The Christmas Conference
GA 260
Part III. Conclusions and Appendices
List of Names
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
ABELS, JOAN
(b. India – d.1962 Heidenheim a. d. Brenz)
Eurythmist. Took part in the very first performance of eurythmy in
1913 in Munich, subsequently continuing the work in Dornach. After
retiring from eurythmy, he took on the office work at the
Canteen.
AEPPLI, WILLI
(Accra 1894–1972 Basel)
Swiss teacher. Member of the Society from 1921. At the Christmas
Foundation Conference he was the representative of the Swiss
Anthroposophical Society. From 1927 to 1954 he taught at the Rudolf
Steiner School in Basel, and in 1954 became an adviser to the
Association of Waldorf Schools in Germany. Wrote books on
education.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
See
Note 77.
BEMMELEN, DANIEL J. VAN
(Indonesia 1899–1983)
Dutch member from 1921. In 1923 co-founder and teacher at the first
Dutch Waldorf school, ‘De Vrije School’ at The
Hague.
BESANT, ANNIE
See
Note 39.
BRANDTNER, W.
Secretary to the Anthroposophical. Society in Porto Alegre, Brazil,
founded in 1920.
BÜCHENBACHER, DR HANS
(Fürth 1887–1977 Arlesheim)
Lectured on the threefold social order. At the Christmas Foundation
Conference he was the representative of the Free Anthroposophical
Society in Germany. 1931-1935 President of the Anthroposophical
Society in Germany. Later leader of the Working Group for Philosophy
and Psychology at the Goetheanum in Dornach.
BÜRGI-BANDI, LUCIE
(Bern 1875–1949 Bern)
Member from 1907. On the Council of the Johannes branch in Bern.
1913-1925 on the Council of the Bauverein. In March 1925 appointed
by Rudolf Steiner to join the administration group for the building of
the Goetheanum. Founder member of the
Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung.
CARNEGIE, ANDREW
See
Note 61.
CESARO, DUKE GIOVANNI ANTONIO OF
(Rome 1878–1940 Rome)
Son of Baroness de Renzis
(see below).
Member of various town
councils in Sicily (Radical Party, later Social Democratic Party).
Member of Parliament. 1922-24 Minister for Post and Telegraphy.
Co-publisher of Lo Spettatore.
Political writings. In 1926 he joined the
anti-fascist National Alliance. At the Christmas Foundation
Conference he was the representative of the Novalis group in
Rome.
COLLISON, HARRY
(London 1868–1945 London)
Lawyer, painter and writer. Member from 1910. Leader of the Myrdhin
group in London. Authorized by Rudolf Steiner to translate his works
into English. Founder of the Anthroposophical Publishing Company.
From 1923 General Secretary of the English Anthroposophical
Society.
CROSS, MARGARET FRANCES
(Preston 1866–1962 Hemel Hempstead)
Owner and head of a private school, interested in Rudolf Steiner's
work. The school subsequently became The New School, Kings Langley,
Hertfordshire.
DONNER, UNO
(Helsingfors 1872–1958 Arlesheim)
Engineer. Founded and ran textile factories, among others. Met
Anthroposophy in London in 1913. 1923-1932, at Rudolf Steiner's
suggestion, General Secretary of the Finnish Anthroposophical
Society. Participated in the agricultural course given by Rudolf
Steiner at Koberwitz, Breslau in 1924. From 1928 he endeavoured to
run a large farm on bio-dynamic lines. A bequest in his will led to
the founding of the Donner Institute for Religious History and
Cultural Research at the University of Abo in Finland.
DRECHSLER, LUNA
(b. Lemberg/Lvov – d.1933 Poland, in her fifties)
Painter and sculptress. Active in political life (town council).
Worked on the first Goetheanum. Initiated the founding of the Polish
Anthroposophical Society and became its General Secretary.
DUNLOP, DANIEL NICOL
(Kilmarnock 1868–1935 London)
Initially a member of the Theosophical Society. From 1918 a member of
the Anthroposophical Society in England and leader of the Human
Freedom group. Organiser of the summer schools in Penmaenmawr (1923)
and Torquay (1924). Founder of the British Weleda Company. 1930-1935
General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in England.
DÜRLER, EDGAR
(St Gallen 1895–1970 Arlesheim)
Businessman. Member of the Society from 1921. Worked for Futurum AG,
Dornach, part of the time on the board of directors. Later member of
the board of directors of Ilag AG, then Weleda AG, Arlesheim. Then
for many years chairman of the board of directors.
