Numismatic Society in Hanover
The Numismatic Society of Hanover (NGH) is a numismatic association based in Hanover . Founded in 1859 under the name Münzforscherverein , the NGH is one of the oldest numismatic associations in Germany.
Purpose of the association
Numismatists and coin collectors belong to the Numismatic Society of Hanover . The purpose of the association is to disseminate knowledge about coins and medals and to expand knowledge about the history of money and numismatics from antiquity to the present.
activities
The Numismatic Society of Hanover (NGH) coordinates and initiates numismatic activities in Hanover. In the past, this included looking after and now advising the coin exchange in Hanover, which is part of the largest coin fair in northern Germany. In 2012 the NGH started its own minting of medals. In 2013 there was a stamp on the vacancy of the Holy See .
There is close cooperation between the Numismatic Society in Hanover and the Museum August Kestner in Hanover, including regular lectures on the history of money. Both institutions hold a joint Eligius lecture event every year . In addition, there is a collaboration with the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation in the determination of found coins.
The Numismatic Society in Hanover is the German Numismatic Society - Association of German Coin Associations. V. (DNG) and the Lower Saxony Archaeological Working Group (ArchAN).
Research funding
The Numismatic Society of Hanover supports research projects at the Leibniz University Hanover and the Museum August Kestner. Funding is based on cooperation agreements . It concerns application-related research and development in the areas of archaeometry and museum inventory maintenance, including through the training of scientists.
Awards
From 1969 to the end of the 1980s, the Numismatic Society in Hanover donated the “Dr” named after the former director of the Kestner Museum. Irmgard Woldering - Promotion Prize “ . It was awarded for scientifically processed topics of coin and medal collecting. The gunmetal award medal depicts the mountain nymph Daphne and was made by Hilde Broër .
Chairperson
The association Münzfreunde Hannover, founded in 1952 as a forerunner of the Numismatic Society in Hanover, was headed by Alexander Wenzel, who worked at the Museum August Kestner. He was followed in 1963 by the architect Georg Wimmelmann . From 1987, Jakob Vogt was in charge of the club and worked for the Stadtsparkasse Hannover . His successor was the Bundesbank employee and counterfeit money specialist Dieter Radow. In 1995 the Egyptologist Manfred Gutgesell took over the chairmanship of the Numismatic Society in Hanover. After his death in 2011, the chemist and numisanalyst Robert Lehmann was elected President of the NGH in 2012, who held the office until 2019. His successor was Dirk Wilhelmy.
history
The Numismatic Society of Hanover (NGH) is the second oldest numismatic society in Germany after the Numismatic Society of Berlin founded in 1843 and the fourth oldest numismatic society in Europe after the Royal Numismatic Society founded in London in 1836 and the Société royale de Numismatique founded in Brussels in 1841 .
The forerunner of the Numismatic Society in Hanover was the Münzforscherverein , which was founded in Hanover on August 18, 1859 and which focused on researching coins. The reason for its foundation was the introduction of the metric system in numismatic literature in the 19th century, which made much of the subject-related literature obsolete. The founding members included well-known numismatists from Hanover, such as the judge Hermann Dannenberg , the court bookseller Heinrich Wilhelm Hahn and the Senator Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann .
In 1909 it was re-established as an association of coin and medal collectors, which was primarily oriented towards coin collectors. It had 72 members from 27 cities in the German Reich . It was later renamed the Numismatic Association for Lower Saxony-Hanover . In 1913 the association had around 100 members. At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the club's activities flagged. The history of the association during the interwar period is not known, as the files have been lost. After the Second World War , the Münzfreunde Hannover association was founded on March 13, 1952 , following on from the previous association. The "Coin Exchange and Coin Exhibition" in Hanover, launched by the association in 1965, was already one of the most important coin exchanges in the Federal Republic of Germany.
In May 1968, the Numismatic Society in Hanover, which still exists today, was founded as the successor society with 230 members, which at that time was already one of the four largest numismatic societies in the Federal Republic of Germany. The association experienced a huge increase in membership in the 1970s, due to the growing economy and increasing prosperity. The NGH soon initiated coin collecting associations in other places such as Bad Münder , Goslar , Krefeld , Salzgitter- Lebenstedt and Nienburg / Weser .
Publications
The Münzforscherverein founded in 1859 published the “Numismatic- Sphragistic Anzeiger, newspaper for coin, seal and coat of arms” as the official organ from 1868 . In 1874 the “Blätter für Münzfreunde” was added. At the turn of the century , the magazines lost their importance and function as publication organs.
From 1953 to 2000 the magazine "Kulturring - magazine of the cultural associations in Hanover" was the unofficial publication organ of the association. Since the year 2000 the organ of publication of the association is the "Numismatic News Gazette". In 2013, the Numismatic Society in Hanover launched the book series Hanoverian Numismatic Contributions , the first volume of which was published in 2014.
literature
- Robert Lehmann: 155 Years of the Numismatic Society in Hanover in: Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt , April 2014, pp. 122–123 ( online )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Report on the change of president at the Numismatic Society in Hanover 2012 in the magazine MünzenWoche from May 31, 2012
- ↑ History of the Numismatic Society in Berlin ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
