Association of Philatelic Auditors

Association of Philatelic Examiners ; (BPP)
purpose	Philately, verification of authenticity
President:	Christian E. Geigle
Establishment date:	1958
Seat :	Munich
Website:	www.bpp.de

The Bund Philatelistischer Prüfer eV (BPP) is a German association of postage stamp examiners, i.e. experts in checking philatelic collective goods ( postage stamp , postal stationery , whole piece , letter piece , etc.).

history

In February 1957, Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Quantity established a “Bund Philatelistic Examiner eV” in Düsseldorf. The association that exists today succeeded it and was founded in December 1958. Functionaries of the Bund Deutscher Philatelisten eV (BDPh) , u. a. its then chairman consul Hermann Deninger .

After a number of grievances were complained about in the 1960s, a reform was introduced from around 1970.

In 1990, 33 examiners from the area of the former GDR were added, which significantly increased the coverage of previously unavailable test areas.

In 1993, forgery-proof certificate and report forms were introduced, and in 1994 the acceptance of publicly sworn experts appointed by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce began . The code of honor was introduced in 2000, followed by codified testing standards in 2001 and new testing regulations in 2003.

Since 2006 the BPP has expanded its cooperation with the Austrian auditors 'association VÖB and the Swiss auditors' association SBPV.

In 2008, the association published a four-volume series of publications on the history of German testing, which was awarded the winner's prize and a gold medal at the “London 2010 International Stamp Exhibition”.

tester

As of 2016, the following resulted for the members:

Active examiners: 103 thereof approx. 90% part-time (2013: 106)
Senior members: 16 (2013: 12)
Publicly appointed and sworn experts: 11 (2013: 12).

exam

As of 2013, the number of tests was as follows:

Certificates per year: 30,000
Number of short reports per year: approx. 50,000

The quality, duration and costs of processing are repeatedly criticized by customers and internally by auditors.

Brief report with a photo of the checked stamp	Certificate with a photo of the stamp that has been checked

Association management

year	1st chairman or president
1958–1962	Wilhelm Hofinger (1st chairman)
1963-1990	Arno Debo (1st Chairman, President from 1987)
1990-1999	Günter Bechtold (President)
1999-2011	Hans-Karl Penning (President)
2011–	Christian Geigle (President)

literature

Penning, Oechsner: 50 years of the Bund Philatelic Examiner 1958-2008. Publisher: Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 2008, ISBN 3-932-19880-8 .
Berndt, Torsten: How do you become a BPP auditor? (pdf) Conversation with Christian Geigle and Dr. Hans-Karl Penning. Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung (DBZ / se), accessed on January 27, 2015 (PDF with the three articles from issues 2, 3 and 4/2013, download from the BPP website).

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

↑ Penning, Oechsner: 50 years of the Bund Philatelistic Examiner 1958-2008 , p. 21
↑ The examining ship in heavy seas. In: www.bpp.de. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
↑ Penning, Oechsner: 50 years of the Bund Philatelistic Examiner 1958-2008 , p. 77
↑ ^a ^b Maassen, Wolfgang: Make two out of one: successful BPP conference in the Boner House of Philately and Postal History . In: philately . tape 64 , no. 418 , 2012, ISSN 1619-5892 , pp. 25 .
^ The series of publications of the BPP. Association of Philatelic Examiners, accessed on February 16, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Berndt, Torsten: How do you become a BPP examiner? (pdf) Conversation with Christian Geigle and Dr. Hans-Karl Penning. Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung (DBZ / se), accessed on January 27, 2015 (PDF with the three articles from issues 2, 3 and 4/2013, download from the BPP website).
↑ Maassen, Wolfgang : Auctioneers in the BDB are looking for dialogue and customer proximity . In: philately . tape 63 , no. 410 , 2011, ISSN 1619-5892 , p. 14 (Quote: "[...] His guests [...] he wrote his wishes in the" prayer book ": Faster test times for individual testers, more moderate test costs for extensive or particularly valuable orders and many other things. Rauhut and his colleagues found it easy to argue from a secure position here, as they are not only the biggest "customer" of the members of the auditors' association, but are also able to prove existing problems up to and including individual cases with horses and riders. [.. .] "(Harald Rauhut is 2011 President of the Bund Deutscher Briefmarkenversteigerer BDB)).
↑ Maassen, Wolfgang: BPP conference in Nuremberg: a successful mix of continuity, growth and innovation . In: philately . tape 64 , no. 421 , 2012, ISSN 1619-5892 , pp. 59 (Quote: "[...] Test times that are too long if test customers are not notified, old certificates are simply retained, inadmissible labeling of submitted expertise or even the wild thing in foreign test areas, were just some of these points that the listeners [... ] certainly not new, rather familiar. [...] "(the author reports on the speech by the President of the BPP, Christian Geigle)).
↑ Penning, Oechsner: 50 years of the Bund Philatelistic Examiner 1958-2008 , p. 186 f
↑ Penning, Oechsner: 50 years of the Bund Philatelistic Examiner 1958-2008 , p. 165
↑ Election of the new president ( memento of January 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 13, 2015

[1] Penning, Oechsner: 50 years of the Bund Philatelistic Examiner 1958-2008 , p. 21

[2] The examining ship in heavy seas. In: www.bpp.de. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .

[3] Penning, Oechsner: 50 years of the Bund Philatelistic Examiner 1958-2008 , p. 77

[philatelie418-25-4] Maassen, Wolfgang: Make two out of one: successful BPP conference in the Boner House of Philately and Postal History . In: philately . tape 64 , no. 418 , 2012, ISSN 1619-5892 , pp. 25 .

[5] The series of publications of the BPP. Association of Philatelic Examiners, accessed on February 16, 2015 .

[DBZ2-4/13-6] Berndt, Torsten: How do you become a BPP examiner? (pdf) Conversation with Christian Geigle and Dr. Hans-Karl Penning. Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung (DBZ / se), accessed on January 27, 2015 (PDF with the three articles from issues 2, 3 and 4/2013, download from the BPP website).

[philatelie410-57-7] Maassen, Wolfgang : Auctioneers in the BDB are looking for dialogue and customer proximity . In: philately . tape 63 , no. 410 , 2011, ISSN 1619-5892 , p. 14 (Quote: "[...] His guests [...] he wrote his wishes in the" prayer book ": Faster test times for individual testers, more moderate test costs for extensive or particularly valuable orders and many other things. Rauhut and his colleagues found it easy to argue from a secure position here, as they are not only the biggest "customer" of the members of the auditors' association, but are also able to prove existing problems up to and including individual cases with horses and riders. [.. .] "(Harald Rauhut is 2011 President of the Bund Deutscher Briefmarkenversteigerer BDB)).

[philatelie421-59-8] Maassen, Wolfgang: BPP conference in Nuremberg: a successful mix of continuity, growth and innovation . In: philately . tape 64 , no. 421 , 2012, ISSN 1619-5892 , pp. 59 (Quote: "[...] Test times that are too long if test customers are not notified, old certificates are simply retained, inadmissible labeling of submitted expertise or even the wild thing in foreign test areas, were just some of these points that the listeners [... ] certainly not new, rather familiar. [...] "(the author reports on the speech by the President of the BPP, Christian Geigle)).

[9] Penning, Oechsner: 50 years of the Bund Philatelistic Examiner 1958-2008 , p. 186 f

[10] Penning, Oechsner: 50 years of the Bund Philatelistic Examiner 1958-2008 , p. 165

[11] Election of the new president ( memento of January 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 13, 2015