From: Anonymous Subject: Andreas Ostertag, part 2 (by Martin Ottmann) Date: 07 Sep 1996 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <199609070809.KAA11359@basement.replay.com> x-mail2news-path: basement.replay.com x-nntp-posting-host: basement.replay.com xcomm: Report misuse of this automated service to organization: Replay and Company UnLimited newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology (repost because news gateway deleted 8bit characters) 29 August 1996 ANDREAS OSTERTAG, PART 2 Some months ago I asked via the internet if anyone has informations about the death of the German Scientologist Andreas Ostertag. This is what I've found out in the meantime: A) Andreas Ostertag's Beginnings The Scientology-organization in Stuttgart, Germany, was founded on 7 October 1972 by Sybille Ostertag, the sister of Andreas and Martin Ostertag. It was registered as a non-profit-association, the "Dianetic Stuttgart e. V.". On 10 October 1974 Andreas Ostertag became the official "first chairman" of the "association", while internally he was the "Executive Director" of the "Scientology mission Stuttgart". In those days his brother Martin Ostertag became a spokesman for the "Scientology Church Germany" in Munich. In 1981 Ostertag wrote an official letter attached to the "Way To happiness"-brochure, which was distributed to priests of various churches. The texture of that letter sounds ironic if one keeps Ostertag's later fate in mind: B) Ostertag's Lament About The Morals in 1981 Dianetic Stuttgart e. V., Krefelder Str. 11, 7000 Stuttgart 50 Date: 10 Oct. 1981 Dear minister, ... It is a fact, that the world of today is stuck in a far too big potential of violent solutions, without having created a balance in the field of morals. Such an unbalance can have disastrous consequences. Materialism and mechanism push away the spiritual values and create through it a really dangerous situation. Man doesn't know moral values anymore during a time, when he is able to execute unlimited power. ... With best wishes DIANETIC STUTTGART e. V. [signature] A. Ostertag C) Bad Press In 1983 A critical article about the Scientology-organization, "Dianetic Stuttgart e. V.", was published in the local newspaper "Stuttgarter Zeitung" on 25 October 1983, page 19 with the title: "Residents want to turn out Scientologists". It mentioned an initiative of residents which lived in the neighbourhood of the Scientology-organization and who tried to get rid of the Scientologists. It also referred to the problems of the Scientologists with the city of Stuttgart being the owner of the building in the Krefelder Str. 11 and simultaneously the landlord of the Scientologists. An official of the office of real estates was cited, who declared: "If we are able to give (them) the notice, we will do it." The Scientologists had internal problems as well as the following Scientology-document shows. Some portions of it are unfortunately almost not understandable due to the bad German of the author. My own remarks are included in square brackets. D) The Eval Of Stuttgart Mission (Dianetic Stuttgart e. V.) in 1984 To: EXEC STRATA EXECUTION OFF from: EUS/ANZO PROGRAMS CHIEF FB regarding: Eval of the mission of Stuttgart SEA ORGANIZATION 12. 9. 84 IES ORDER INT MGMT SMI INT SMI EU FLEU NEP FOR DISSEMINATION TO THE STAFF ONLY WHEN EXEC POSTS ARE ESTABLISHED EVAL OF THE MISSION OF STUTTGART Policy: "Nothing in this eval may be interpreted so that HCO PLs or HCOBs will be violated or altered. Every person, who pursues a target by violating a HCO PL or HCOB is to be charged by a Comm Ev [Committee of Evidence]. Every recommendation in this eval or alteration of policy or tech must be clarified through the Watchdog Committee (WDC),[.] [B]efore it [the recommendation] will be laid down in this eval as target and from that resulting as a policy letter or a bulletin, it must personally be examined by the founder. All data or handlings must, where they relate to policies or bulletins, name the policy or bulletin number, its quotes and the literal text." LRH (HCO PL 26. 12. 79) Execution of Evaluations HCO PL Finance Series 36. Exchange, Org Income and Staff Pay HCO PL Executive Council Network Expanded HCO PL Executive Council Network Disbanded - Ammended Every advice for the delivery for missions from 1979 HCO PL 14 March 82 Financial Irregularities Situation: The Tech Area of Stuttgart was allowed to divide itself up to a point, where the mission is completely out of exchange with its publics, which keeps the GI (Gross Income) down and worsens its solvency. Statistics: Advanced Payments - rising since April the 19th, now 53. Tech-Personnel - Danger on the 14th. Affluence broken on June 7th. 6 tech personnel got lost in the past 2 months. by statistics they changed tech staffs with admin. Or tech staff got lost. The number of tech personnel stayed level until July, when it went into Danger. The tech/admin ratio was in an unproportionate relation. Obviously the mission wasn't interested in delivery. -2- GBS [Gross Book Sales]: Started in Affluence in April. Broken on June the 28th Danger and practically now in Non-Existence. PS [Paid Starts]: Affluence since April broken on July 5th, currently Danger. Even the normal range of reported PS isn't visible in the statistics for the delivery. GI [Gross Income]: Affluence since April broken down on June 7th. Currently a normal but low range. CGI [Corrected Gross Income = GI - (repayments + bounced cheques + 10% management fees + RTC licence fees)]: in accordance with the above datum, is approaching zero for two months, after Affluence was broken as above. Just recently reverted. FP No. 1 [Financial Planning No. 1 = a one time per year calculated financial plan for the "ideal scene"]: almost 17,000 US Dollars per week!!!!! A very expensive mission! Very unrealistic financial planning. Cash: practically none. Obviously they don't believe in reserves? Bills: Rising. 160,000 Dollars reported by statistics. New investigations report 750,000 DM (this is around 375,000 Dollars). Treasury must be a madhouse. [HCO] Book Account: Insolvent. VSD [Value of Services Delivered]: Shortly started in Affluence on May 10th, breaks down on June 21st, very low range compared with GI and GBS. Repayments? Anyway, they aren't delivering anything worth a penny. currently in Danger up to 2,000 Dollars. WDAH [Well Done Auditing Hours]: Crashing since April 12th. [Currently] a 3 week Affluence [, the statistic] starts to recover by a rising purif-delivery. WDAH W/O [W/O = ?]: Crashing since beginning of February. Seems to coincide with the down-trend of the tech personnel. Lost auditors? The reports of the tech personnel are differing - probably falsified. STP [Student Points]: Affluence broken over the last 2 weeks. FSS [?]: Normal. PRPS [Public Registrar Paid Starts]: Normal since April 19th. Div 6 Completions [Completions of Scn-elementary courses]: Currently in Affluence, some blew from courses, although recently an improvement took place [sic!]. The mission owns SMI 30,000 Dollar on reserves because of bounced cheques on overseas accounts. Data: Recently an eval in the mission was executed and finished at the beginning of June. The eval was sent to SMI INT, and then a production telex was written and sent to the mission. The telex never really got to the mission execs and -3- [they] didn't comply with it. The eval [also] went to SMI EU, but, as reported, got ignored, as the staff didn't know what to do with it. The correction by the mission holder, like it was ordered in the eval, never took place. The eval stayed not executed und is now no longer applicable. Although in general most of the statistics start to recover since the mission holder returned from Flag, the mission [stays] insolvent and delivery isn't still recovered. OMITTED EVAL, ADDED TIME -SMI INT AND EU The last upward-trend of the statistics starts when CO SMI INT by-passes SMI EU and contacts via telephone directly the mission holder and pushes the targets of the analysis for the mission and uses these statistics to handle the production of the mission and to get the mission holder, Andreas Ostertag, to play the birthday game. He complies with it and starts to handle the production of his mission. The GI improves as well as the delivery and the solvency of the mission, although just gradually. CORRECT SOURCE, CORRECT TARGET - CO SMI INT CORRECT INCLUDED AGREEMENT - STUTTGART MISSION HOLDER In the mission statistics-meetings with the D/HCO Sec Uli [I suppose he means the D/HES, the Deputy/ HCO Executive Secretary, the junior of the HES] took place at night, where the targets of the birthday game were discussed [birthday game = a competition between missions, orgs and advanced orgs in honour to LRHs birthday on 13 March. The organizations are measured in this competition by their GDSes, their Gross Divisional Statistics, like GI, GBS or WDAH, etc. The birthday game starts and ends with LRHs birthday. It is also divided in quarters over the year.]. Uli wanted to collect the data about what's going on, out-points were noted and the areas divided and arranged who handles which area. The keyline (which was discovered in the previous eval) for this mission is the Comm-Course-line, where a person gets closely supervised and receives important wins, then advised by supervisor and registrars, who keep a very tight line regarding these publics, to sign them up for higher courses. This line was kept going by Achim at that time. The Comm-Course I/C [In Charge] worked closely together with the registrars. It existed also a line from Div. 2, which regged persons from the public and some kind of a special project (not known to the evaluator), which the ED [Executive Director] (Kay) and a registrar was working on [sic!]. The then HES (Name unknown) worked in Div 6 and made Div. 6 to sign up on the lines [sic!]. The mission holder went to Flag, but the stats were further up-trending with the above mentioned lines. With the rising GI, regardless of the big expenditure, per its FP No. 1 graph the solvency recovered. INCLUDED CORRECT PRODUCTION - MISSION HOLDER AND ED AND AFFECTED EXECS Another thing what was pushed during that time was that the mission holder pushed the 3. dyn. [dynamic], bypassing problems of the 1. dyn. and the 2 dyn.. The income of the mission was raised to handle debts of the mission and the staff, by selling books. 100 % control of the finances -4- will be maintained, without bounced cheques, by the sole use of cash. Also the birthday game was pushed by massive pressure on the staff. And it was expected, that all the stats are [sic!] up, including delivery. CORRECT TARGET - MISSION HOLDER Although the mission holder recently returned to the org and the GI started to turn around, the other stats, especially in the delivery-area, are still suffering under the broken Affluences. The recent evals reported a lot of noise in the mission with wild financial irregularities, false statistics, Out-2D [in general: non-marital intercourse] between the highest execs, musical chairs (frequent change of posts), admonishing creditors, who are screaming for attention and threatening to distrain upon the property of the mission. There were a lot of post-changes of key execs and staff since the Affluence period. The mission is [now] reduced to 1 - 2 auditors, per the new attached report and auditing-sales were prohibited by the Ex-ED Kay Barre, because the mission couldn't deliver it. FALSE TARGET, OMITTED ACTIONS - MISSION HOLDER INCORRECT INCLUDED OUT-ETHICS - KAY (ED) At those points [he obviously means "points on a statistic"], where the delivery-statistics start to take an upward-trend, 4 auditors are allowed to leave to mission, because they weren't contracted and had big debts, because of little or no pay during the last year (per the payrolls) even during the previous time with a high GI of the mission. CONFLICTING DATA- PAYROLLS If one investigates who gets paid, then [one will find out, that] those are involved who make the money, not the delivery personnel. The auditors, who aren't under a contract and [who] are discontented and [who] disseminate enemy lines of squirrel-groups, that the "prices are too high", are leaving, because they simply aren't being paid. If one compares the pay of an auditor with the pay of the mission holder - the mission holder gets 74,579.36 DM (reports say that half of it covers repayments of credits for Ostertag), while the OES [Org Executive Secretary] gets 2,705.00 DM and the auditor gets 3,115.72 DM. These are salaries, which were paid within a year. [Handwritten note:] The Treas[ury] Sec[retary] gets 14,669.95 [DM] during the same period. INCORRECT INCLUDING FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES - MISSION HOLDER, TREAS SEC OMITTED PAYMENT - TECH PERSONNEL If one investigates, why the mission simply didn't recruit und re-built its tech-area and reinforced the exchange, one finds out, that there exist little recruitment or staff-enhancement and it is reported that just 4 staff are hatted only. HCO is out-ethics and the execs above it are VERY out-ethics, with the attempts of the ethics officer to get in ethics and standard schedules and policy in that mission, who constantly get cross-orders by the mission holder and/or the -5- HES Kay Barre, who is only interested in GI and not in establishment or any other functions of the area under him. Organizationally the mission is a total mess with the Div 6 area in the center of the city, the delivery area in a building at one end of the city and Div 6 courses and other Div 6 activities at the other end of the city. Kilometers away in another building [sic!]