Eugen Rahnenführer

Eugen Rahnenführer (born August 13, 1886 in Herzberg (Elster) , † October 25, 1958 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German doctor and numismatist . He achieved particular merits in researching the Saxon tipper coins , about which he wrote several essays that are still valid today.

Life

On August 13, 1886, Eugen Rahnenführer was born in Herzberg (Elster) as the eldest son of the Prussian District Court Secretary Ferdinand Rahnenführer and his wife Friederike geb. Born willowy. He attended the citizen school in Herzberg, then the humanistic grammar schools in Halberstadt and Halle (Saale) , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1906. Then Eugen Rahnenführer studied art history and medicine in Halle and Munich . In 1912 he received the medical state examination in Halle and in 1913, after completing the medical internship, he received his license to practice medicine in Halle and Quiigart . In 1917 he became a Doctor of Medicine doctorate . He did his military service in 1909 and 1913, each with six months as a one-year volunteer and as a doctor. In 1915 Eugen married Rahnenführer.

After some time as a practicing doctor in the country, Rahnenführer was employed as an assistant doctor in the Saxon state sanatorium and nursing home in Hubertusburg in 1913 . From 1914 to 1918 he worked as a doctor in the field with the troops in Infantry Regiment 27 and in Pioneer Battalion 4 as a doctor and was discharged as senior doctor of the reserve at the end of the war. From 1919 to 1925 Eugen Rahnenführer worked as a psychiatrist at the Hubertusburg State Institute and was transferred to the Pirna-Sonnenstein State Institute in 1925 at his own request in order to be able to take the state medical examination as a district doctor. In 1929 he passed the state medical examination as a district doctor in Dresden and worked from 1931 to 1938 as senior medical advisor, the deputy director of the Waldheim state institute in Saxony.

In 1938 he was transferred to the state institute Großschweidnitz near Löbau , where he worked until 1940, due to his previous membership in the Freemason Lodge Friedrich August .

From 1940 to 1942 he then worked at the State Welfare Education Institute in Chemnitz-Altendorf . With the dissolution of this institution, Rahnführer was transferred to the state health department in Chemnitz-Land, where he was head of this health department and medical officer from 1945 to 1946. In 1946, Eugen Rahnenführer accepted a position at the Altscherbitz State Sanatorium as deputy director, which he then headed from July 1949.

In April 1951, Rahnenführer switched to the state polyclinic south in Halle as a specialist doctor.

In the twenties and thirties, Rahnenführer examined the tipper coins stored in the Dresden Coin Cabinet and recorded coins of this kind accessible to him from all other accessible locations. At the same time, he expanded his own collection, which he had taken over from his father. Rahnenführer arranged the tipper coins according to the most varied of criteria, such as the year of issue, the minting location (mint), the denomination and much more. Eugen Rahnenführer worked as a recognized expert on tipper coins for various authors. For example, he was involved in the work Handbuch der Münzkunde von Mittel- und Nordeuropa von Jesse and Gaettens, and together with W. Schwinkowski published various articles in Blätter für Münzfreunde [BfM], a journal for coin and medal science , and in the BfM, a monthly for coinage and coinage, organ of the Numismatic Society of Dresden and the Bavarian Numismatic Society . His main work The Electoral Saxon Kipper Coins was not printed until after his death and is considered the standard work on Saxon Kipper Coins . After the widow's death in 1961, the numismatic legacy of Eugen Rahnenführer went to the Dresden Münzkabinett.

Fonts (selection)

• Anatomical examination of three eyes with pure microphthalmos, along with remarks on lens hernias and cystoid degeneration of the retina. In: Albrecht von Graefes Archive for Ophthalmology. Vol. 92, No. 1, 1916 (1917), pp. 76-100, doi : 10.1007 / BF01857328 , (Halle, Universität, Dissertation, 1917).
• The tipper coin for Pirna. In: Sheets for Coin Friends . Vol. 65, 1930, pp. 133-135.
• with Walter Schwinkowski: The tipper mint in Chemnitz. In: Sheets for Coin Friends. Vol. 66, 1931, pp. 225-229.
• Were Wittenberg and Weißenfels kipper mints in the Electorate of Saxony? In: Sheets for Coin Friends. Vol. 68, 1933, pp. 641-643.
• The Saxon tipper mint in Lützen. In: Sheets for Coin Friends. Vol. 69, 1934, pp. 87-89.
• The Liebenwerda tipper mint. In: Sheets for Coin Friends. Vol. 70, 1935, pp. 360-365.
• Chemnitz as a mint. In the distress of the 30 Years War. In: The tower keeper of Chemnitz. Vol. 8, No. 1, 1942, ZDB -ID 530456-8 , pp. 13-16.
• The Electoral Saxon tipper coins (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. 9, ISSN  0070-7201 ). VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1963.

Honors

• 1956 cast medal on Rahnführer , issued by Leipziger Münzfreunde on the occasion of his 70th birthday
• 1981 Cast medal on Rahnführer , issued by the District Committee for Numismatics Leipzig in the Kulturbund of the GDR on the occasion of the district coin exhibition in Delitzsch
• 2004 Memorial plaque on the house where he was born, Torgauer Str. 4 in Herzberg (Elster)

literature

• Horst Gutsche : A life for people and numismatic science. On the 50th anniversary of Eugen Rahnführer's death. In: Freiberg Münzblätter. Vol. 17, 2008, ZDB -ID 913845-6 , pp. 50-63.
• Horst Gutsche: A life for people and science Eugen Rahnenführer in memory. In: Home calendar for the Herzberg region. 2005, ZDB -ID 1286300-2 , p. 158 ff.

swell

• Horst Gutsche: The Rahnenführer research project