nazis.

In RG 226, there are three specific mentions of Escher-Wyss, including:

• Folder number 47178 which reads as follows: The Swiss company Escher-Wyss is working on a large order for Germany. Flamethrowers are shipped from Switzerland as Brennstoffbehaelter. Dated September 1944.
• The file number 41589 shows that the Swiss allow German exports to be stockpiled in their country, a supposedly neutral nation during World War II. The entry reads: Commercial relations between Empresa Nacional Calvo Sotelo (ENCASO), Escher Wyss, and Mineral Celbau Gesellschaft. 1 p. July 1944; see also L 42627 Report on the collaboration between the Spanish company Empresa Nacional Calvo Sotelo and the German company Rheinmetall Borsig, on German exports stored in Switzerland. 1 p. August 1944.
• The file number 72654 says: Bauxite from Hungary was once sent to Germany and Switzerland for refining. Then a government union built an aluminum factory in Dunaalmas, on the borders of Hungary. Electric power was supplied; Hungary contributed to the coal mines, and equipment was ordered from the Swiss company Escher-Wyss. Production begins in 1941. 2 pages. May 1944.

Yet Escher-Wyss is a leader in a growing field, the creation of new turbine technology. The company designed a 14 hp turbine for factory hydroelectric of strategic importance to Norsk Hydro at Vemork, near Rjukan in Norway. The Norsk Hydro plant, partly fueled by Escher Wyss, was the only Nazi-controlled industrial plant capable of producing heavy water, an essential ingredient in the manufacture of plutonium for the Nazi atomic bomb program. The Germans had put all possible resources behind the production of heavy water, but the Allied forces were aware of the technological advances of the increasingly desperate Nazis that could change the game.

In 1942 and 1943 the hydroelectric plant was the target of partially successful raids by the British Commando and the Norwegian Resistance, although heavy water production continued. Allied forces dropped more than 400 bombs on the factory, which barely affected the operations of this sprawling facility. In 1944, German ships attempted to bring heavy water back to Germany, but the Norwegian Resistance managed to sink the ship carrying the cargo. With the help of Escher-Wyss, the Nazis almost managed to turn the tide of the war and bring about an Axis victory.

Back at the Escher-Wyss factory in Ravensburg, Eugen Schwab set about employing forced laborers in his model Nazi enterprise. During the years of World War II, nearly 3 forced laborers worked in Ravensburg, notably at Escher Wyss. According to the city archivist of Ravensburg, Andrea Schmuder, the Escher-Wyss Machinery Plant in Ravensburg employed between 198 and 203 civilian workers and prisoners of war during the war. Karl Schweizer, a local historian from Lindau, says that Escher-Wyss maintained a small special camp for forced laborers on the factory site.

The use of masses of forced laborers in Ravensburg made it necessary to set up one of the largest Nazi forced labor camps recorded in the workshop of a former carpenter, Ziegelstraße 16. The camp in question at one time housed 125 French POWs who were then redistributed to other camps in 1942. The French workers were replaced by 150 Russian POWs who were rumored to be the worst off treaties of all prisoners of war. One of these prisoners was Zina Jakuschewa, whose card and workbook are held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. These documents identify her as a non-Jewish forced laborer assigned to Ravensburg, Germany, in 1943 and 1944.

Eugen Schwab dutifully maintained the status quo during the war years. After all, with young Klaus Martin Schwab born in 1938 and his brother Urs Reiner Schwab born a few years later, Eugen would have liked to keep his children safe from harm.

Klaus Martin Schwab – international mystery man

Born on March 30, 1938 in Ravensburg, Germany, Klaus Schwab is the eldest child of a normal nuclear family. Between 1945 and 1947, Klaus attended au primary school, in Germany. In an interview given to Irish Times in 2006, Klaus Schwab remembers that: “After the war, I chaired the regional Franco-German youth association. My heroes were Adenauer, De Gasperi and De Gaulle”.

