1 февраля 2018 года состоялся очередной Кюнкер. На многих лотах было указано происхождение из коллекции Gunther Hahn. Кто-нибудь знает кто это? Спасибо.
GUNTHER HAHN PORTRAIT OF A COLLECTOR Gunther Hahn, born on July 13, 1938 in Berlin, was fascinated by foreign countries and continents from an early age. In 1958, he took the opportunity to participate in a one-year expedition through India with the Ethnological Museum Berlin. After training as a cameraman, he worked for the television station Free Berlin (Sender Freies Berlin) from 1959 to 1968. During the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, he captured historical film footage, for which he was later awarded the Jakob Kaiser Prize. On this memorable day, Gunther Hahn even managed to persuade a soldier of the National People‘s Army to spontaneously flee and jump the border fence. He invited the man who was around his age into his car and the two of them celebrated freedom on Kurfürstendamm together. For Hahn, his employment as a cameraman in Israel during the Six-Day Warin June 1967 is also unforgettable. In 1968 at the age of 30, he ventured into self-employment and founded the company „Gunther Hahn Production for Film and Television“, specializing in the production of documentary films. His love of antiques and antique books also sparked his interest in coins in the late 1960s. Rather coincidentally, he bought a number of Austrian silver coins in Prague in 1967, which he then sold to the coin dealer Gernot Dorau (1939-2013), who had a coinshop in the Johann-Georg-Straße in Berlin-Wilmersdorf at that time. Having now caught the numismatic bug, he initially started collecting antique coins, which he later sold off. Coin collectors and numismatists are mostly inspired by like-minded people, and their collection strategy and focus is often determined by exchanges with other enthusiasts, often coindealers. Professional reasons had already brought Gunther Hahn to the Zurich Bank Leu in 1971, at which time the famous numismatist Jean-Paul Divo (1937-2014), who was born in Luxembourg, headed the Department of Modern Coins and Medals. Divo convinced Hahn - in his own passionate way - to focus only on pieces of the highest quality and to collect the coins of Brandenburg-Prussia as he lived in Berlin. Gunther Hahn followed his advice, and he managed to compile an extraordinary collection of pieces minted in Brandenburg-Prussia, which were either extremely rare or excellently preserved, sometimes both. While building this collection, the Berlin-based coin dealer Niels Menzel (1942-2006), who was also a numismatist, played a central role as an adviser on the quality and preservation of the items. Gunther Hahn also maintained close contacts with other important collectors of Prussian coins such as Eberhard Schnuhr (died in 1984), Achim von Thielau, and Fritzotto Bauss (1918-1999). He had close personal friendships with them - as well as with Niels Menzel - which also included their families. Hahn was also a good friend of the Berlin-based archaeologist Alfred Kernd‘l (1929-2005), who Hahn inspired to collect the coins of Frederick the Great and helped him build up his own collection. Kernd‘l and Hahn jointly published the updated monograph „Frederick the Great in the coin effigies of his time“ in 1986. Many of the pieces depicted in this monograph are now being offered in this catalog. In addition, there is also a collection of interesting coins and merit medals ofthe Russian Empire - one might say “on the side”. These pieces will also be auctioned off at the Künker Berlin auction in 2018 and can be found in catalog 302. The married couple jointly decided to reintroduce this collection, which is so valuable to Brandenburg-Prussian numismatics, back to the numismatic circuit by way of a Künker auction.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- «Безусловно, любое мнение имеет право на существование, но люди почему-то делают из этого неверный вывод, будто каждое мнение одинаково ценно» /А.А.Зализняк/