Motions
Motions submitted by the Executive Council
Following the consultations at last year’s AGM, amendments are suggested to the Statutes of the General Anthroposophical Society, Articles 6 and 12, concerning the inclusion of the Conference of Country Societies as an organ of the General Society and the deletion of the passage regarding an Executive Council chairperson:
1 Article 6 is to be amended as follows (amendments in italics):
«6. The General Anthroposophical Society has as its organs:
a) the General Meeting
b) the Conference of Country Societies
c) the Executive Council
d) the auditors»
2 Article 12 is to be amended as follows:
Currently: «12. The Society is led by an initiative council, consisting of a minimum of three members. The nomination of the Chair and the additional members of the Executive Council follow proposals made by the Executive Council in agreement with the General Meeting for a period of seven years. Extensions for a further seven years are possible by affirmation. The assignment of duties within the Executive Council and its manner of conducting business are to be regulated by the Executive Council itself.»
Proposed new wording (changes in italics):
«12. The Society is led by an initiative council, consisting of a minimum of three members. The nomination and extension of the Executive Council for a period of seven years are decided in agreement with the Goetheanum Leadership and the Conference of Country Societies and require confirmation by the General Meeting. Extensions for a further seven years a possible. The assignment of duties within the Executive Council and its manner of conducting business are to be regulated by the Executive Council itself.»
Motions submitted by members
3 Andrea Meyer Jeserich, Dornach (CH), moves that the Annual General Meeting should decide to allow the architect and sculptor Christian Hitsch to present his designs, drawings and plans as well as his model for maintenance work to be carried out on the Schreinerei (Carpentry building) in the way they are currently shown in the sculpture exhibition at the Goetheanum to the members at the General Anthroposophical Society’s AGM, and that the members should be included in the planning of any maintenance work on the Schreinerei building. Christian Hitsch could present his concept during the events surrounding the AGM and it could then be decided on by the members.»
4 Robert Jan Kelder, Amsterdam (NL), moves that «In order to re-establish the form, suited to time and spirit and required to nurture the anthroposophical movement – or the new, true Christianity – as it prepares the sixth cultural era, the Annual General Meeting shall decide on a process involving the entire Society that can initiate or support the required consciousness-building and social development which may, as part of the centenary celebrations in 2023, result in the General Anthroposophical Society’s separation into three sub-departments: the Anthroposophical Society, its administration and the administration of the Goetheanum building.
Because the constitutions of the country societies must not oppose that of the General Anthroposophical Society, the AGM shall also decide to encourage them, too, to urgently start re-establishing the form required for nurturing the anthroposophical movement, or the new Christianity.»