Klaus Schwab and his younger brother, Urs Reiner Schwab, were both to follow in the footsteps of their grandfather, Gottfried, and their father, Eugen, and train as mechanical engineers. Klaus' father had told the young Schwab that if he wanted to make an impact on the world, he had to train as a machine engineer. This would only be the beginning of Schwab's college education.

Between 1949 and 1957, Klaus began studying his plethora of degrees at the Spohn-Gymnasium in Ravensburg, eventually graduating from the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Ravensburg. Between 1958 and 1962, Klaus started working in various engineering companies, and in 1962 Klaus completed his mechanical engineering studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich with an engineering degree. The following year he also attended a economics course at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. From 1963 to 1966, Klaus worked as assistant to the managing director of the German Mechanical Engineering Association (VDMA), Frankfurt.

In 1965, Klaus also prepared his doctorate at the ETH in Zurich, writing his thesis on: “Long-term export credit as a business problem in mechanical engineering”. Then, in 1966, he obtained his doctorate in engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). At this time, Klaus' father, Eugen Schwab, was swimming in larger circles than he had swum in before. After being a well-known figure in Ravensburg as general manager of the Escher-Wyss factory since before the war, Eugen would eventually be elected president of the Ravensburg Chamber of Commerce. In 1966, when the German committee for the Splügen railway tunnel was founded, Eugen Schwab sets the foundation of the German committee as a project “which creates a better and faster connection for the large circles of our increasingly converging Europe and thus offers new possibilities for cultural, economic and social development”.

In 1967, Klaus Schwab obtained a doctorate in economics from the University of Fribourg, in

Switzerland, as well as a master's degree in public administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, USA. While studying at Harvard, Klaus Schwab received the education of Henry Kissinger, whom he would later say was one of the three or four personalities who most influenced his thinking throughout his life.

Henry Kissinger and his former student, Klaus Schwab, greet former British Prime Minister Ted Heath at the WEF annual meeting in 1980. Source: World Economic Forum

In the Irish Times article from 2006 mentioned above, Klaus speaks of this period as being very important for the formation of his current ideological thought, declarer : “Years later, when I returned from the United States after my studies at Harvard, two events had a decisive effect on me. The first was a book by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, The American Challenge – which said that Europe would lose to the United States because of Europe's inferior management methods. The other event was – and this concerns Ireland – theEurope of the six became theEurope of the nine“. These two events helped make Klaus Schwab a man who wanted to change the way people worked.

In the same year, Urs Reiner Schwab, Klaus' younger brother, graduated as a mechanical engineer from ETH Zurich and Klaus Schwab joins his father's former company, Escher-Wyss, soon to become Sulzer Escher-Wyss AG, Zurich, as an assistant to the chairman to help reorganize the merged companies. This leads us to Klaus' nuclear connections.

The rise of a technocrat

Sulzer, a Swiss company whose origins date back to 1834, rose to prominence after it began building compressors in 1906. In 1914, the family business became part of “three stock companies“, one of which is the official holding company. In the 1930s, Sulzer's profits suffered from the Great Depression and, like many companies at the time, faced disruptions and industrial actions from their workers.

World War II may not have affected Switzerland as much as its neighbors, but the ensuing economic boom allowed Sulzer to increase its power and market dominance. In 1966, just before Klaus Schwab joined Escher-Wyss, the Swiss turbine manufacturers signed a cooperation agreement with the Sulzer brothers in Winterthur. Sulzer and Escher-Wyss began to merge in 1966, when Sulzer purchased 53% of the company's shares. Escher-Wyss officially became Sulzer Escher-Wyss AG in 1969, when the last shares were acquired by the Sulzer brothers.

Once the merger began, Escher-Wyss began to be restructured and two of the members of the board of directors are the first to see their service at Escher-Wyss terminated. Dr. H. Schindler and W. Stoffel resign from the board now headed by Georg Sulzer and Alfred Schaffner. Dr. Schindler was a member of the board of Escher-Wyss for 28 years and worked alongside Eugen Schwab for most of his tenure. Peter Schmidheiny would later take over as chairman of the Escher-Wyss board, continuing the Schmidheiny family's dominance over the company's executives.

