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Subject: "Dr Treher"
Dan Dugan wrote, arguing for his imagination of Steiner as dreaming of "being the 'philosopher king' enthroned in Dornach" by referring to a "Dr Wolfgang Treher": The philosopher king idea is my own, based on my reading of Steiner. The change in course after the failure of the Threefold Social Order is documented below, along with some other tidbits. Full biblio data on request.Sounds impressive. Immediately reminded me of your description Wed, 10 May 2000 20:54:53 -0700 of a Dr Gorter. Searching the net for info on him, it turned out he - after having practiced as an anthroposophical MD for 20 years- in 1998 worked as associate clinical professor at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center (Department of Family and Community Medicine), and also as medical director of the European Institute for Oncological and Immunological Research" and recently having published "PhaseI/II trial to document immunomodulatory, cytotoxic and potentially anti-HIV properties of Iscador" in Journal of the American Medical Association (1995;12:3-5). Your description of this was "I don't want him practicing medicine. Thanks to his Anthroposophical re-training, he's given up science." Great "truth in advertising" by the moderator of this list and secretary of PLANS ... It is difficult to find much info on this "Dr Wolfgang Treher" on the net. You mentioned him shortly in Dec 1995 on this list. I only found three who mention and comment on him as more than as an author of for example "Transzendenz und Katastrophe: Ernst Jünger im Spiegel der Hegelschen Philosophie. Emmendingen-Maleck: Oknos, 1993" One is http://www.hrz.uni-giessen.de/fb03//vinci/labore/lounge/rollen.htm It writes, probably commenting on Rowohlt Literaturmagazin 37: Pop Technik Poesie - Die nächste Generation (2/3 down the page): "It is most of all thanks to Ulrich Holbein, that the book on spite of all is worthy of reading. Holbein is, in general, a younger version of the solitary Arno Schmidt. He is self-taught and lives somewhere in Hessen, where he spends most of his time organizing his library according to the colour or form of the books. In the book published by Rowohlt he publishes an extremely amusing correspondence with the neurologist and psychiatrist Wolfgang Treher, who all the time writes books, that appear in small editions, against Hegel, Hitler, Ernst Jünger and above all Rudolf Steiner." The second is http://www.groene.nl/1996/09/rz_stein.html (40% down the page):
Then in an approximate translation: "Treher in his 1966 published study compared Steiner and Hitler. Treher: 'Rudolf Steiner and Adolf Hitler, both coming from Austrian forrest regions, were not only of the same nationality, but also very much resembled each other as individuals. They both after a pre-stage experienced a comet-like career. They even seemed to dress alike. During the incubation phase of both, enthusiastic, partly older women played a decisive role as protective, inspiring forces. Both were vegetarians and promoted this vegetarianism as a philosophy when they started to make it their mission to preach it. Both Hitler and Steiner also have an abundantly immense production, that in itself makes you suspect them of being psychotic [...] They viewed themselves as universal geniuses of humanity of an unimaginable size." The third page is http://carpe.com/ligatur/lio_rlm_37.html also comments on Rowohlt Literaturmagazin 37: Pop Technik Poesie - Die nächste Generation: "The book ends with an authentic and rather amusing correspondence between Ulrich Holbein and a certain Wolfgang Treher, psychiatrist and neurologist on anthroposophy, that generally escalates to a verbal exchange of blows and procures the reader with the interesting insight, that even the cultivated academic for the sake of reaching the intended insult willingly fishes out of the manyfacetted treasury of German words referring to the fecal area." Good source, Dan. Sune Nordwall
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