GA 23 · Writings

Die Kernpunkte der Sozialen Frage (1919)

The Threefold Social Order

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

Publication

Status in the catalogpublished the site's GA catalog
Kindtext the site's GA catalog
ISBN

Editions of the German volume

EditionYearPagesWitness
6the publisher's online catalog
7the publisher's online catalog
1976AnthroWiki (German)
2022AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

8 units in the printed table of contents, about 36,832 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1976.

The units as printed
HeadingDatePlaceKindWords
VORREDE UND EINLEITUNG ZUM 41. BIS 80. TAUSEND DIESER SCHRIFTtext3774
VORBEMERKUNGEN ÜBER DIE ABSICHT DIESER SCHRIFTtext1323
I DIE WAHRE GESTALT DER SOZIALEN FRAGE, ERFASST AUS DEM ...text6245
II. DIE VOM LEBEN GEFORDERTEN WIRKLICHKEITSGEMASSEN LÖSUNGSVERSUCHE ...text8097
III. KAPITALISMUS UND SOZIALE IDEENtext11863
IV.INTERNATIONALE BEZIEHUNGEN DER SOZIALEN ORGANISMENtext3674
V. ANHANGtext1292
Hinweise des Herausgebersapparatus564

German text

Served. Taken from the Rudolf Steiner Archive's German pages, with units added by this site from a scan or digital edition of the print, recorded below.

Units served7 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text7 the site's completeness audit
Words served36336 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Sourcehttps://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA023/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used1976 the source record of the served German
Methoddigital edition (EPUB)
Added2026-10-18
Checksumsha256 da3f0c22f5f12c43

English

Served on this site

The Threefold Social Order (1972) the edition's imprint line (GA023/AP1972); AnthroWiki (English) AP1972

TranslatorFrederick C. Heckel the edition's imprint line (GA023/AP1972); AnthroWiki (English)
PublisherAnthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English)
Years1972
Collected Works23 AnthroWiki (English)
As the witnesses print it
  • The Threefold Social Order (1972), This volume is a presentation of Steiner's central ideas on the the edition's imprint line (GA023/AP1972)
  • • [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *The Threefold Social Order*. **CW 23**. Translation by Frederick C. Heckel. Anthroposophic Press 1972 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0023/English/AP1972/GA023_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

Basic Issues of the Social Question (2001) the edition's imprint line (GA023/SCR2001) SCR2001

TranslatorFrank Thomas Smith the edition's imprint line (GA023/SCR2001)
Years1919, 2001
As the witnesses print it
  • Basic Issues of the Social Question (2001), In the social ferment of postwar Europe in 1919, Steiner presented his ideas about reforming the basis of society in three fundamental, autonomous spheres: economic, political/rights, and cultural. For a short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application but it soon became impossible to bring about a “threefold social order” and he withdrew from the outer work in this area. His ideas have been worked with over the decades since that time and have proved to be just as valid today as they were then. This volume is a presentation of Steiner's central ideas on the threefold nature of the social organism. Translation by Frank Thomas Smith. the edition's imprint line (GA023/SCR2001)

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

TitleTranslatorPublisherYearISBNRights
Toward a Threefold Society: Basic Issues of the Social Question AnthroWiki (English) Frank Thomas Smith AnthroWiki (English) Rudolf Steiner Publications AnthroWiki (English) 2019 978-1948302166
Towards Social Renewal. Rethinking the Basis of Society AnthroWiki (English) Rudolf Steiner Press AnthroWiki (English) 2000 978-1855840720
Basic Issues of the Social Question AnthroWiki (English) Frank Thomas Smith AnthroWiki (English) Southern Cross Review AnthroWiki (English) 2001

Alignment of German and English

EditionUnitsConfidence (high, medium, low)Paragraph pairsGaps (German, English)
AP197270, 0, 700, 0
SCR200181, 1, 6440, 0

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Die Kernpunkte der Sozialen Frage (1919) (GA 23), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/23/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/23/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions AP1972, SCR2001.

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Witnesses

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the site's alignment tables
~/data/build/search-2026-10-21b.db · sha256 01257d325bec9eef
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German)
https://anthrowiki.at/GA_23
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English)
https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_23 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index
site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog
data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog
the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German
data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022
Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the edition's imprint line (GA023/AP1972)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA023/AP1972/00_toc.md · sha256 2519642fdfd74a9d
the edition's imprint line (GA023/SCR2001)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA023/SCR2001/00_toc.md · sha256 8d602a7094e4b1aa
the printed table of contents
data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 da3f0c22f5f12c43
the edition code
data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA023/ · sha256 b9f800b3d491bfb6
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit
research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21

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