CURRICULUM VITAE (long private version) - January 2007
Peter Hesse, Diplom-Kaufmann, Honorary Consul Republic of Island
Born on April 5, 1937 in Port Chester, New York, from German parents.
(Was) moved to Germany at 3 months of age.
After the war and a primary-school year in Geneva:
Schule Schloss SALEM (private country-school) + one year Phillips Academy ANDOVER.
Studies in Business Administration and Economics, University of Munich, Germany.
After end of formal studies (Dipl.-Kfm. 1963) further training in Germany and England to become Marketing-, Management- and Creativity-Trainer - parallel to practical learning in family-business (H. Schmincke & Co., manufacturers of artists' colours since 1881).
Seminar-specialization in GRID group-dynamics and SYNECTICS creativity-training.
1966-1968 Regional president of Germany's Young Presidents' Organization (Bundesverband Junger Unternehmer - BJU) - (main activity: Testing of new/modern management-seminars).
1969 Founder of "Komitee für Managementbildung in Europa" (Committee for Management- Education in Europe) - a group of 163 mostly young professionals trying to modernize formal management-education in Europe, mainly in Germany - resulting in the development of a Management-Education Concept (4 stages: School / University / Postgraduate / Lifelong).
Until 1970 Marketing-, Management- and Creativity-Trainer in German industry and in educational institutions - parallel to marketing-work in "Schmincke"- family business.
1971-1998 President/CEO of "Schmincke"- factory. (1999 retired to Consultant status).
1974 Co-Founder of "Deutsche Management Gesellschaft" (German Management Society).
1974 (until 1983) Trainer in "fair Dialectics", group-activities and political subjects for the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) of Germany in Düsseldorf.
1975/76 Candidate for Federal Parliament in the Christian Democratic Party (narrow miss).
Since that time various political CDU-posts, -engagements and initiatives on a local and national level, especially in the field of ONE-world development. Since 1984 Member of the Federal CDU Development Commission - since 2003 including human rights.
1978-1987 Chairman of regional Employers' Association of the Chemical Industry.
Since 1978 member of the board of the regional Umbrella-Organization of all mayor
Employers' Associations ("Unternehmerschaft Düsseldorf"). 1993 Vice-President.
From 2001 until April 2003 President.
Since 1981 Poverty-fighting activities in Haiti. Initially Seminars in Project Management, later mainly Early Childhood Development through Montessori Teacher Training and help to open Montessori-preschools for deprived children in Haiti.
1983 Establishment of the "Peter Hesse Foundation SOLIDARITY IN PARTNERSHIP for ONE world". 1988 formal foundation of a sister-organisation in Haiti (same name).
1988 Co-creation of German association "ONE world for ALL" (EINE WELT FÜR ALLE).
Since 1988 only part-time (half of year) in family-business.
1989 First "mystical" experiences (guiding messages received in meditative states of mind).
Since 1990 global activity for consciousness-building + promoting early and basic education.
Since 1991 Honorary Consul of the Republic of Iceland.
1992 Foundation: INITIATIVE PRESCHOOL EDUCATION for children in ONE world.
1993-1998 Member of SOCIAL VENTURE NETWORK EUROPE.
1994-2001 elected Chairman of "PARITÄT International", a network of German NGOs, working in ONE-world development.
Since 1995 active participation in international conferences like
- UN Social Summit in Copenhagen (publication of three "SUGGESTIONS FOR ONE WORLD DEVELOMENT")
- UNICEF and IFCW Children's Conferences
- UN-Mid-Decade-Review EDUCATION FOR ALL, Amman, Jordan
- STATE OF THE WORLD FORUM, San Francisco ( organizing and convening
roundtables on global EDUCATION in 1995 and 1996).
1996 Bypass-heart-operation - followed by decision to quit the family-business and concentrate on ONE-world work, especially for children.
1997 following 60th birthday - starting to work on book "From VISION to REALITY".
End of 1998 hand-over of "Schmincke"-Presidency to successor from outside the family.
1998 Member of the INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES (IONS), in California, USA,
1999 Initiating regional (Düsseldorf + Neuss) IONS Community Group: NE-D-IONS.
1999 Publication of book "From VISION to REALITY" (Von der Vision zur Wirklichkeit).
2000 Concentration on international work - mainly for the promotion of high quality
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT/EDUCATION - mainly through work with
- The World Bank, Washington, DC (Introduction of Haiti Montessori Project into
the World Bank-Conference "INVESTING IN OUR CHILDRENS' FUTURE"),
- UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services) Conference AID & TRADE, N.Y.,
- EXPO 2000 - as a Registered Project "EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION" of the World Exposition, Germany, displayed in the EXPO"basic-needs" thematic area,
- EXPO 2000 Global Dialogues on Fighting Poverty and on Building Learning Societies.
