![]() ![]() ![]() While in his addition to his work on the technical realization of space exploration, Ehricke was a prolific author also on the political and social aspect of this entire process over decades, he made a special effort at the end of the 1960s to elaborate his concept of the "extraterrestrial imperative" further, he gave interviews, speeches, writing articles and books. Ehricke was always guided by the question: where will we live in 50 years, in 100 years from now? Focusing human creativity on the realization of this vision would finally unify all peoples and nations, mankind would finally become mature. The first speaker, Marsha Freeman, science editor of EIR and biographer of Krafft Ehricke, spoke on his "extraterrestrial imperative" which laid out a vision for a human civilization that would finally be liberated from wars and poverty and make use of man's creativity the potential of which is unlimited.Įhricke's commitment to space exploration as the venue for this new paradigm was sparked by Fritz Lang's 1929 movie "Frau im Mond" (The Woman on the Moon) which he saw in at the age of 12, and during the early 1930s he wrote short fiction pieces portraying how human civilization had changed in the course of space exploration and colonization, as seen from a date in the future. ![]() The theme of the event was "Krafft Ehricke's Vision for the Future of Mankind" placing his work for a new paradigm of human existence in the context of the present-day effort of the New Silk Road.Īfter remarks of welcome by Werner Zuse of the board of the Fusion Energy Forum, who particularly welcomed Lyndon LaRouche who was attending the conference, three artists (Diana Milewa, soprano Roland Albrecht, baritone Elena Arnovskaya, pianist) who also performed again after the first break, introduced the event with three pieces (Josef Haydn: "Nun scheint in vollem Glanze der Himmel," aria from The Creation two songs by Franz Schubert: An die Musik Fruehlingssehnsucht). An audience of 130 gathered at the Sheraton Arabella Park hotel in Munich, March 25, for a one-day conference organized by the Fusion Energy Forum and the Schiller Institute on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the German-American space pioneer Krafft Ehricke. ![]()
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