EISELT, DR HANS
(b. Prague – d.1936 Prague)
Having met Anthroposophy early in life, he worked for it until his
death. He was leader of the branch in Prague and also lectured and
ran the administration of the national Anthroposophical Society. He
took the shorthand notes when Rudolf Steiner lectured in Prague. At
the Christmas Foundation Conference he was the representative of the
council of the Society in Czechoslovakia.
ERZBERGER, MATTHIAS
See
Note 5.
FERRERI, CHARLOTTE
(d.1924 in Milan)
Born in Honolulu as the daughter of an American missionary. Leader of
the Leonardo da Vinci group in Milan. This group had resigned as a
body from the Theosophical Society in 1913 and then joined the
Anthroposophical Society. Later she was co-founder of a group in
Honolulu. At the Christmas Foundation Conference she represented
Honolulu.
FREUND, IDA
(d.1931 in Prague)
An active member from 1909/10 in Prague. Her public charitable work
was honoured after her death by the establishment of an Ida Freund
Foundation.
GEERING-CHRIST, RUDOLF
(Basel 1871–1958)
Bookseller and publisher. Founder member of the German Section in
1902 and of the Paracelsus branch in Basel in 1906, of which he
became the chairman in 1921. 1922/23 he was a member of the inner
working group at the Goetheanum. From 1913-1925 he was a member of
the council of the Bauverein
and in March 1925 he was appointed by Rudolf Steiner to join the
administration group for the building of the Goetheanum.
GEUTER, FRIEDRICH
(Darmstadt 1894–1960 Ravenswood)
Met Anthroposophy through Herbert Hahn when both were working as
interpreters at a prisoner of war camp for British and French
prisoners. After a spell at
Der Kommende Tag,
he began his lifetime's curative work at the
Sonnenhof under Ita Wegman. From 1929 onwards he lived and worked in
England, founding two homes for mentally handicapped children.
GEYER, REVEREND JOHANNES
(Hamburg 1882– 1964 Stuttgart)
Heard Rudolf Steiner lecture for the first time when he was a
student. Member from 1910. From 1912 pastor of the Protestant church.
From 1919, at Rudolf Steiner's suggestion, a teacher at the Waldorf
School in Stuttgart.
GLEICH, GENERAL GEROLD VON
See
Note 8.
GNÄDIGER, FRANZ
(d.1971)
Priest of the Christian Community. For a time secretary to Friedrich
Rittelmeyer. At the time of the Christmas Foundation Meeting he lived
in Zurich, from 1934 in Bern.
GOYERT, WILHELM RUDOLF
(Witten a. d. Ruhr 1887–1954 Arlesheim)
Art dealer. Co-founder of the first Waldorf school in Cologne, named
‘Neuwacht School’ by Rudolf Steiner.
GROSHEINTZ, DR. MED. DENT. EMIL
(Paris 1867–1946 Dornach)
Member from 1906 and co-founder of the Paracelsus branch in Basel.
From 1908 to 1913 he was a member of the council of the German
Section. In 1912 he placed a parcel of land he owned in Dornach at
the disposal of Rudolf Steiner for the Goetheanum. From 1913 to 1915
he was deputy chairman of the
Bauverein,
from 1915 to 1924 chairman,
and 1924/25 deputy chairman when Rudolf Steiner was chairman. In
March 1925 Rudolf Steiner appointed him chairman of the
administration group for the building of the Goetheanum. In 1920 he
was founder-member and president of the branch at the Goetheanum,
which he remained until 1946. 1922/23 he was a member of the inner
working group at the Goetheanum.
GROSHEINTZ, DR OSKAR
(d. 1944 in Basel)
Member from 1907 and chairman of the Johannes branch founded in Bern
on his initiative. Took part in the performance of the Mystery Dramas
in Munich.
GYSI, PROFESSOR DR MED H. C. ALFRED
(Aarau 1864–1957 Zurich)
Eminent researcher in the field of dentistry who did pioneering work
on dental prosthetics. Lecturer and professor at the dental institute
of the University of Zurich, of which he was a co-founder. In 1902 he
was one of the three Swiss founder members of the German Section and
chairman of the Zschokke branch in Zurich which he founded in 1908
and to which he gave house room until 1920. ‘To his manner of
working we owe the fact that Dr Steiner's most important Zurich
lectures were scientific in character.’ (Marie Steiner,
Erinnerungen I (Memoires, I).