. 2 of the buildings belong to the city, who gave the leases a notice because of bad press or non-payment of bills. OMISSIONS HCO-HES AND D/HCO SEC INCLUDING INCORRECT OUT-ETHICS OMITTED ORG FORM LINES ALTERED IN SEQUENCE - MISSION HOLDER, HES, D/HCO SEC Behind that scene, let alone the financial irregularities, which were hidden, exist out-2D between the top execs of the mission, constant shifting of accounts and illegal reg-cycles, public account-transfers with the use of debits, favours for those who are looked at as "upstat" by the ED without the enforcement of ethics. Out-ethics is protected with the false datum of the mission holder that a person would have been crazy to have out-ethics, if his stats are up (because, when they are upstat, they aren't out-ethics, no matter what crime was involved). The mission holder prefers to send "difficult" staff to Flag for auditing. The majority of these illegal things and policy actions can be isolated around HES Kay Barre, who has a 25cm thick ethics file, a time track with crimes, which includes theft, misappropriation, "shifting" of accounts, forwarding of uncovered cheques and transfers, violent assaults, brawls. The mission holder has no attention for that general out-ethics scene, as he has the opinion that he [Kay Barre] is upstat. TOTAL OUTPOINTS: FALSE TARGETS - 4 MISSION HOLDER (ANDREAS OSTERTAG) OMISSIONS - 2 - 10 INCORRECT INCLUDED DATA - 4 T/ED (NOW HES) KAY BARRE - 9 FALSE INFORMATIONS - 3 T/MISSION HOLDER (SIGGI) - 2 ALTERED SEQUENCE - 1 TREAS SEC - 1 CONFLICTING DATA - 3 FALSE SOURCES - 2 TOTAL PLUSPOINTS: CORRECT SOURCES - 1 CO SMI INT - 2 CORRECT TARGETS - 2 MISSION HOLDER - 3 CORRECT INCLUDED DATA - 2 T/ED AND STAFF - 1 THE WHY: ...[illegible] of off-policy-execs justify a system of criminal ..[illegible], which keeps the mission off delivery and recovery of solvency or real success. THE ETHICS WHY: -6- An organizational rang was used to follow false purposes and to justify financial irregularities, bad conduct of executives and squirrel-admin in connection with violations of registered marks of the church. WHO: KAY BARRE, HES STUTTGART, ANDREAS OSTERTAG, MISSION HOLDER IDEAL SCENE: STUTTGART MISSION ABLE TO KEEP UP AFFLUENCE WITH THE SUCCESSFUL MISSION-PROCUREMENTACTIONS AND PROPER DELIVERY-LINES WITH EXECS, WHO WORK ON-POLICY, APPLY STANDARD FINANCE-POLICY AND IN EXCHANGE WITH THEIR PUBLICS! Andrew Stevens Exec Strata SMI Evaluator Authorized by AVC EVAL AUTH INT for CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL BDCS:AVCI:ADS: E) Bad Press In 1985 On 26 March 1985 another critical article about the "Dianetic e. V." was published in the "Stuttgarter Zeitung": "Drawn like X-mas geese". An ex-member of Scientology came to word, who mentioned how she got manipulated by the Scientologists to pay several thousands of D-Mark for courses and auditing. The article also spoke about the repeated problems of the Scientologists to pay their rent, which had finally led to the notice of the tenancy agreement by the city of Stuttgart in 1984. Andreas Ostertag was mentioned too: "Insider say that the former head Andreas Ostertag 'was put on ethics' in the cult center in Florida/USA, which is a redefinition for mobilization of labour for punishment. The Munich cult-spokes woman Maria Stoffel denies that accusation: That has 'nothing to do with punishment', he probably went for advanced training to America, such an allegation could only be originated 'from the other side'". F) Ostertag's Death Andreas Ostertag obviously died in Clearwater in 1985. Nothing is really known about the circumstances of his death. Nevertheless he stayed registered as chairman of the "Dianetic Stuttgart e.V.", although he was dead, until 4 September 1987, when the "Director of Special Affairs" Jrgen Schwarz, became the official "first chairman" of the association. Martin Ottmann, Stuttgart, Germany