principal medical-anthroposophical collaborator from 1917; co-founder of the Clinical Therapeutic Institute in Arlesheim 1921; co-author with Steiner of Steiner'sDutch-born physician, Fundamentals of Therapy + Albert Steffen + Guenther Wachsmuth bloc (oriented toward Steiner's literary estate and the Goetheanum's operational stability). The 1935 General Assembly expelled Wegman + Vreede + Adams + Poppelbaum from the Vorstand; large sections of the membership went with them. The major rupture in the post-1925 anthroposophical movement.Marie Steiner-von Sivers (GA 27, 1925); member of the Vorstand of the General Anthroposophical Society from the Christmas Foundation Conference 1923-24. After Steiner's death March 1925, Wegman became the focal point of the post-1925 anthroposophical conflict — between her circle (medical-pedagogical- esoteric, oriented toward continuation of Steiner's last esoteric impulses) and the
's reading (T&R Ch 20), Wegman is the "first ray of the newly emerging earthly-human sunrise" of 1933-45. On Steiner's last birthday February 22, 1925, Steiner told her: "It would be nice if we could travel to Palestine soon." Wegman fulfilled this deathbed wish by organizing the Michaelmas 1934 Palestine voyage on the ship Vienna — Werner Pache, Julia Bort, Georg Moritz von Sachsen-Altenburg (heir to the throne), Adam Bittleston, Margarethe Bockholt, Erich Kirchner, Mien Viehoff in the delegation. Voyage via Brindisi → Corfu → Athens → Eleusis → Delphi → Thebes → Constantinople (5 days) → Rhodes → Cyprus → Jaffa arriving September 29, 1934, the Day of Michael. Documentary source: Peter Selg, Ben-AharonPer Spiritual Resistance: Ita Wegman 1933-1935 (Rudolf Steiner Press 2014); Emanuel Zeylmans, Wer war Ita Wegman (3 vols, Heidelberg 1990-92). Died March 4, 1943, in Ascona during the war. (Claim BA-TR-006.)