Defense Against Falsehoods

Das Goetheanum, 2nd year, No. 9

I have been informed that it is being said in Switzerland that the former President of Württemberg, Mr. Blos, is reported to have stated with certainty that he received me several times. I hereby declare that this is a blatant untruth. I never visited Mr. Blos, never spoke a word with him, never exchanged any written communication with him. I only saw him from a distance once. That was when I attended the lecture that the then Reich Minister Simons gave in Stuttgart. At the time, Councillor of Commerce Molt pointed to a gentleman I did not know and said, “That's Blos.” At that time, he was no longer President of the State. But even then, it came to nothing more than “seeing from a distance”. Whether Mr. Blos himself made the above claim is unknown to me; it is said. And it is linked to his untrue statements, which are not based on anything, and which he had printed in memoirs. I therefore further declare that I never authorized anyone to talk to Mr. Blos for me or on my behalf. If someone did so, it was against my will and without my knowledge. I only read in Blos' memoirs that someone is supposed to have done this. The things that are being told so often are based on such falsehoods. It is particularly absurd that the story is even told that I wanted to become a minister in Württemberg. I have so far considered it unnecessary to publicly refute pure fabrications, especially when they are as nonsensical as the one just mentioned. But since it is said, “Why doesn't the person concerned contradict such allegations?”, I also declare in relation to this that it is a blatant untruth. I have never said anything to anyone that could have given rise to such talk. Today I shall not deal with other things that are said repeatedly, but which are just as untrue. Perhaps that too will yet come about.

Dornach, September 27, 1922
Rudolf Steiner