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Jürgen Saupe

Founding European teacher; translator; publisher; founder of New Sun Services; holder of bodygraph image rights 1992–2002.

Jürgen Saupe is deceased. He died July 13, 2002 in Munich, Germany. This profile is maintained as part of the historical record of the Human Design System’s founding generation in Europe. Jürgen Saupe held the image rights to the Rave BodyGraph from 1992; those rights passed to the Saupe family on his death, not to Jovian Archive.

Legal birth name
Jürgen Saupe
Teaching name
Jürgen Saupe
Born
May 3, 1940, Berlin, Germany. Died: July 13, 2002, circa 11:30, Munich, Germany.
Birth time note

Birth data not publicly available. Chart not published. Death time is documented in the published obituary (humandesignsystem.de/Nachruf_Saupe.asp) as “ca. 11:30” in Munich, July 13, 2002.

Type / Authority / Profile / Definition / Cross
Not published
Active in the system
1992 — July 13, 2002 (death)
Role
Founding European teacher; translator; publisher; founder of New Sun Services; holder of bodygraph image rights 1992–2002
Trained by
Ra Uru Hu
Country
Germany (Munich)
Website
humandesignsystem.de (historical site; maintained as archive) IHDS listing: Founding-era teacher and publisher; deceased
Teaching focus

Jürgen Saupe was among the most consequential figures in the founding generation of the Human Design System — not primarily as an analyst or teacher in the classroom sense, but as the person who made it possible for the system to reach Europe and from there the world. In 1992 he translated Ra Uru Hu’s foundational text — known as the black book, “Das Human Design System” — into German, bringing the system into the German-speaking world for the first time. He founded New Sun Services as the publishing and distribution vehicle for Human Design materials in Europe, and served as Ra’s primary translator and interpreter for German-speaking audiences. He was one of the first two teachers to offer complete Human Design analyst training in the German-speaking countries (alongside Martin Grassinger), beginning in 1994. Practitioners trained in the mid-1990s in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland describe being trained by both Ra and Jürgen Saupe. He held the image rights to the Rave BodyGraph from 1992. On his death in July 2002, those rights passed to the Saupe family — not to Jovian Archive. He died in Munich on July 13, 2002. His death prompted the publication of an obituary on the German Human Design community site humandesignsystem.de that described him as having “ein hörendes Herz” — a listening heart — always there for everyone who approached him.

Documented contributions

  • Translated Ra Uru Hu’s foundational text (“Das Human Design System,” the black book) into German, 1992 — the first translation of HD material into any language
  • Founded New Sun Services as the European publishing and distribution vehicle for Human Design materials
  • Served as Ra Uru Hu’s primary translator and interpreter for German-speaking audiences
  • One of the first two teachers to offer complete Human Design analyst training in German-speaking countries (1994, alongside Martin Grassinger)
  • Held the image rights to the Rave BodyGraph from 1992 until his death in 2002
  • Rights to the bodygraph image passed to the Saupe family on his death, not to Jovian Archive
  • Trained a generation of German-speaking analysts and teachers in the 1990s

Primary sources