Appendix E

The Original Circle: Persistence and Continuity of the Pre-Consolidation Contributors

Sections A through D document the institutional erasure mechanism in its several forms, contractual displacement, entity disappearance, the minimization of a research partner, and the omission of a foundational rights-holder. This section documents the evidence that faces the other way. The named contributors of the pre-2000 organizing circle did not vanish from the public record. Several remained continuously active in the years after the 2010 consolidation (most independently of the International Human Design School, one within it) and their activity is documented in publicly verifiable sources, including the institutional record itself.

The book makes no claim that the figures treated in this section were erased. The documentary significance of their continuity is narrower. It is that the foundational work of the Human Design System was distributed across a circle of named individuals, not concentrated in a single founder, and that this multiplicity is preserved in the public record even where the institutional narrative of a single school founded in 1992 does not acknowledge it.

E.1. The Circle in the Institution's Own Record

The clearest statement of the circle’s composition is the History page of the German Human Design community’s archive, treated in Section D. In a single passage it credits, by name, the figures it identifies as having made the system’s spread possible: Jürgen Saupe as translator, publisher, and founder-director of New Sun Services; Erik Memmert for the 1993 calculation software; Martin Grassinger and Wolfgang Schubert for substantive contributions on the relationship between the Human Design System and health; and Dr. Eleanor Haspel-Portner for the scientific testing and validation of the system.¹

This is not an oppositional account. It is the German community’s own published history, and it names a circle rather than a founder. Three of the named figures are treated elsewhere in this Appendix, Saupe in Section D, Memmert in Sections C and D, Haspel-Portner in Section C. The remaining figures, and the question of what became of the circle after consolidation, are the subject of this section.

E.2. Martin Grassinger

Martin Grassinger is among the earliest documented practitioners of the system. He describes himself as the first licensed Human Design analyst, certified in April 1993, and as a teacher of the complete Human Design analyst training since 1992; he has offered seminars on the Human Design System and health since 1995.² A classical homeopath in practice since 1981, he is described as the first health professional to integrate the Human Design System into clinical work.³

Grassinger’s continuity is independent of the consolidated institution. He maintains his own practice and teaching website and appears in the Human Design Worldwide professional directory; he is not listed in the professional register of the International Human Design School.⁴ His coalition statement, preserved in the German archive and treated in Section A, places his relationship with Ra before the system had a public name: “I knew Ra before the HDS was in the world.”⁵ Grassinger is a continuously active foundational contributor operating outside the IHDS structure.

E.3. Andrea Reikl-Wolf

Dr. Andrea Reikl-Wolf, a molecular geneticist in Vienna, encountered the Human Design System and Ra Uru Hu in 1997 and has worked as a full-time analyst and teacher since 2002.⁶ Hers is the one case in this section of continuity within the institution rather than outside it. After Ra’s death in 2011, Reikl-Wolf and Alokanand Díaz del Rio developed the Differentiation Degree Program further and trained its first practitioners; she is identified as the principal teacher of the Differentiation Degree Program at the International Human Design School, delivered through Human Design Austria.⁷

Reikl-Wolf’s position is documentarily significant for two reasons. First, it establishes that the advanced curriculum the post-2010 IHDS relied upon was, in material part, developed after Ra’s death by original-circle figures, not transmitted intact from a single founder. Second, as established in Section A, the fact that Reikl-Wolf and Díaz del Rio were the program’s only two qualified instructors is what made it possible to document that Peter Schöber had been credentialed without the corresponding training.⁸ The continuity of the original circle is, in her case, the very instrument by which a later irregularity in the institutional record became legible.

E.4. Werner Lessmann

Werner Lessmann, based near Nuremberg, is a graduate of the Differentiation Degree Program and a teacher for Living Your Design.⁹ He is the managing director of the Human Design Association e.V., an independent German Human Design body, and maintains an independent professional practice.¹⁰ As established in Section A, it was Lessmann’s correspondence with Lynda Bunnell in the 2015–2016 period that elicited the admission documenting the Schöber credentialing irregularity.¹¹

Lessmann’s case represents continuity outside the IHDS structure: an original-trained practitioner who organized an independent national association rather than operating under the consolidated school. His independent activity is part of the same documentary fact, the foundational circle persisted, in multiple organizational forms, after the consolidation.

E.5. Ilse Sendler

Ilse Sendler, the Austrian national director treated at length in Section A, represents a third form of continuity: the documentary. Beyond her contractual history, Sendler’s enduring contribution to the record is the archive she operates at ra.uru.hu, which preserves the primary sources (the August 2010 rescission letter, the coalition statements, the lawyer-verified position, and Ra’s own May 2008 email) on which much of this Appendix depends.¹² The continuity Sendler represents is not merely that of an active teacher but of an active archivist: an original participant who made the institutional record durable and publicly accessible. Section A treats her contractual case; this section records that her documentary work is itself an act of continuity, and the reason a substantial portion of the publicly verifiable record exists at all.

E.6. Application to the Section A.11 Pattern

The erasure mechanism set out in Section A.11 turns on the consolidation of origin and ownership into a single figure or corporation, against a documentary record left by the original parties. The cases in this section bear on that pattern from the reverse direction.

What these cases establish is not that the individuals were erased, they were not, but that the circle is absent from the consolidated account even though its members are not absent from the public record. Grassinger teaches independently and is not in the IHDS register; Reikl-Wolf teaches the advanced program inside the IHDS; Lessmann runs an independent association; Sendler maintains the archive. The foundational work was distributed among them and others, and the distribution is documented. The single-founder, single-school narrative does not require erasing these people. It requires only that the multiplicity they represent goes unmentioned, that a circle be remembered as a point. The persistence of the circle, in the public record and in one case within the institution itself, is the evidence that the point was always a circle.