ALBANIA - Old News, Looking for New Data
Beverly Rice
http://www.xenu.org/factnet/AFF/FILES/CO0494/CO0494.TXT
Scientology is undertaking a major move into Albania through
German industrialist Gerhard Haag Ende, a Scientologist, who
plans a fully stocked merchandising center to be managed through
“Scientology Technology,” according to Michael Linkersdorfer
in IG-Metallzeitung (No. 23, 11/12/93).
As revealed in an Albanian TV program, Ende and his Scientology
associates promise to lead the country to prosperity using
the “management technology” developed by Scientology founder
L. Ron Hubbard. They said they had the cooperation of relevant
Albanian government ministries. A report on the “project” by
a Bavarian TV magazine late last year stimulated visits by
other reporters who found in the Tirana library piles of Hubbard
books but almost no other Western ones.
Ende had also organized
Scientology courses at the University, for students, professors,
and civil servants, and sent two Albanians to England for 3
months' training, “doubtless to St. Hill Manor, the Scientology
center.” The German embassy considered Ende—who has friends
and colleagues in the German Parliament—a serious investor
in Albania's future, and welcomed him. His plans include economic
development projects—newspapers, agriculture, tourism, banking,
and more—in the Western Balkans.
Ende's own German-based industrial growth—purportedly using
Scientology practices — ran into problems late last year, even
while working on the Albanian project, during his negotiations
to buy a former East German company from the Krupp conglomerate.
A business consultant revealed at a press conference the nature
of Ende's Scientology-based business practices, such as the
keeping of “ethics files” on employees (these include details
of intimate personal as well as professional lives). The story
was covered widely in the press and the sale was annulled by
the bankers involved. (“From Clean Sweep in Albania: Will Albania
Become the First Scientologist State?” Bulles, No. 41, 1994)
1. Anyone know what Mr. Gerhard Haag Ende is currently
up to?
2. Anyone know what became of the set up of "Hubbard Mgt."
technology and what organizations/businesses embraced
it?
ARC for Albania,
Beverly
Tilman Hausherr
in <3970B0...@ao.net>:
>1. Anyone know what Mr. Gerhard Haag Ende is currently
> up to?
>2. Anyone know what became of the set up of "Hubbard Mgt."
> technology and what organizations/businesses embraced
> it?
Haag "moved" to Clearwater after the Albanian government told him that
he wasn't really welcome any more (Haag himself claimed in an interview
that the german government was behind this). His son died in a traffic
accident there. He moved to Ohio where he is "postulating" to make a
robotic parking. http://www.roboticparking.com and this one:
http://www.roboticparking.com/images/towerfull.JPG (isn't this
familiar?)
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Chris Owen
[snip]
>1. Anyone know what Mr. Gerhard Haag Ende is currently
> up to?
>
>2. Anyone know what became of the set up of "Hubbard Mgt."
> technology and what organizations/businesses embraced
> it?
>
>ARC for Albania,
The whole affair was a fiasco: the project collapsed when Albania fell
into anarchy in April 1997. The last I heard, legal action was being
pursued in the Albanian courts to recover hundreds of thousands of
dollars (ho ho - fat chance).
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