In 1913, together with Dr Emil Grosheintz, Frau Marie Schief and
Frau Marie Hirter-Weber, he was one of the four Swiss members to make
the land on the Dornach hill available for the building of the
Goetheanum. He was a member of the council of the
Bauverein
till 1920. At the beginning of the twenties Professor Gysi withdrew
from the Anthroposophical Society.
HAAN, PIETER DE
(Utrecht 1891–1968 Holland)
Member from 1912. Having been the intended General Secretary for
Holland, he withdrew in favour of Zeylmans van Emmichoven when the
latter was suggested by Rudolf Steiner. From 1964-66 manager of the
Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag
in Dornach.
HAHL, ERWIN
(d.1958)
A native of Württemberg. Heard Rudolf Steiner lecture for the
first time in 1919 in Stuttgart. From 1922 he worked in Yugoslavia,
where he endeavoured to found a branch in Zagreb. At the Christmas
Foundation Conference he was the representative of the work in
Yugoslavia.
HARDT, DR MED HEINRICH
(Stargard 1896– 1981)
Met Anthroposophy in Rostock, where he was a student. Co-initiator of
the lectures Rudolf Steiner gave for young doctors in January and at
Easter 1924 in Dornach. Later he was for many years the doctor at the
Lauenstein home for the handicapped.
HART-NIBBRIG, FRAU J
(b. Holland–1957 Dornach in her late eighties)
Was a member of the Theosophical Society before 1913. From about 1924
she lived in Dornach. She was close to Marie Steiner.
HARTMANN, EDUARD VON
See
Note 53.
HENSTRÖM, SIGRID
Member from 1911. From 1924 chairman of the branch in Stockholm. At
the Christmas Foundation Meeting she was the representative of the
Swedish Society.
HEROSTRATOS
See
Note 76.
HOHLENBERG, JOHANNES
(1881–1960 Kopenhagen)
Painter and writer. From 1923 General Secretary of the Danish
Anthroposophical Society. From 1926 he was the joint publisher and
from 1929 the publisher of the Scandinavian anthroposophical journal
Vidar till it was closed
down in 1940. From 1947 to 1954 he published the cultural and
political journal Øjeblikket in Denmark.
HUGENTOBLER, DR JAKOB
(d.1961)
Teacher. A member of the council of the Zschokke (later Paracelsus)
group in Zurich and then of the Johannes branch in Bern.
HUSEMANN, GOTTFRIED
(b.1900–1972 Arlesheim)
Co-founder and priest of the Christian Community.
IM OBERSTEG, DR ARMIN
(b.1881–1969 Basel)
Eminent lawyer. Member from 1919. A helpful supporter of the
Goetheanum. For many years president of the cafe and restaurant
co-operative at the Goetheanum and legal adviser to Weleda AG.
INGERÖ, KARL
(d.1972 in Oslo)
At the Christmas Foundation Conference he was the representative of
the Norwegian Anthroposophical Society. Rudolf Steiner and Marie
Steiner were guests in his house on several occasions.
JONG, PROFESSOR DE
See
Note 64.
KAISER, DR WILHELM
(Pery 1895–1983 Dornach)
Astronomer. Met Rudolf Steiner in 1918. Worked with Dr Elisabeth
Vreede in the Goetheanum archives for a while. Lectured extensively
in Germany and Switzerland. Wrote many books.
KAUFMANN (LATER ADAMS), DR GEORGE
(Maryampol 1894–1963 Birmingham)
Mathematician and physicist. Member from 1916. Acted as consecutive
interpreter for English-speaking audiences for 110 lectures,
conferences and conversations by and with Rudolf Steiner in England
and Dornach. Translated several of Rudolf Steiner's works and wrote
numerous books.
KELLER, KARL
(Basel 1896–1979 Arlesheim)
Journalist and editor in Basel. Heard Rudolf Steiner lecturing for
the first time in 1917. As a member of the staff of the Swiss news
agency he was able to publicise an essay written by Rudolf Steiner in
the autumn of 1924 on the rebuilding of the Goetheanum.
KELLERMÜLLER, JAKOB
(Räterschen 1872–1947 Dornach)
Engaged by Rudolf Steiner as doorkeeper for the first Goetheanum, he
performed this task until 1946.
