Appendix D

Jürgen Saupe and the Pre-2000 European Organizing Network

The institutional narrative of the Human Design System locates its origin in a single revelation to a single individual in 1987 and its custodianship in a single corporation formed to protect that revelation. The documentary record of the system’s first decade in Europe describes a different structure: a small organizing network of translators, publishers, software developers, and national organizers, several of whom held the foundational assets of the system in their own names. The clearest case is Jürgen Saupe.

D.1. The Printed Bodygraph and the Rights, 1992

The Human Design System was first published as a printed book in 1992, five years after the transmission its author dated to January 1987. The book, known among practitioners as the “Black Book”, contained the first printed bodygraph, the diagram that would become the international visual standard of the system.¹

The German-language archive operated by the German Human Design community records that the rights to that diagram did not rest with Ra Uru Hu or with any corporation he later formed. Its History page states:

Seit 1992 war er Inhaber der Rechte an der Rave Körpergrafik, welche nach seinem Tod im Juli 2002 an die Familie Saupe übergegangen sind.

[From 1992 he was the holder of the rights to the Rave bodygraph, which after his death in July 2002 passed to the Saupe family.]²

The holder named is Jürgen Saupe. The source is not an oppositional document; it is the German community’s own published history of the system.

D.2. Translator, Publisher, and the Founding of New Sun Services

The same History page records Saupe’s role in the European establishment of the system in terms the consolidated institutional narrative does not preserve:

Allen voran sei hier Jürgen Saupe genannt, der als überragender Übersetzer und Dolmetscher, als Herausgeber der Bücher sowie als Begründer und Leiter von New Sun Services die Grundlagen schuf und festigte, dass sich das Human Design System in Europa und von da aus in aller Welt verbreiten konnte.

[Above all, Jürgen Saupe should be named here, who as an outstanding translator and interpreter, as publisher of the books, and as founder and director of New Sun Services, created and consolidated the foundations for the Human Design System to spread in Europe and from there throughout the world.]³

Three elements are documentarily significant. Saupe was the system’s translator and interpreter into German, the conduit through which the early teaching reached the European audience. He was the publisher of the books. And he was the founder and director of an organization the archive names New Sun Services.

A contemporary witness corroborates this publishing role from outside the German archive. Eleanor Haspel-Portner (Ra Uru Hu’s 1999–2002 research partner, treated in Section C) has stated that the system’s first book was to be issued by a European publisher that withdrew before publication, and that Saupe, who had worked with that publisher, then financed the book himself with family funds and partnered with Ra to teach it across Europe.⁴ Her account, given decades later, aligns with the archive’s record of Saupe as the system’s translator and publisher, and adds that the original publication was privately underwritten by Saupe rather than by Ra or any corporation. An independent chronology of the system’s early years records the same sequence, that Saupe had been engaged to translate the book, that the publishing arrangement collapsed, and that Saupe then carried the costs himself, mortgaging his house to finance the publications and the early touring.⁵

That name is treated elsewhere in this book. The United States national organization operated by the subjects of Chapter Four was named New Sun Services America, a name its founders record as having been requested by Ra Uru Hu himself in the 1993 contract.⁶ The recurrence of “New Sun Services” across the German and American organizations indicates a shared naming convention applied to the early national bodies rather than two unrelated coincidences. The book does not resolve the corporate relationship between the entities; it records that the shared root appears in the documentary record on both continents.

D.3. The Technical Layer: Memmert and Neutrinos

The same History page records that the calculation software on which the system’s distribution depended was the work of a second figure in the German network:

1993 erhielt das Human Design System durch die genial-kreative Leistung von Erik Memmert seine Software „Neutrinos Through Windows”, ohne die das HDS nicht hätte verbreitet werden können.

[In 1993 the Human Design System received, through the ingenious-creative achievement of Erik Memmert, its software “Neutrinos Through Windows,” without which the HDS could not have been disseminated.]⁷

Memmert, based in Augsburg, operates New SunWare, which has maintained the bodygraph graphics within its software to the present.⁸ He is named as a co-author of the 1999–2000 research paper treated in Section C.⁹ The calculation infrastructure that allowed the system to move from hand-drawn charts to global distribution originated, on the record, outside the corporation that would later represent itself as the system’s custodian.

D.4. Absence from the September 2000 National Contracts

In September 2000 Ra Uru Hu extended formal national contracts to a group of original European and Japanese organizers, binding their territorial schools to Jovian Archive Corporation.¹⁰ Saupe was not among the signatories. The bodygraph rights he had held since 1992 were not assigned to Jovian Archive; as the German History page records, those rights passed on his death to his family, not to the corporation.¹¹

The non-assignment is structurally consequential. The asset most central to the institutional claim, the bodygraph the corporation would later represent as proprietary, had a documented chain of title that ran through Saupe and then to his heirs, and at no documented point through Jovian Archive.

D.5. Death, July 13, 2002

The German archive maintains a dedicated memorial page for Saupe. It records his dates precisely:

3. Mai 1940 in Berlin — 13. Juli 2002 ca. 11:30 in München.

[3 May 1940 in Berlin — 13 July 2002, approximately 11:30, in Munich.]¹²

The memorial, signed “Deine Freunde und Schüler” (Your friends and students), describes his life’s work as the “Wegbereitung für das Human Design System in Europa und der Welt”, the pioneering of the Human Design System in Europe and the world.¹³

Saupe died holding the rights to the bodygraph, one year before Ra’s July 2003 letter consolidated the institution and removed the original American organizers from the official register.¹⁴

D.6. The Contradiction with the Institutional Record

The institution that consolidated under a single corporation and a single school from 2010 onward has represented itself publicly as founded in 1992 and as custodian of the system’s proprietary assets, including the bodygraph.¹⁵ The German community’s own contemporaneous record supports neither element as applied to the bodygraph. From 1992 the bodygraph rights belonged to Saupe; the software belonged to Memmert; the European foundation was built by an organizing network of named individuals, each of whom the archive credits by name.

Saupe is not absent from the post-2010 institutional record because he was a minor figure. He is absent because he died in 2002, before the consolidation, holding an asset the consolidated institution would later claim, and because the institutional narrative had no place for an origin story in which the system’s foundational diagram was owned by someone other than its author or his corporation.

D.7. Application to the Section A.11 Pattern

The erasure mechanism set out in Section A.11 has five features: an original contributor present at the foundational moment; documentary evidence of that presence; a subsequent institutional narrative that minimizes or omits the contribution; the consolidation of origin and ownership in a single figure or corporation; and a surviving documentary record left by the original party.¹⁶

Saupe’s case exhibits four of the five directly and the fifth by inversion. He was present at the foundational moment, the 1992 publication and the European establishment of the system. The documentary evidence of his presence is preserved, and preserved by the community itself rather than by an adversary. The institutional narrative consolidates origin and ownership in a single corporation. The surviving record (the History page, the memorial page, the chain of rights) was left not by Saupe, who could leave nothing after 2002, but by the network around him, which continued to document what he had built. The single feature his case does not share with the living subjects of this appendix is the possibility of contradiction by the figure himself. The record stands in his place.