The Bilderberg Group was created in 1952, but it took its name in 1954 from the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland, where the first meeting took place in May 29th. From then on, the meetings have been holding once or twice a year. At the beginning, all the conferences were held only in European countries, but from the beginning of the 1960s also in North America. Among the founding members, at least two leading figures need to be mentioned: H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (a former SS officer), who served as chairman of the Group until the "Lockheed" scandal forced him to resign from the presidency in 1976, and Joseph Retinger, a Polish "businessman" who was able to create contacts with many high-ranking military officials and political leaders throughout the world. Retinger is known as the ‘investigator’ of the Group. His main idea was to create a united Europe in order to unite the world in peace, where powerful supranational organizations, applying their own ideologies, would guarantee more stability than the single national governments. From the time the first Bilderberg conference was held, important leaders of United States and Western Europe have been invited (bankers, politicians, academics, international officials), for a total of about a hundred people (Alcide De Gasperi seems to have participated too). When the Group first was established, the officially declared objective was to create the Western unity against the Soviet expansion.

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Last Bilderberg conference in Stresa (Italy), list of participants, Bilderberg in Stresa