KOLISKO, DR MED EUGEN
(Vienna 1893–1939 London)
Member from 1914. From 1920 teacher and school doctor at the Waldorf
School in Stuttgart. From 1923 to 1935 on the council of the German
Anthroposophical Society. Then lived in England.
KOLISKO, LILLY
(Vienna 1889–1976 Gloucester)
Collaborated with Rudolf Steiner at the biological research institute
in Stuttgart, publishing works on the spleen and on microorganisms in
1922 and 1923.
KOSCHÜTZKY, RUDOLF VON
(Upper Silesia 1866–1954 Stuttgart)
Member from about 1917. He was originally a farmer but worked as a
war correspondent in the First World War. From 1922 priest of the
Christian Community. He participated in bringing about the
agricultural course and then became a member of the management of the
resulting research group of anthroposophical farmers.
KREBS, CHRISTIAN
(d.1945)
A member in Sweden. Participated in the agricultural course given by
Rudolf Steiner at Koberwitz, Breslau, in 1924.
KRKAVEC, DR OTOKAR
Member in Prague. At the Christmas Foundation Conference he was the
representative of the council of the Society in Czechoslovakia.
KRÜGER, DR BRUNO
(b.1887–1979 Stuttgart)
Public prosecutor in Berlin. From 1921 he worked with the federation
for the threefold social order in Stuttgart, lecturing on this
subject. After the failure of the threefold project he worked as a
lawyer in Stuttgart.
LEADBEATER, CHARLES WEBSTER
See
Note 40.
LEER, EMANUEL JOSEF VON
(b. in Amersfoort – 1934 Baku)
Dutch wholesale merchant. Member from 1909. Giver of strong financial
backing to the various institutions. 1922/23 president of the
management committee of the International Laboratories and the
Clinical and Therapeutic Institute AG in Arlesheim. In 1924 the first
president of the first management committee of the Weleda AG,
Arlesheim.
LEHRS, DR ERNST
(Berlin 1894–1979 Eckwälden)
Scientist. Member of the Society from 1921. Teacher at the Waldorf
School in Stuttgart. From 1923 a member of the committee of the Free
Anthroposophical Society confirmed by Rudolf Steiner after the
Christmas Foundation Conference, and thus an officer of the General
Anthroposophical Society. Published scientific writings. From 1952 he
taught at the seminar for curative education at Eckwälden.
LEINHAS, EMIL
(Mannheim 1878–1967 Ascona)
Merchant. Member from 1909. In March 1920 co-founder, later managing
director and finally liquidator of Der Kommende Tag AG in Stuttgart.
From 1921 to 1923 in the central Vorstand of the Anthroposophical
Society, from February 1923 a member of the council of the German
Society in Stuttgart. Member of the
Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung
from 1949.
Aus der Arbeit mit Rudolf Steiner. Sachliches und Persönliches
(Working with Rudolf Steiner), Basel 1950.
LEISEGANG, HANS
See
Note 36.
LJUNGQUIST, ANNA
(d.1935 in Dornach)
One of the early pioneers of anthroposophical work in Sweden. At the
Christmas Foundation Conference she was the representative of the
Swedish Anthroposophical Society.
MACKENZIE, PROFESSOR MILLICENT
Professor of education at University College, Cardiff, Wales from
1910. At her instigation, Rudolf Steiner gave a course of lectures
for English teachers at the Goetheanum at Christmas 1920 and he was
also invited to lecture at educational conferences in
Stratford-on-Avon (Spring 1922) and in Oxford (August 1922). These
public lectures in England led to the founding of the Educational
Union under the chairmanship of Professor Mackenzie, the purpose of
which was to gain an entry for Rudolf Steiner's educational ideas
particularly in English and American organizations.
MAIER, DR RUDOLF
(Schorndorf 1886–1943 Hüningen)
Member from about 1908/09. From 1920 to 1924 leader of the scientific
research institute of
Der Kommende Tag AG
in Stuttgart.
MARYON, LOUISE EDITH
(London 1872–1924 Dornach)
Sculptress working in Dornach from 1914. Collaborated with Rudolf
Steiner in the field of the sculptural arts, especially on the wooden
sculpture
‘The Representative of Man between Lucifer and Ahriman’.
On her initiative the coloured eurythmy figures came
into being and also the three ‘eurythmy houses’ to
provide living accommodation for those working at the Goetheanum. At
the Christmas Foundation Conference she was chosen to be the Leader
of the Section for the Sculptural Arts.
