Karl-Heinz Schmidt (forger)
Karl-Heinz Schmidt (born October 5, 1924 in Freiburg) is a German ophthalmologist , inventor and counterfeiter .
The German ophthalmologist Dr. med. Karl-Heinz Schmidt worked part-time as an inventor. So he developed the "Schmidt hammer", a rebound hammer that u. a. could be used for concrete testing.
He and his sister Ilona Eva Hausmann were born in the late 1950s BC. a. known from the minting of imperial gold coins . In Bonn they professionally produced large-scale replicas with the help of an electric discharge machine and sold them as original Reich gold replicas, which at that time (1959 to 1962) was still considered legal. However, at the instigation of banks, the two were finally sentenced in 1963 by a judgment of the Bonn District Court for fraud to six months' probation and payment of a fine of 12,000 DM.
By then, however, they had already brought so many imperial gold forgeries into circulation that even banks had been selling them as investment gold coins at the counter for many years . The total number of all "Schmidt-Hausmann forgeries" is estimated to be well over one hundred thousand copies. The company I. Hausmann & Co KG continued to produce coins for many years and now sold them as replicas. On January 1st, 1975, a new medal ordinance and a revised Coin Act came into force in the Federal Republic of Germany , which protected all coins that had been minted since 1850 from being re-minted.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gold coins - Doctor at the crossroads , Der Spiegel, 22/1961.
- ^ Gold coins - Falscher Wilhelm , Der Spiegel, 44/1962.
- ^ Judgment of the Bonn District Court , 1963.
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| SURNAME | Schmidt, Karl-Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ophthalmologist, inventor and counterfeiter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg |