Emil Leinhas

Emil Gustav Karl Leinhas (born March 4, 1878 in Mannheim , † January 20, 1967 in Muralto ) was a German businessman and anthroposophist . From 1919 he was one of Rudolf Steiner's closest collaborators in the threefolding movement .

Life

As the eldest son of eight children, Emil Leinhas had to work in his father's import-export company from an early age. Here, then in a grocery store , he completed his commercial training. In 1909 he married. In 1910 he became director of the Palmin factory in Hamburg .

In 1912 he was accepted into the closest circle of the German section of the Theosophical Society . When Leinhas worked in the War Ministry in Berlin during the war , and later in the War Food Office, he attended numerous lectures by Rudolf Steiner in Berlin .

In 1919, Emil Molt appointed Leinhas director of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart . In March 1920 he was a co-founder of the supervisory board and in September 1921 general director of the company Der Kommende Tag, which emerged from the threefolding work . Leinhas was also actively involved (in the working committee and with lectures) in 1919 in the dissemination of Rudolf Steiner's appeal to the German people and the cultural world .

Together with Carl Unger and Ernst Uehli , he was a member of the central board of the Anthroposophical Society from 1921 to 1923 . In 1922 he became accountant, later chairman of the Stuttgart Waldorf School Association and from February 1923 a member of the board of the Anthroposophical Society in Germany. In the Basel branch of Futurum AG , the "Strick- und Wirkwarenfabrik AG", he assumed the duties of managing director from September 1922 to August 1925 as a member of the board of directors.

After the threefolding movement failed, Emil Leinhas also took over the liquidation of the AG Der Kommende Tag . In doing so, he managed to save crucial values ​​and ensure the survival of the newly founded Waldorf School. From 1923 he worked on the board of directors of Internationale Laboratorien AG (ILAG) in Arlesheim, founded in 1922 . In October 1924, together with Joseph Emanuel van Leer, he took over the laboratories in Stuttgart and Schwäbisch Gmünd into ILAG , from which Weleda AG emerged . From 1926 to 1935, as director, Leinhas was responsible for the establishment of the German Weleda .

After 1935 he traded in leather goods and took part in the economic administration of the Stuttgart Waldorf School.

His endeavors to obtain recognition of Marie Steiner's testamentary author rights for Rudolf Steiner's work within society were unsuccessful. From 1949 he worked, among other things, as an editor and auditor in the Rudolf Steiner estate administration.

Works

• The bankruptcy of economics . Verlag Der Kommende Tag, Stuttgart 1921
• The idea of ​​the “coming day” . The coming day, Stuttgart 1921
• To threefold the social organism . Alfons Bürger-Verlag, Lorch 1946
• On the nature of the world economy. Try to establish a world economy . Bürger, Lorch 1949
• From work with Rudolf Steiner. Factual and personal . Zbinden, Basel 1950
• From the tasks and goals of the economy . Basel 1958
• Some points of view for understanding the processes in the Anthroposophical Society and Movement after Rudolf Steiner's death. An attempt . Private print, Stuttgart 1963

Web links

• Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register of StA Mannheim, No. 338/1878