MAURER, PROFESSOR DR THEODOR
(Dorlisheim 1873–1959 Strasbourg)
Writer and anthroposophical lecturer. At the Christmas Foundation
Conference he was the representative for the Alsace.
MAYEN, DR MED WALTHER
He came from Breslau. Worked in connection with Anthroposophy in
South America, including Porto Alegre in Brazil.
MERRY, ELEANOR
(Durham 1873–1956 Frinton-on-Sea)
English writer and painter. Member from 1921. Together with D. N.
Dunlop she organized the summer schools at Penmaenmawr (1923) and
Torquay (1924).
MONGES, HENRY B.
(1870–1954 New York)
Professor of architecture. Member from 1916. Participated actively in
founding, shaping and maintaining the Anthroposophical Society in
America. He was its first chairman, and from 1923 its General
Secretary. He secured the publication rights for Rudolf Steiner in
the USA, translated his works and founded a publishing company.
MORGENSTIERNE, ETHEL
MÜCKE, JOHANNA
(Berlin 1864–1949 Dornach)
Belonged to the socialist trade union movement and was a member of
the management of the workers' educational establishment where she
met Rudolf Steiner during his time as a teacher there (1899-1904).
Member from 1903. From 1908 until her retirement (1935) she was the
business manager, first in Berlin and from 1924 in Dornach, of the
Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag
founded in 1908 by Marie Steiner for the publication of
Rudolf Steiner's work. From the end of 1911 until 1913 she was on the
council of the German Section and from 1921 to 1923 on the council of
the German Anthroposophical Society. Her book
Erinnerungen an Rudolf Steiner und seine
Wirksamkeit an der Arbeiter-Bildungsschule in Berlin 1899-1904
(Memories of Rudolf Steiner and his work at the Workers' Educational
Establishment in Berlin 1899-1904) was published in Basel in
1955.
MUNTZ-TAXEIRA DEL MATTOS, FRAU
(b. Holland – d. 1931 in Brussels)
At the Christmas Foundation Conference she was the representative of
the Belgian Anthroposophical Society as its General Secretary.
Translated works by Rudolf Steiner into French.
NEUSCHELLER-VAN DER PALS, LUCY
(St Petersburg 1886–1962 Dornach)
Together with her husband she first heard Rudolf Steiner speak in
1908 in Berlin. Both thereupon became members. Later she took up
eurythmy. With her husband she went to America in 1913 and there
built up the eurythmy work and participated in the founding of the
Rudolf Steiner School in New York. She moved to Dornach in 1959.
PALMER, DR MED OTTO
(Feinsheim 1867–1945 Wiesneck)
Member from 1908 at which time he was a practising doctor in Hamburg.
In 1921 at the request of Rudolf Steiner he took on the management of the
Klinisch-Therapeutisches Institut
in Stuttgart. From 1923 onwards a member of the
council of the German Anthroposophical Society.
PEIPERS, DR MED FELIX
(Bonn 1873–1944 Arlesheim)
Member from 1904. In 1906/7 established a private clinic in Munich.
Played the role of Benedictus when the Mystery Dramas were performed
in Munich (1910-1913). Co-founder of the
Bauverein
and member of its council from
1911 until 1925. From 1911 to 1913 a member of the council of the
German Section. From 1915/16 leader of the anthroposophical work in
Munich. From 1921 to 1924 worked as a doctor at the
Klinisch-Therapeutisches Institut
in Stuttgart.
POLLAK, RICHARD
(Karlin, Prague 1867–1940 Dachau)
He and his wife were both artists and took part in the painting of
the large dome of the first Goetheanum (1914-1919). In the
concentration camp at Dachau he gave over a hundred anthroposophical
lectures to those doomed to accompany him through death.
POLZER-HODITZ, LUDWIG COUNT OF
(Prague 1869–1945 Vienna)
Member from 1911. In 1917 he used his influence to interest the
Austrian government in Rudolf Steiner's movement for the threefold
social order. From 1919 to 1921 he worked in Austria for the
threefold movement. He became chairman of the Austrian
Anthroposophical Society at its foundation in October 1923. At the
Christmas Foundation Conference, he was the representative of the
council of the Austrian Society.
