45 years after his last visit in Belgrade Dr. Schuster was invited for a speech on the 1st Geodetic Congress in Belgrade.

At that time, 1966, whole Yugoslawia was rejoicing the certainty of its special way to socialism. The hospitality and many discussions are an enjoyable retrospective. Today, the big interest of all guests of the congress was astounding. We felt to be back in the 90ies in Eastern Germany.

The geodetic community in Serbia is still a well formatted society, the societal changes have not yet taken place. That could be seen also in the topic of real estate evaluation. The leading heads seem to tend to the Swedish mass evaluation instead of the democratically based and decentralized German Standardized Market Values system. But this is perhaps a question of transition.