# 1906 Annual Report for the German Section of the Theosophical Society

*Read by Peter de Abrew, Esq. Translated by Marie Steiner for the thirty-first Anniversary and Convention of the T.S.*

To the President-Founder, TS: - With my respectful and fraternal greeting I have pleasure in submitting to you the Annual Report of the German Section TS.

In the course of last year New Branches have been formed in Frankfurt on the Main, Bonn, Heidelberg, Bremen, St. Gallen and Basel (Switzerland); a second branch in Munich; centres in Regensburg, Elberfeld and Esslingen. The Berlin Branch has dissolved, so that the active work in Berlin is carried on by the large Besant Branch. A new lodge is in formation in Kassel.

The total number of Branches in Berlin is now 24, and 3 centres. 237 members have joined the Section during the year; 7 have died, 11 resigned or dropped and 5 passed over to other Sections. So that the net increase amounts to 214. The effective number of members at the last Convention was 591.

The lecture-work of Dr. Rudolf Steiner in Germany and Switzerland has been continued in the same intensive way as in the last year. Besides these have been introduced series of daily lectures held by Dr. Steiner in various towns that have proved very effective, because, apart from the stimulation given by single lectures, they make it possible to develop to a larger audience a total picture of theosophical philosophy. Such series of lectures have been developed thus far in Leipzig, Stuttgart and Munich. Great stress is put, in the German Section, upon the fact that the Society should not only grow through the increase of its members, but that the theosophical philosophy should spread though an intensive lecturing activity. This is the best way of doing propaganda here. And through this way of working, the movement advances here despite the difficulties.

The Review edited by Dr. Rudolf Steiner, Luzifer Gnosis, has continued its task. It has considerably gained in expansion.

A new Sectional organ has been founded under the title Mitteilungen; it is edited by Miss Scholl.

From outward literature there have been translated: Mrs. Besant’s «Study of Consciousness» by Mr. G. Wagner; «New Psychology» by Mrs. Leibke; Ed. [Schuré's] «Les Grands Initiés» by Fräulein von Sivers.

The number of steady workers has been increased through Mrs. E. Wolfram in Leipzig, who spreads the theosophical ideas in Leipzig through good lectures.

The Fourth Annual Convention was held in Berlin, on October 22nd and 23rd. For the Executive Committee, besides the members named in our last report, Mrs. E. Wolfram has been chosen.

We shall make ourselves ready for a worthy celebration of the Congress of the European Federation, which is to be held in Munich, at Whitsuntide, May 19th.

‘We send our warmest greetings to all brothers in India and especially to our revered President.

Dr. Rudolf Steiner,  
General Secretary.