During the restructuring process, it was decided that Escher-Wyss and Sulzer would focus on separate areas of machine building. The Escher-Wyss plants would mainly work on the construction of hydropower plants, including turbines, storage pumps, reversing machines, shut-off devices and pipelines, as well as steam turbines, turbochargers, evaporation systems, centrifuges and machinery for the paper and pulp industry. Sulzer focuses on the refrigeration industry as well as the construction of steam boilers and gas turbines.

The 1er January 1968, the newly reorganized Sulzer Escher-Wyss AG is presented publicly and the company is streamlined, a move deemed necessary due to several major acquisitions. She has in particular worked closely with Brown Boveri, a group of Swiss electrical engineering companies that had also worked for the Nazis, supplying the Germans with some of the submarine technology used in World War II. Brown Boveri is also described as a “defence-related electrical contractor” and will find the conditions of the Cold War arms race beneficial to her business.

The merger and reorganization of these Swiss mechanical engineering giants has seen their collaboration pay off in unique ways. During the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, Sulzer and Escher-Wyss used 8 refrigeration compressors to create tons of artificial ice. In 1969, the two companies have joined forces to participate in the construction of a new passenger ship called “Hamburg”, the first ship in the world to be fully air-conditioned thanks to the Sulzer Escher-Wyss combination.

In 1967, Klaus Schwab officially burst onto the Swiss business scene and spearheaded the merger between Sulzer and Escher-Wyss, while forming profitable alliances with Brown Boveri and others. In December 1968, Klaus spoke at an event in Zurich before the main Swiss machine engineering organizations: the Employers' Association of Swiss Machine and Metal Manufacturers and the Association of Swiss Machine Manufacturers.

In his speech, he correctly predicts the importance of the integration of informatics in the engineering of modern Swiss machines, in declarer than :

“In 1971, products that aren't even on the market today are likely to account for up to a quarter of sales. This forces companies to systematically research possible developments and identify gaps in the market. Today, 18 of the 20 largest companies in our machinery industry have planning departments that are responsible for these tasks. Of course, everyone must use the latest technological advances, and the computer is one of them. The many small and medium-sized companies in our machinery industry take the path of cooperation or use the services of specialized data processing providers. »

According to Schwab, computers and data were clearly seen as important for the future, which resulted in the reorganization of Sulzer Escher-Wyss when they merged. Sulzer's modern website reflects this notable shift in focus, stating that in 1968: “Materials technology activities are intensified [by Sulzer] and form the basis of medical technology products. The fundamental shift from a machine building company to a technology company is beginning to become apparent”.

Klaus Schwab has helped transform Sulzer Escher-Wyss into something more than just a machine-building giant, he has transformed it into a technology company that is moving at high speed towards a high-tech future. It should also be noted that Sulzer Escher-Wyss has changed another aspect of its business to help them "form the base of medical technology products", an area that had not previously been mentioned as a target industry for Sulzer and/or or Escher-Wyss.

But technological progress is not the only improvement that Klaus Schwab wants to introduce at Sulzer Escher-Wyss, he also wants to change the way the company views its management style. Schwab and his close collaborators were pushing a business philosophy entirely new that would allow “all employees to accept the imperatives of motivation and ensure a sense of flexibility and maneuverability in them”.

It is here, in the late 1960s, that we see Klaus begin to emerge as a more public figure. At that time, the Sulzer Escher-Wyss company was more interested than ever in the press. In January 1969, the Swiss giants set up a public consultation session entitled “Machinery Industry Press Day”, which mainly concerned questions about the management of the company. During this event, Schwab states that companies that use authoritarian management styles are “unable to fully activate the "human capital"“, an argument he will use to many times at the end of the 1960 years.