PUSCH, HANS LUDWIG
(1902–1976)
Actor. Participated in Rudolf Steiner's dramatic course given in 1924
and subsequently worked as a member of the Goetheanum stage ensemble
under Marie Steiner. Moved to the USA in 1939 where he lectured, gave
courses in speech formation and staged the Mystery Dramas.
PYLE, WILLIAM SCOTT
(b. America – d.1938 The Hague)
Painter. From 1921/22 in Dornach. In 1929/30, together with his wife
Mieta Pyle-Waller, he designed the scenery for the third and fourth
Mystery Dramas. At the suggestion of Rudolf Steiner he worked at the
production of new plant-based paints (‘Anthea Paints’).
RATHENAU, WALTHER
See
Note 6.
REICHEL, DR FRANZ
(d.1960 in Prague)
One of the representatives of the council of the Anthroposophical
Society in Czechoslovakia.
RENZIS, BARONESS EMMELINA DE
(d.1945 in Rome)
Member from 1909. Was one of the pioneers of the Anthroposophical
Society in Italy. After Rudolf Steiner lectured there in 1909 she
became the leader of a branch in Rome and concerned herself with the
translation of his works into Italian.
RIHOUET-COROZE, SIMONE
(Paris 1892–1982 Paris)
Member from 1913. In 1921 she founded the Paris eurythmy school and
the journal
Science spirituelle.
From 1931 to 1976 she was General Secretary of
the Anthroposophical Society in France. Translated the works of
Rudolf Steiner and published the journal Triades. Wrote
Rudolf Steiner, une Epopee de l'Esprit au XXe Siècle,
Paris 1951.
SAUERWEIN, ALICE
(b. Marseille – d.1931 in Switzerland)
Sister of the prominent French journalist and anthroposophist Jules
Sauerwein. Founded the Paris group ‘Saint-Michel’ for
whom Rudolf Steiner gave lectures in 1913 and 1914. From its founding
in 1923, she was the General Secretary of the French Anthroposophical
Society till 1930.
SIMON, FRÄULEIN
SCHMIDT, HERR
SCHMIEDEL, DR OSKAR
(Vienna 1887–1959 Schwäbisch Gmünd)
Chemist. Member from 1907. Participated in establishing the Weleda
company and was a member of its management from the beginning and
later in Schwäbisch Gmünd.
SCHUBERT, DR KARL
(Vienna 1889–1949 Stuttgart)
Member from about 1910. In February 1920 Rudolf Steiner requested him
to take on the remedial class at the Waldorf School in Switzerland.
He was thus the first anthroposophical curative teacher. Later he
assisted in the establishment of curative establishments in Germany
and other countries.
SCHWARZ, LINA
(d.1947)
Met Anthroposophy in 1912 and was one of the pioneers of
anthroposophical work in Italy. Worked in the Milan branch, which she
represented at the Christmas Foundation Conference. She took over the
leadership after the death of the founder, Charlotte Ferreri. She
made excellent translations of Rudolf Steiner's works.
SCHWEBSCH, DR ERICH
(Frankfurt/Oder 1889–1953 Freiburg i.Br.)
Writer about music, teacher. Member from about 1919. At the request
of Friedrich Rittelmeyer, he contributed the essay ‘Goethe und
Rudolf Steiner’ to his anthology
Vom Lebenswerk Rudolf Steiners
(On the Life's Work of Rudolf Steiner). This drew him to the attention of
Rudolf Steiner who requested him to join the Waldorf School in
Stuttgart. He taught there from 1921. Its re-institution after the
Second World War was largely due to his initiative. In 1946 he
brought the Waldorf schools in Germany together in the Association of
Waldorf Schools, of which he was the chairman.
SCHWEIGLER, KARL RICHARD
Brother of the painter Emil Schweigler. Member from 1918 (St Gallen).
Founded a working group in Rorschach in 1921. Lived in Dornach from
1922.
STEFFEN, ALBERT
(Murgenthal/Aargau 1884–1963 Dornach)
Swiss poet. Met Rudolf Steiner in 1907 in Munich. Lived in Dornach
from the autumn of 1920 onwards. Became editor of the weekly
Das Goetheanum
when it was established in 1921. From Christmas 1923 till 1925 Vice-president
of the General Anthroposophical Society and Leader of the Section for
Belles-Lettres. From Christmas 1925 President of the Society. Writer
of poetry and plays, eg
In Memoriam Rudolf Steiner,
1925, and Begegnungen mit Rudolf Steiner
(Meetings with Rudolf Steiner), 1955.
