Wed, 04 Feb 2004

Court rules against reactivation of “General Anthroposophical Society (Christmas Conference)”

Dornach, 4 February (NNA) – In the legal dispute over the existence of the recently reactivated “General Anthroposophical Society (Christmas Conference)”, the Dorneck-Thierstein district court in Switzerland has ruled against the executive council of the General Anthroposophical Society.

A statement from one of the plaintiff groups, which claims that the Christmas Conference society has ceased to exist and thus cannot be reactivated, said it had been informed by the court that the judge had found against the defendant and that “the General Anthroposophical Society (Christmas Conference) shall be removed from the commercial register.”

In a first response from the Anthroposophical Society, Isabell von Heymann from the Goetheanum press office told NNA: “We have noted the judgement. We are currently discussing the next steps and are waiting to receive the judge’s reasoning.“

In November, members attending the extraordinary general meetings of the General Anthroposophical Society (GAS) and the recently reactivated General Anthroposophical Society (Christmas Conference) at the Goetheanum approved the plan to merge the GAS with the so-called Christmas Conference Society, giving the GAS executive council discretion as to when to go ahead with the fusion.

Those plans will now have to be put on hold.

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Item: N040204-01EN Date: 4 February 2004

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