Plutonium and Pretoria

Escher-Wyss pioneered some of the most important technologies in power generation. As the US Department of Energy points out in his document on the development of the supercritical CO2 (CBC) Brayton cycle, a device used in hydroelectric and nuclear power plants, “Escher-Wyss was the first known company to develop the turbomachinery for CBC systems as early as 1939″. Escher-Wyss was the first company known to have developed the turbomachinery for CBC systems starting in 1939. She adds that 24 systems have been built, “Escher-Wyss having designed the energy conversion cycles and built the turbomachinery for all but three of the systems”. In 1966, just before Schwab's entry into Escher-Wyss and the start of the merger with Sulzer, EscherWyss' helium compressor was designed for the La Fleur company and continued the evolution of the Brayton cycle development. This technology was still important to the arms industry in 1986, with nuclear-powered drones equipped with a helium-cooled Brayton cycle nuclear reactor.

Escher-Wyss has been involved in the manufacture and installation of nuclear technology at least as early as 1962, as shown in this pattern for a “heat exchange device for a nuclear power plant” and this pattern of 1966 for a “gas turbine power plant for nuclear reactor with emergency cooling”. After Schwab left Sulzer Escher-Wyss, Sulzer also helped develop turbochargers for the enrichment of uranium in order to produce fuel for reactors.

When Klaus Schwab joined Sulzer Escher-Wyss in 1967 and began reorganizing the company into a technology company, Sulzer Escher-Wyss' involvement in the darker aspects of the global nuclear arms race immediately became more pronounced. Before Klaus became involved, Escher-Wyss had often focused on helping to design and build parts for civilian uses of nuclear technology, for example nuclear power generation. Yet with the arrival of the enthusiastic Mr. Schwab, the company also participated in the illegal proliferation of nuclear weapons technology. In 1969, the incorporation of Escher Wyss into Sulzer was fully completed and the company was renamed Sulzer AG, dropping the historical Escher-Wyss name.

It was finally revealed, through an examination and report by Swiss authorities and a man named Peter Hug, that Sulzer Escher-Wyss began secretly sourcing and building key parts for nuclear weapons over the years. 1960. The company, while Schwab served on the board, also began to play a vital role in developing South Africa's illegal nuclear weapons program during the darkest years of the apartheid regime . Klaus Schwab was a leading figure in founding a corporate culture that helped Pretoria build six nuclear weapons and partially assemble a seventh.

In his report, Peter Hug explains how Sulzer Escher Wyss AG (named Sulzer AG after the merger) supplied vital components to the South African government and provides evidence of Germany's role in supporting the racist regime. It also reveals that the Swiss government “was aware of the illegal agreements but 'silently tolerated' them, while actively supporting some of them or only half-criticizing them”. Hug's report was eventually finalized in a book titled: “Switzerland and South Africa 1948-1994 – Final Report of NFP 42+ Mandated by the Swiss Federal Council”, compiled and written by Georg Kreis and published in 2007 .

In 1967, South Africa had built a reactor as part of a plutonium production plan, the SAFARI-2 located at Pelindaba. SAFARI-2 was part of a project to develop a heavy water moderated reactor that would be fueled by natural uranium and cooled with sodium. This connection to the development of heavy water for the creation of uranium, the same technology that had been used by the Nazis also with the help of Escher-Wyss, may explain why the South Africans initially involved EscherWyss. But in 1969, South Africa abandoned the heavy water reactor project at Pelindaba, as it drained resources from their uranium enrichment program which began in 1967.

A South African nuclear bomb in storage.

In 1970, Escher-Wyss was definitely very involved in nuclear technology, as a document available in Landesarchivs Baden-Württemberg. This document outlines the details of a public procurement procedure and contains information on award talks with specific companies involved in the acquisition of nuclear technologies and materials. The companies cited include: NUKEM; Uhde; Krantz; Preussag; Escher-Wyss; Siemens; Rhein Valley; Leybold; Lurgi; and the infamous Transnuklear.