STEIN, DR WALTER JOHANNES
(Vienna 1891–1957 London)
Member from 1913. From 1919 to 1932 teacher of history at the Waldorf
School in Stuttgart. From 1923 to 1928 a member of the council of the
German Anthroposophical Society. Later he worked in England.
STEINER, MARIE, NEE VON SIVERS
(Wloclawek/Russia 1867–1948 Beatenberg/ Switzerland).
From 1902 Rudolf Steiner's closest colleague in building up the
Movement and the Society. At Christmas 1914 they married. With him
she developed the Goetheanistic stage arts of speech formation and
eurythmy. At Christmas 1923 she became the Leader of the Section for
the Spoken Arts and Music. With the Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer
Verlag, which she founded in 1908, she ran the editing and publishing
of Rudolf Steiner's written works and his lectures. In 1943 she
founded the
Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung
to continue with this work. See Rudolf Steiner
The Course of My Life;
Marie Steiner von Sivers
Correspondence and Documents 1901-1905;
Hella Wiesberger
Aus dem Leben von Marie Steiner-von Sivers
(From the Life of Marie Steiner),
Dornach 1956;
Marie Steiner, ihr Weg zur Erneuerung der Bühnenkunst durch
Anthroposophie. Eine Dokumentation
(Marie Steiner. Her Path to a Renewal of Stagecraft through
Anthroposophy. A Documentation), Dornach 1973.
STIBBE, MAX
(b. Padang 1898 – d.1983)
Teacher. Member from 1920. In 1923 he became co-founder and teacher
at the first Dutch Waldorf school ‘De Vrije School’ at
The Hague.
STOKAR, WILLY
(Schaffhausen 1893–1953 Zurich)
Member from about 1916. Writer. 1921-23 colleague of Willy Storrer in
the smaller working committee at the Goetheanum, among other things
for tours of the building and as a lecturer. From time to time he was
also a member of the management committee of Futurum AG, Dornach.
STORRER, WILLY
(Töss bei Winterthur 1896–1930 Dornach)
From 1919 onwards worked with Roman Boos in the threefold movement
and in his secretarial and organizational work at the Goetheanum. In
the early summer of 1921 he took on the responsibility for Dr Boos's
work in this area. After the founding of the weekly journal
Das Goetheanum,
Rudolf Steiner entrusted him with the administrative side. He thus
became manager of the
Verlag am Goetheanum.
In 1920 he was a founder-member and the secretary
of the branch at the Goetheanum. In 1923 he co-founded the
Neue Generation branch.
Belonged to the smaller working committee at the Goetheanum till the
Christmas Foundation Conference in 1923. From time to time he was
also a member of the management committee of Futurum AG. On 3 May
1930 he met with a fatal accident in his private aeroplane on the
Gempen in Dornach.
STUTEN, JAN
(Nijmegen 1890–1948 Arlesheim)
Musician. Member from about 1910. From 1914 he was a permanent
musician at the Goetheanum (composing and conducting). He portrayed a
number of roles on the stage under the direction of Rudolf Steiner,
among others that of Faust. Later he also created scenery (in 1928
for the first and second Mystery Dramas). Composer of various works,
above all stage music for
Faust, Parts One and Two
and for Rudolf Steiner's funeral. Member of the
Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung.
THUT, PAUL
(b.1872–1955 Bern)
Engineer. Director of the power station at Bern. Member in Bern for
many years.
TRIMLER, DR
TRINLER, KARL
(d.1964)
Arlesheim and Basel.
TYMSTRA, FRANS
(b.1891–1979 Arlesheim)
From Holland.
UNGER, DR CARL
(Bad Cannstatt 1878–1929 Nuremberg)
Member from 1902/03. Till his death he was the leader of the main
branch in Stuttgart, which he had founded in 1905 together with Adolf
Arenson. From 1913 to 1923 he was a member of the central Vorstand of
the Anthroposophical Society. From 1923 he was a member of the
council of the German national Society. At the Christmas Foundation
Conference he represented that council and also the Porto Alegre
group in Brazil. From January 1914 to September 1915 he was the
technical building manager of the first Goetheanum and from 1913 to
1925 in the council of the
Bauverein.
Before beginning a public lecture on Anthroposophy in Nuremberg
on 4 January 1929 he was shot dead by a mentally ill man. His
collected works have been published in three volumes.
