and shepherds and goatherds grazed their herds on the bare hilltop. HenriOedenkoven [de] and Ida Hofmann [de] followed the Gräser brothers' proposal to
whose visitors included Lenin and Trotsky. After collaborating with HenriOedenkoven who owned a sanitarium at Monte Verità, Ehret opened one sanitarium
tavern. Together with HenriOedenkoven (1875-1935) the son of the Antwerp industrialist Louis Oedenkoven), Ida Hofmann-Oedenkoven (1864-1926), her sister
at Monte Verità, a utopian commune near Ascona founded in 1900 by HenriOedenkoven and Ida Hofmann, which functioned as a center for the Progressive Underground
principles of Freiwirtschaft. Monte Verità Switzerland Ida Hofmann, HenriOedenkoven, Lotte Hattemer and Karl and Gustav Gräser 1899 or 1900 1940 Vegetarian