Herbert Bodenschatz
Herbert Bodenschatz (born February 19, 1903 in Leipzig , † October 24, 1972 in Lüneburg ) was a German author and specialist in emergency money and storage money .
The son of an imperial customs officer came to Hamburg with his family in 1905 , graduated from secondary school in 1919 and did an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk. From 1922 to 1924 he was a commercial clerk at a Hamburg import and export company. From 1925 Bodenschatz went into business for himself and opened a mail order business for paper money . In 1927 he tried to publish a trade journal called "Die Notgeldkunde", which, however, only brought three issues. He then ran a bookstore in Hamburg.
In 1933 Herbert Bodenschatz became involved in the resistance against National Socialism . He was arrested in 1935 and was sent to the Aschendorfer Moor concentration camp for forced labor . In 1940 he was released. In 1941 he married Ruth Trautmann from Berlin and moved with her to Dahlenburg . The couple had two children.
In 1948 Bodenschatz published the catalog “The German emergency money coins, Part I, prisoner camp money 1914/18 official”, which was followed in 1950 by the catalog “War money notes 1914/1915 and their special features”. He was in professional exchange with Dr. Arnold Keller and worked on his banknote catalogs, which are still one of the fundamental works of German notaphilia today .
literature
- Walter Linke: Herbert Bodenschatz - collector and paper money dealer . In: Münzen & Papiergeld 11/2002, pp. 143f.
Remarks
- ↑ published in the Rundschau der Geldzeichenemammler published by Otto Ernst Schulze from 1949 to 1972
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bodenschatz, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and specialist in emergency money and storage money |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1972 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |