- Gunter Sachs
Infobox Person
name = Gunter Sachs
birth_date = birth date and age|1932|11|14
birth_place =Schloss Mainberg nr.Schweinfurt ,Bavaria ,Germany
spouse = Annemarie Faure (1956-1958)Brigitte Bardot (1966-1969)
Mirja Larsson (1969-)Fritz Gunter Sachs (born
November 14 1932 in Mainberg nearSchweinfurt ) is a German mathematician, photographer and multi-millionaire industrialist. He was a coheir of Fichtel & Sachs. His father Willy Sachs was a good friend of Heinrich Himmler andHermann Göring . As other german industrialist heirs Gunter Sachs never discusses his family's enmeshments to the Nazi leaders.Sachs is a millionaire playboy who was married to
Brigitte Bardot from 1966–1969. He is now married to Swedish former model, Mirja Larsson. A trained mathematician and economist, Sachs was an investor and industrialist, and latterly as head of an institute that researches the claims ofastrology . As a young man he became asportsman , then gained international fame as a documentaryfilm-maker and documentaryphotographer . He has always been "passionately interested" inastrology and its connection withmathematics /statistics .port
Since 1969, Sachs has been chair of the
St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club. Turn 12 of theSt. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun is named in his honor.Astrological research
More recently Sachs made the international newspapers again after he commissioned major research into
sun sign astrology using large samples, and came up with results that overturnedFact|date=February 2008 some prejudices. Sachs set out to test the assumptions ofastrologers by gathering a team ofscientists andstatisticians which, over two years, analysed the lives of nearly one million men and women."In every case, there were significant results, way beyond what is explicable through mere coincidence." he is quoted as saying by the
Daily Mail newspaper onNovember 6 ,1997 .To facilitate the research he set up the "Institute for the Empirical and Mathematical Examination of the Possible Truth of Astrology in Relation to Human Behaviour". Then, using established statistical techniques and with help from the official statistics office in
Switzerland (where the authorities have recorded the date and hour of birth of every citizen since1875 ), his team gatheredstatistics on every aspect of human life.achs' rules
*The team was to start with no assumptions at all.
*The study must be based exclusively on empirical data.
*Astrologers were not to be consulted.
*The results were to be independently controlled.Once the data was compiled he brought in a German research expert and two
statisticians , who checked the figures for distortions. The team's extraordinary findings on thousands of topics can be seen in his book "The Astrology File", a bestseller published inGermany in 1997.Sachs was also very surprised to discover that no
government ,institution , oruniversity had ever put up the money for basic astrological research. He said that his investigation had cost "less than the price of a luxury car", and contrasted this with the millions squandered around the world byscientists "every day" on what he called "scientific trivialities."Criticism
After the preliminary research was published in various articles, Sachs was surprised to receive what he felt was "torrents of abuse and insults" from a number of academics. For example statistician
Herbert Basler claimed he had found an abundance of statistical errors in the way the data was interpreted. PsychologistSuitbert Ertel echoed this criticism, but also pointed out that as all the data is tabulated, this would allow the data to be re-analysed in due course by improved methods.References
*Sachs, Gunter: "The Astrology File: Scientific Proof of the Link Between Star Signs and Human Behaviour". Orion Books (December 1999). ISBN 0-7528-1789-2
*Elwell, Dennis: "Cosmic Loom", 2nd edition 1999. The Urania Trust. ISBN 0-04-133027-7. Discussion and interpretation of some of Gunter Sachs results and related material.External links
*http://www.guntersachs.ch/ de icon
*http://www.gunter-sachs.de de icon
*http://www.astrology-and-science.comPersondata
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DATE OF BIRTH=14 November 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH=Mainberg nearSchweinfurt
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