Carl Lindenberg

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Carl Lindenberg around 1910

Carl Lindenberg (born May 1, 1850 in Wittenberge , † July 13, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and one of the most important German philatelists . He was an outstanding writer in the field of philately and his specialty was postal stationery . The " Lindenberg Medal " is named after him.

Life

Lindenberg came from an old Prussian family of officials and officers. He was born as the son of a tax council of the Prussian financial administration Johann Karl Heinrich Gottlieb Lindenberg (1819–1877) and his mother Henrietha Betty, née Mödinger (1817–1881). Lindenberg's passion for collecting began when he was seven years old. At the age of 17 he already had 1,400 different postage stamps in his collection and he was already collecting postal stationery. He spent his youth in Wittenberge, Berlin and Breslau. From 1869 he studied law in Breslau . From August 1870, he did a voluntary military year and then continued his studies in Berlin. In the military he was not at the front, but was assigned to guard French prisoners of war. As a lawyer, he worked in different places as district judge, district judge, district court director and as president of the higher regional court in Poznan . In 1913 he was even considered a candidate for the post of Prussian Minister of Justice. From the age of 20 he wrote articles for philatelic journals, in particular for the Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung , Senfs Illustrierter Briefmarken-Journal and "Mitteilungen des Berliner Philatelisten-Klubs", sometimes with the pseudonym "DR" or "D. Judge ". He was also the editor of the magazine “Der Deutsche Philatelist”.

He was an adviser to the board of trustees of the Berlin Reichspostmuseum , a position he assumed in 1884 instead of his uncle, the secret chancellery Julius Mödinger, who had died in 1883 and was already an expert there. At the Reichspostmuseum he was responsible for expanding the philatelic collection. While working for the museum, he gave up his own collection. He ended this activity in 1899 after the death of Heinrich von Stephan , because it no longer had the necessary support in the museum, but he took it on again for a short time between 1918 and 1919. In the meantime he started again with his own postal stationery collection through several large purchases, in particular through the purchase of the collection of the district judge Fränkel. In 1888 he was involved in founding the "Berlin Philatelist Club" and was its first chairman until December 31, 1902. He gave up the chair because he was leaving Berlin for professional reasons at the time.

Together with his collector friend Franz Kalckhoff, he uncovered the case of the forger Georges Fouré . The two collector colleagues were working on a literary work on postal stationery when unknown collector's items came to light.

Lindenberg had a huge postal stationery collection and a large philatelic book collection. He sold both collections to the Petschek brothers around the age of 75 . After his death, the well-known stamp dealer Philipp Kosack published a detailed obituary in his "Berliner Briefmarken-Zeitung" issue 7 of July 31 of the same year.

Private life

Lindenberg was married twice, his first wife Ottilie, née Boy, died in 1916. The first marriage resulted in two daughters and two sons. His son Paul Lindenberg was just like his father an author in the field of philately. The second marriage with Ellen, nee Bacmeister, had two daughters Renate (* 1920) and Maria (* 1921).

Works

  • Great manual of philately. Delivery 4 to 20
  • Catalog of the stamps of the Reichspostmuseum
  • The envelopes of the German states. from 1892 to 1895
  • The postage stamps from Baden. 1894
  • Postal stationery catalog from the Senf Brothers publishing house . 1911
  • The Petschek Brothers' postal stationery collection , Volume 1 (A to L)

Awards and honors

  • 1895 honorary member of the Braunschweig Stamp Collectors Association
  • 1895 honorary member of the Bavarian Philatelist Association in Munich
  • 1898 honorary chairman of the Berlin Philatelic Club
  • 1904 honorary member of the Berlin postal stationery collectors' association from 1901 e. V.
  • 1905 Foundation of the "Lindenberg Medal" of the Berlin Philatelist Club in his honor
  • 1922 silver association medal of the “First Patriotic Association of Stamp Collectors”, Budapest
  • 1926 honorary member of the IPHV Berlin
  • 1928 Austrian association medal
  • 1969 Postage stamp from the Principality of Liechtenstein from the phrase "Pioneers of Philately" with a portrait of him ( Michel no . 512)

literature

  • Carlrichard Brühl: History of Philately. Volume 2, Olms, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-487-07618-7 , pages 937-943
  • Horst Hille: Philately pioneers. Verlag Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 1995, ISBN 3-928277-17-0 , pages 7 to 11
  • Germany's first philatelist. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung , No. 4/1920 of April 26, 1920, pages 49 to 51 (title topic)
  • F. Steinwasser: A life for philately. In: Briefmarkenspiegel , No. 12/1992, pages 140 to 143
  • Wolfgang Maassen (Ed.): Who is who in philately? A lexicon of well-known philatelists of the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Verlag Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 1999, ISBN 3-932198-32-8 , page 121
  • Wolfgang Maassen: Who is who in philately? , Volume 3, I – L, Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal, 3rd edition, 2020, ISBN 978-3-932198-97-7 , pp. 254-264
  • The archive issue 1/2010, p. 30 f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lindenberg, Carl. In: Wolfgang Maassen (Ed.): Who is who in philately? A lexicon of well-known philatelists of the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Verlag Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 1999, ISBN 3-932198-32-8 , page 121
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Germany's first philatelist. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung , No. 4/1920 of April 26, 1920, pages 49 to 51 (title topic)
  3. ↑ a b c d Michael Ullrich: News about Carl Lindenberg. In: philately issue no.414, December 2011, pages 59 to 61
  4. ↑ a b Carlrichard Brühl: History of Philately. Volume 2, Olms, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-487-07618-7 , page 937 ff
  5. ^ A b Franz Kalckhoff: How I saw Carl Lindenberg. , new episode no. 8 of the association magazine of the Berlin Philatelic Club from May 1, 1950, on the occasion of Lindenberg's 100th birthday
  6. ↑ Mödinger, Julius. In: Wolfgang Maassen (Ed.): Who is who in philately? A lexicon of well-known philatelists of the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Verlag Phil Creativ, Schwalmtal 1999, ISBN 3-932198-32-8 , page 140
  7. ↑ a b History of the Berlin Philatelic Club. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
  8. ↑ Dr. Carl Lindenberg. ( Memento from June 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Prignitz-Lexikon. Retrieved August 2, 2010.
  9. ^ A b Winfried Leist, Netphen: The fate of the library Lindenberg. In: The postal stationery. Joint magazine of the Berlin postal stationery collectors' association from 1901 e. V., of the Munich postal stationery collectors' association 1912 e. V. and the postal stationery working group in the BDPh. e. V., edition 1/2010, p. 9 f; the same article was also reprinted in: The Philatelic Journalist of the AIJP, No. 136, March 2012, p. 33 f (with source reference to, among others: philately No. 337 and No. 338 from 2005)
  10. ↑ F. Steinwasser: A life for philately. In: Briefmarkenspiegel , No. 12/1992, pages 140 to 143
personal data
SURNAME Lindenberg, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and philatelist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1928
Place of death Berlin