Arthur Ernst Glasewald

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Arthur Ernst Glasewald (born August 2, 1861 in Gößnitz ; † September 16, 1926 there ) was a philatelist and chronicler of his hometown. The Glasewald Medal for special services to research into private postal companies is named after him.

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Arthur Ernst Glasewald was the son of the master bookbinder Arthur Glasewald. He himself was originally a bookbinder by profession; later he was a stamp dealer. He started collecting stamps when he was seven years old. His father, who had traveled through Scandinavia for 10 years , provided him with a foundation. Further material came from his uncle living in the USA . After his apprenticeship as a bookbinder, he went to the roller mill in 1878 . Until 1882 he worked for the bookseller Löwenthal in Kassel , who offered large sheets of postage stamps for sale in his shop window. At Glasewald's initiative, the Cassel Philatelist Club was founded on November 17, 1881 , and from 1895 onwards it was called the Association for Postage Stamp Studies in Cassel . In 1880/81 he entered the bookstore in the evangelical club house (Löwental house) in Kassel, which had a stamp department and received boxes of stamps from all over the world for the mission of the Syrian orphanage in Jerusalem . In 1883 he started as the first trained stamp dealer at the then internationally important brand wholesaler Julius Goldner, from whom he soon separated because of the flood of reprints, especially on Helgoland , after he had previously given the impetus to found the Association for Postage Stamp Customers.

In 1885 he became managing director of HJ Dauth, the operator of a stationery shop with a stamp trade in Frankfurt am Main . Glasewald also took over the editing of the "Frankfurter Briefmarken-Zeitung". During this time he also took an active part in the club life of the Association for Postage Stamp Customer of 1878 Frankfurt am Main.

From March 15, 1886, he was an independent stamp dealer in Gößnitz and around 1900 became managing director of the Federal Testing Office for Philately . In a list of examiners of the Bund Deutscher und Österr. Philatelic associations from the year 1897, he is already shown as a general auditor, but also as a special auditor for Baden , South Bulgaria, Greece and Thurn & Taxis.

He is considered an important philatelist with a wide field of activity and great charisma. As a fighter against counterfeiting - he was repeatedly called in as a judicial expert - he helped formulate the terms so that things could be called by their names. Glasewald was the first to suggest the issue of charity stamps to alleviate hardship; Collector since childhood, handed over his stamp business to his son in 1922, devoted himself to only stamp testing and the management of the German Philatelist Association.

Awards

literature

  • Wolfgang Maassen: Who is who in philately? , Volume 2, E – H, Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal, 3rd edition, 2017, ISBN 978-3-932198-96-0 , pp. 182-186

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ whoiswho. (No longer available online.) In: www.bdph.de. Archived from the original on December 8, 2016 ; Retrieved December 8, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bdph.de
  2. ^ AE Glasewald. "Chronik der Stadt Gößnitz", commission publishing house of A. Glasewalds Buchhandlung Gößnitz, 1910
  3. ^ The Glasewald Medal 2016 , accessed on December 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Glasewald, Arthur Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Philatelist and chronicler of the city of Gößnitz
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Gößnitz (Thuringia) , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1926
Place of death Gößnitz (Thuringia) , Germany