Alexander Strakosch

Alexander Strakosch (* 23 August 1879 in Brno, † 5 February 1958 in Dornach), railway engineer, anthroposophist and Waldorf teacher.

Life

Strakosch painted, drew and sculptured from the age of 15, but studied mechanical engineering, during which time he met Max Halbe and Frank Wedekind in Munich. He became an engineer for railway and hydraulic engineering. Not long after his marriage to Maria Giesler, a pupil of Kandinsky, he met Rudolf Steiner by chance in Berlin in 1908.

Strakosch's worldview was influenced by Ernst Haeckel, whose system clearly demonstrated to him the untenability of materialism. He became an advisor to the Johannesbauverein and a class teacher as well as a teacher of technology at the Stuttgart Waldorf school.

Works

• Lebenswege mit Rudolf Steiner. Erinnerungen