The Swiss and South Africans maintained close relations during this period of history, when it was not easy for the brutal South African regime to find close allies. On November 4, 1977, the United Nations Security Council adopted the 418 resolution which imposed a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa which would not be fully lifted until 1994.

Georg Kreis pointed out the following in his detailed assessment of the Hug Report:

“The fact that the authorities adopted a laissez-faire attitude even after May 1978 appears in an exchange of letters between the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the DFMA in October/December 1978. As Hug's study explains, the Switzerland's anti-apartheid movement relied on German reports that Sulzer Escher-Wyss and a company called the BBC had supplied parts for the South African uranium enrichment plant, and repeated credits to ESCOM , which also included considerable contributions from Swiss banks. These claims have led to the question whether the Federal Council, given its fundamental support for the UN embargo, should not encourage the National Bank to no longer authorize loans for ESCOM in the future. »

Swiss banks were to help finance the South African nuclear arms race and, in 1986, Sulzer Escher-Wyss successfully produced special compressors for uranium enrichment.

The founding of the World Economic Forum

In 1970, young upstart Klaus Schwab wrote to the European Commission asking for help in setting up a “non-commercial think tank for European entrepreneurs”. The European Commission sponsors the event and sends French politician Raymond Barre as the forum's “intellectual mentor”. Raymond Barre, who at the time was European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, later became French Prime Minister and was accused to make anti-Semitic remarks during his term of office.

In 1970, Schwab therefore left Escher Wyss to organize a two-week conference on business management. In 1971, the first meeting of the World Economic Forum – then called the “European Management Symposium” – was held in Davos, Switzerland. About 450 participants from 31 countries were going to take part in the first European symposium on management organized by Schwab, composed mainly of leaders of various European companies, politicians and American academics. The project was recorded as being organized by Klaus Schwab and his secretary Hilde Stoll who later the same year would become the wife by Klaus Schwab.

Klaus' European symposium was not an original idea. Like the declared Ganga writer Jey Aratnam quite consistently in 2018:

“The Spirit of Davos” by Klaus Schwab was also “the Spirit of Harvard”. The business school was not the only one to have defended the idea of ​​a symposium. The eminent Harvard economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, had championed the affluent society as well as the planning needs of capitalism and the rapprochement between East and West. »

It is also true that, as Aratnam pointed out, this was not the first time that Davos hosted such events. Between 1928 and 1931, the Davos University Conferences were held at the Belvedere Hotel, events that were co-founded by Albert Einstein and only interrupted by the Great Depression and the threat of impending war.

The Club of Rome and the WEF

The most influential group behind the creation of Klaus Schwab's symposium is the Club of Rome, an influential think tank of the scientific and wealthy elite that mirrors the World Economic Forum in many ways, including its promotion of a model of global governance led by a technocratic elite. The Club was founded in 1968 by Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei and Scottish chemist Alexander King during a private meeting at a residence owned by the Rockefeller family in Bellagio, Italy.

Among his early accomplishments was a book published in 1972 called “The Limits to Growth,” which focused on global overpopulation and warned that “if the world's consumption patterns and population growth continue unabated high that at the time the earth would reach its limits in a century.” During la third meeting of the World Economic Forum in 1973, Peccei delivered a speech summarizing the book, which the World Economic Forum website recalls as the highlight of this historic meeting. The same year, the Club of Rome published a report detailing an “adaptive” model of global governance that would divide the world into ten interconnected economic/political regions.

The Club of Rome has long been controversial for its obsession with reducing the world's population and many of its earlier policies, which critics described as influenced by eugenics and neo-Malthusianism. However, in the Club's infamous book, The First Global Revolution, published in 1991, it was argued that such policies could gain popular support if the masses were able to associate them with an existential struggle against a common enemy.