Since 4. May, 2000: "NGO in SPECIAL CONSULTATIVE STATUS with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations - ECOSOC". Later in 2000 member of CONGO.
2001-2003 International conferences - mainly for ECD (Early Childhood Development).
German representative of the WORLD FORUM ON EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION.
2003 Co-writing and publishing book "On the way to a Jesus of today".
Since 2002 participation in the "World Social Forum" in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Mumbai, India and Nairobi, Kenya. Since 2003 offering various workshops in the World Social Fora.
Since 2003 German "Delphic Council" and "Creative Member" of the "Club of Budapest". Engagement in the "Global Marshallplan"- Initiative for a peaceful "world in balance" and in NGO-work for a transparent, democratic and participatory reform of the United Nations.
Since end of 2004 work on book "Effective application of funds for global development".
Since 2005 second residence in Annecy, France, to concentrate on work for "ONE world in diversity" - partly connected to the United Nations in Geneva through CONGO membership.
Representing (until 2006) International Forum for Child Welfare (IFCW) at the UN Geneva.
2006 New book on 25 years of engagement in Haiti by Irene Dänzer-Vanotti and publication of the book "SOLIDARITÄT die ankommt" (effective development funding) for the Global Marshallplan Initiative.
A VISION FOR A BETTER WORLD
People who are engaged in peaceful global change and improvement, in qualitative growth, need visions. Such visions extend beyond the immediate political reality; beyond what is needed immediately. - A vision is not an action-plan. It must pass through a management-process of ("force-field"-) analysis to become a goal. It then needs data, time-limits and responsibilities (names) to become an objective. From there, an action-plan may be developed. But all starts with a vision. Such visions should be wide, deep and holistic: "ONE world in diversity" could be such a vision.
"ONE in diversity" is a fact, a truth - yet to be recognized. It is an unrealised reality.
All creation is interlinked, is interconnected - yet we humans are not yet fully conscious of this truthful reality - and we do not yet behave accordingly. The challenge of our times is to develop a structure which combines the basic truth of "ONEness of all" with all our natural, individual and cultural diversity. To administer/govern the global aspects of our diverse ONEness, we need an organisation which basically already exists as a structural framework - with high hopes and aspirations - but with yet insufficiently functioning reality: The UNITED NATIONS. Therefore, a reformed UN is a vision. Peter Hesse's personal key vision concerns children's development . His more general vision follows here and can also been downloaded as his "Key Vision" on one pdf-Format page.
Basic Vision of a life in ONE world in diversity. - (Priority to basic education.)
Conscious that all is interconnected through the inner nucleus of all that exists through an all encompassing divine SPIRIT, we human beings have the freedom and face a challenge to co-create a balance which
Preconditions for the freedom to co-create a balance between those three factors are a relevant consciousness and the possibility to obtain/learn the competences which are needed to actively take part in the whole system. Such competences grow under the influence of loving parents and of conscious early childhood development, followed by good basic education which recognises and promotes the human predisposition in its variety.
It's the duty of society to create a safe juridical framework and provide the starting chances for the individual development of all human beings in the framework of their relevant culture - but without enforcing the maintenance of grown cultural boundaries. This means: The cultural framework is to be respected, but in and for an open society human beings must be protected from dogmatic cultural restraints.
The collective responsibility of society for the shaping of the path of life and for the related "success" of the individual ends with the age when he/she can individually make use of his/her earlier acquired capabilities in the framework of the structures where he/she lives - therefore after a period of high quality early and basic education. Continuing higher and specializing education could and should be created and (co-)financed by those sections of society who also have an interest in such specialization. This does not exclude publicly supported higher education of general interest for society. In principle, every human being is, however, self-responsible - provided he/she had a chance to acquire needed intellectual capabilities to be free to structure his/her life.
There remains, however, a collective responsibility in solidarity for a dignified life towards those people who were not able to acquire the capabilities needed for their individual shaping of their path of life, due to circumstances beyond their power, i.e. illness or other ill fate.
It depends on a democratic decision process of the respective social (state-) structure to what extent there should be a publicly financed basic safety-net for old age and illness. In this decision-process, subsidiarity and transparency are the guiding principles.
As long as framework-conditions which are needed for the individual development and the covering of risks are not yet created and producing results - especially as long as there is no high quality early- and basic-education system accessible for everyone - a synthesis of individual and collective solidarity for a dignified life of all human beings is unavoidable.
Key Vision
of Peter Hesse's work is:
Children in ONE world must get a chance
to freely develop in a holistic way
through love, best possible care
and high quality early childhood education
as well as through appropriate quality-learning
in the respective cultural framework.
The right to develop is a basic right.
