Hans-Ludwig Grabowski

Hans-Ludwig Grabowski (born January 19, 1961 in Weißensee ) is a German numismatist , historian and specialist book author .

Life

Grabowski has been dealing with historical banknotes since childhood. The rail transport technician lived in Thuringia until 1998 and worked a. a. in the material planning of the Simson company and at the Treuhandanstalt in Suhl as well as in the management of a company for special vehicle construction. In 1995 he graduated from college. Since the mid-1980s, he has also been involved in database-supported programming and later developed digital collector catalogs including collection management in his own software company MediaSoft.

He has lived in Bavaria since 1998 and works for the publishers Gietl and Battenberg as a publishing assistant, specialist author and editor (since 1999 editing of "Der Geldscheinsammler"). He is u. a. Author of numerous specialist articles, of software for collection management on CD-ROM as well as of catalogs on paper money of the German states, on German serial notes and on German emergency money as well as editor of the " Rosenberg catalog " on German state paper money from the establishment of the Reich in 1871 until today.

He is editor of the magazine "Münzen & Sammeln" (previously "Münzen & Papiergeld") and the online magazine "www.geldscheine-online.com".

After the publication of his work on money and money substitutes in German concentration camps and ghettos of the Nazi dictatorship at the end of 2008 (Das Geld des Terrors), he also worked as a court-appointed expert in connection with claims by Holocaust survivors and was able to contribute to the judgment of the Federal Social Court, thousands of plaintiffs received pensions for their ghetto work. The "pension war" had previously reached the public's attention through an article he initiated in the magazine "Stern".

With his book published in 2014 about the food supply for Jews during the Second World War and his work on money as a means of propaganda in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich from 2015, he again entered uncharted territory and thus not only confirmed his role as a renowned numismatist, but also as a committed historian.

He appears in the press and television as an interview partner when it comes to the history of the time and money of the Third Reich or the GDR. As a reviewer, he has also presented a large number of numismatic and contemporary historical publications.

The total print run of the works (books and software) that he wrote or contributed to is several hundred thousand copies.

Prizes and awards

• 2004: Vreneli Prize of the “ World Money Fair ” in Basel for exceptional numismatic achievements in the field of journalism and journalism.
• 2012: Ward D. Smith Memorial Award from the International Bank Note Society (IBNS) for his work on modern Chinese reprints of historical banknotes.
• 2019: "Literary Achievement Award - 2018 Book of the Year" from the International Bank Note Society (IBNS) for his completely revised book "The German Banknotes from 1871".

Works

• Digital CD catalog including collection management for Holger Rosenberg: The banknotes of the German Empire from 1871. Regenstauf 1997.
• Digital CD catalog including collection management for Kurt Jaeger: The German coins since 1871. Regenstauf 1998, 2001.
• The paper money of the German states from 1871 to 1948 - The banknotes and emergency notes of the German states, provinces and districts. Regenstauf 1999.
• Holger Rosenberg (editor: Hans-Ludwig Grabowski): The German banknotes from 1871. Regenstauf 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007.
• Hans-Ludwig Grabowski, Manfred Mehl: German emergency money. Volume 1 and 2: German serial tickets 1918–1922. Regenstauf 2003, 2009.
• Helmut Kahnt, Kurt Michael Sonntag, Hans-Ludwig Grabowski: The euro coins - catalog of the circulation and special coins as well as the current coin sets and banknotes of all euro countries. Regenstauf 2003.
• German emergency money. Volumes 5 and 6: German small change notes: Official traffic issues 1916–1922. Regenstauf 2004.
• Hans-Ludwig Grabowski, Wolfgang J. Mehlhausen: Handbuch Geldscheinsammeln - A guide for banknote collectors and those who want to become one. Regenstauf 2004.
• Kurt Fischer, Helmut Kahnt, Hans-Ludwig Grabowski: The euro coins - catalog of the circulation and special coins as well as the current coin sets and banknotes of all euro countries. Regenstauf 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
• German emergency money. Volume 9: Emergency money of a special kind - banknotes made of fabric, leather and other unusual materials. Regenstauf 2005.
• German emergency money. Volume 10: The paper money of the German states 1871–1948. Regenstauf 2006.
• Hans-Ludwig Grabowski, Henning Huschka, Wolfgang Schamberg: Foreign banknotes under German occupation in the First and Second World Wars. Regenstauf 2006.
• NumisDat - The program for the collection management of coins, medals, banknotes, medals, photos, securities and more. Regenstauf 2007.
• The money of terror - money and money substitutes in German concentration camps and ghettos 1933 to 1945. Regenstauf 2008.
• Holger Rosenberg, Hans-Ludwig Grabowski: The German banknotes from 1871. Regenstauf 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015.
• Small German paper money catalog from 1871 to today - Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein. Regenstauf 2010.
• Hans-Ludwig Grabowski, Josef Gerber: Gedenkbanknotes der Welt / Commemorative Banknotes Of The World. Regenstauf 2011.
• Hans-Ludwig Grabowski, Wolfgang Haney (Ed.): Identifier “Jude” - anti-Semitism, disenfranchisement, persecution, destruction and the rationing of food and consumer goods for Jews in Greater Germany and the occupied territories 1939 to 1945. Regenstauf 2014.
• Regensburg emergency money - when World War I and inflation forced the city and entrepreneurs to issue their own paper money. In: Regensburger Almanach 2014 - City of Miracles. Regenstauf 2014.
• Hans-Ludwig Grabowski, Wolfgang Haney (ed.): “The Jew took silver, gold and bacon from us…” - Banknotes used for political and anti-Semitic propaganda during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Regenstauf 2015.
• Michael Kurt Sonntag, Hans-Ludwig Grabowski: The prices of German coins and banknotes from 1945 , Regenstauf 2016, 2017.
• Emergency money and emergency money - Regensburg emergency coins and emergency money notes. In: Little Regensburg coin history - coins, medals and emergency money , Regenstauf 2016.
• Manfred Müller, Anton Geiger, Hans-Ludwig Grabowski: German emergency money. Volume 13: The paper money of the German railways and the Reichspost. Regenstauf 2016.
• The German banknotes from 1871 - The paper money of the German central banks, state paper money, colonial and occupation expenses, German secondary areas and banknote-like securities and vouchers , Regenstauf 2017.
• Catalog of O-Euro Souvenir Notes / Catalog Of O-Euro Souvenir Notes / Catalog Des Billets Souvenirs 0-Euro , Regenstauf 2018.
• Concordance list of German banknotes from 1871 , Regenstauf 2019.
• Hans-Ludwig Grabowski, Manfred Kranz: The paper money of the old German states - banknotes of the states on the territory of the German Empire, founded in 1871, from the beginnings to the end of the 19th century , Regenstauf 2020.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Ludwig Grabowski in the catalog of the German National Library