USTERI, DR ALFRED
(Säntis area of Switzerland 1869–1948 Reinach)
Papers on botany. Plant drawings; lectures at the Goetheanum.
VREEDE, DR ELISABETH
(The Hague 1879–1943 Ascona)
Member of the Theosophical Society as early as about 1902. From April
1914 she worked at the Goetheanum where from 1919 onwards she set up
the archive of Rudolf Steiner's lectures. In 1920 she became a
founder-member and later the secretary of the branch at the
Goetheanum. In 1922/23 she was a member of the smaller working
committee at the Goetheanum and from Christmas 1923 till 1935 she was
a member of the founding Vorstand of the General Anthroposophical
Society and the Leader of the Section for Mathematics and
Astronomy.
WACHSMUTH, DR GUENTHER
(Dresden 1893–1963 Dornach)
Permanently in Dornach from 1921. In 1922/23 in the smaller working
committee at the Goetheanum. From Christmas 1923 till 1963 he was a
member of the Vorstand of the General Anthroposophical Society in the
capacity of Secretary and Treasurer, and Leader of the Natural
Science Section. He wrote, among other things:
Rudolf Steiners Erdenleben und Wirken. Eine Biographie
(Rudolf Steiner's Life and Work),
Dornach 1941 and 1951;
Die ätherischen Bildekräfte in Kosmos, Erde und Mensch
(The Etheric Formative Forces in Cosmos, Earth and Man), Stuttgart 1924.
WACHSMUTH, DR WOLFGANG
(Dresden 1891–1953 Arlesheim)
Worked for various publishing companies. He met Anthroposophy towards
the end of the First World War. In Stuttgart from 1920 he took over
the management of the publishing company
Der Kommende Tag AG
until it was dissolved in 1924/25. From time to time he was a member
of the council of the Anthroposophical Society in Germany.
WEGMAN, DR MED ITA
(Java 1876–1943 Arlesheim)
Member from approximately 1903. Studied medicine in Zurich. In 1921
she founded the
Klinisch-Therapeutisches Institut
in Arlesheim which resulted in close collaboration with Rudolf Steiner
in the field of medicine. From 1922 to 1924 she was on the council of
management of the International Laboratories in Arlesheim. From
1922-23 in the smaller working committee at the Goetheanum. From
Christmas 1923 to 1935 she was the Recorder of the Vorstand of the
General Anthroposophical Society and Leader of the Medical Section.
From 1924-25 she was Rudolf Steiner's physician. Together they wrote
Fundamentals of Therapy.
WEISS, FRAU
WERBECK, LOUIS MICHAEL JULIUS
(Hamburg 1879–1928 Hamburg)
Member from 1910. From 1917 leader of the
Pythagoras branch in Hamburg. From 1923 he was a member of the
council of the German Anthroposophical Society. He wrote
Die wissenschaftlichen Gegner Rudolf Steiners und der Anthroposophie
durch sie selbst widerlegt
(The Scientific Opponents of Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy
Disproved by Themselves)
and
Die christlichen Gegner Rudolf Steiners und der Anthroposophie
(The Christian Opponents of Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy),
Stuttgart 1924.
WINDELBAND, WILHELM
See
Note 41.
WULLSCHLEGER, FRITZ
(Zofingen 1896–1969 Zofingen)
Teacher. Member from 1920. Member of the School Association for
Independent Education in Switzerland. (See
Note 56.
ZAGWIJN, HENRI
(d.1954)
Composer and writer from Rotterdam. Set to music Rudolf Steiner's
verses ‘Im Seelenaug ...’ and ‘Die Sonne
schaue ...’ Wrote
Die Musik im Lichte der Anthroposophie
(Music in the Light of Anthroposophy).
Teacher at the Waldorf school in The Hague.
ZEYLMANS VAN EMMICHOVEN, DR MED F W WILLEM
(Helmond 1893–1961 Johannesburg)
Member from 1920. Founder of the Rudolf Steiner Clinic in The Hague,
co-founder of the Anthroposophical Society in Holland and from
November 1923 its General Secretary. Wrote, among other works,
Rudolf Steiner, Eine Biographie
(Rudolf Steiner, A Biography), Stuttgart 1961.
[Note: a reader who was at the funeral of
Dr Zeylmans van Emmichoven has reported he died in Cape Town,
not Johannesburg. His ashes were scattered on Table Mountain. e.Ed]