For this purpose, The First Global Revolution contains a passage titled “The Common Enemy of Mankind is Man,” which states the following:

“In looking for a common enemy against which we can unite, we had the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would do the trick. Taken together and their interactions, these phenomena indeed constitute a common threat that must be tackled by all together. But by pointing to these dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, of which we have already warned our readers, of confusing symptoms with causes. All these dangers are due to human intervention in natural processes, and it is only by changing attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy is therefore humanity itself. »

In the years that followed, the elite that populates the Club of Rome and the World Economic Forum frequently supported that population control methods are essential to protect the environment. It's no surprise, then, that the World Economic Forum is using climate and environmental issues alike to argue the need for otherwise unpopular policies, such as the Great Reset.

The past is a prologue

Since the founding of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab has become one of the most powerful people in the world and his Great Reset has made scrutiny of the man sitting on the globalist throne more important than ever.

Given the leading role he played in the sweeping effort to transform every aspect of the existing order, Klaus Schwab's story has been hard to research. When you begin to dig into the history of a man like Schwab, who rubs shoulders with other members of the shadowy elite, you quickly discover that a great deal of information has been hidden or suppressed. Klaus is someone who wants to stay hidden in the dark corners of society and only allows the average person to see a well-presented build of his chosen character.

Is the real Klaus Schwab a benevolent old uncle figure wishing to do good for humanity, or is he really the son of a Nazi collaborator who used forced labor and helped the Nazis get the first bomb atomic? Is Klaus the honest business leader we should trust to create a fairer society and workplace for ordinary people, or is he the person who helped push Sulzer Escher-Wyss into a technological revolution that led him to play a role in the illegal creation of nuclear weapons for the racist apartheid regime of South Africa? The evidence I have reviewed does not suggest he is a benevolent man, but rather a member of a wealthy, well-connected family who has a history of helping create weapons of destruction. mass for aggressive and racist governments.

As Klaus Schwab said in 2006, “knowledge will soon be available everywhere – I call this the 'Googling' of globalization. What matters is not what you know, but how you use it. You have to be on the cutting edge.” Klaus Schwab considers himself a pace setter and a top player, and it has to be said that his qualifications and experience are impressive. Yet when it comes to practicing what we preach, Klaus was unmasked. One of the three biggest challenges on the World Economic Forum's list of priorities is the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Yet neither Klaus Schwab nor his father Eugen followed these same principles when they were in business. Quite the contrary.

In January, Klaus Schwab announced that 2021 is the year the World Economic Forum and its allies must “rebuild trust” with the masses. However, if Schwab continues to hide his story and that of his father's ties to the "National Socialist model society" that was Escher-Wyss in the 1930s and 1940s, people will have good reason to be suspicious of the motives behind underlying its big reset agenda, which goes too far and is undemocratic.

In the Schwabs' case, the evidence doesn't just show bad business practices or some kind of misunderstanding. The Schwab family history instead reveals a habit of working with genocidal dictators for the fundamental motives of profit and power. The Nazis and the South African apartheid regime are two of the worst examples of leadership in modern politics, but the Schwabs clearly couldn't or didn't want to realize that at the time.

In the case of Klaus Schwab himself, it appears he helped launder relics of the Nazi era, i.e. his nuclear ambitions and his population control ambitions, in order to ensure the continuity of a deeper agenda. While in a senior position at Sulzer Escher Wyss, the company sought to support the nuclear ambitions of the South African regime, then the government closest to the Nazis in the world, thus preserving the country's own legacy. era of Escher Wyss. Then, through the World Economic Forum, Schwab helped rehabilitate eugenics-influenced population control policies in the post-World War II period, a time when revelations about atrocities committed by the Nazis quickly brought great discredit to this pseudo-science. Is there any reason to believe that Klaus Schwab, as he exists today, has changed in any way? Or is he still the public face of a decades-long effort to ensure the survival of a very old program?

The last question to ask about the real motivations of Herr Schwab's actions is perhaps the most important for the future of humanity:

Is Klaus Schwab trying to create the Fourth Industrial Revolution or the Fourth Reich?