Probably a few years ago, I asked about Karl Hennig who carries a reputation as a stamp dealer whom is either reviled, tolerated or praised. Perhaps some of the many new or newer members can answer my questions.
The reason for the criticism seems to be his many Nazi era philatelic covers, particularly those created during the war that evidently were officially tolerated but had in most cases no post office or field post validity.
Some collectors state that after the war when he departed Germany for the Dominican Republic, he continued to use his enormous stock of Hitler cards, postmarking devices (how would he have obtained these?), envelopes and of course stamps in order to continue making covers and propaganda postcards with various postmarks, etc. after the end of WWII, selling his "historic" material even into this century.
Did he really have that many "genuinely" postmarked covers and cards from the WWII era or did he continue to make up these covers after the war? If so, his WWII era stock must have been enormous.
Setting all that aside, I am wondering if anyone has seen Karl Hennig advertisements during the war years? What did they state? And does anyone know how many employees Hennig had in his establishment over the years, but especially during the war?
He was a Nazi Party member so it would appear that he used his party connections to draw upon others for his production of all sorts of combination covers from Germany and the occupied territories during the war.
I'd be interested in any replies to this. I own some of his creations, they are sort of neat but I have accepted they are probably postwar productions. His son Werner continues the business out of the Dominican Republic, he now seems to sell mainly on Ebay.
If the senior Hennig actively sold during WWII I am unaware of it. He may well have run ads in the German philatelic press. Stamp publications were issued in Germany until near the end of the war.
Hello,
Snick1946,
The elder Hennig, that is Karl had a stamp business in Germany well before the war so he was in biz but would as mentioned be very interested to see the wording of any WWII ads chiefly to understand how he marketed this WWII stuff to his fellow Germans.
Bruce
When I was researching the covers of the 1932 George Washington Bicentennial, the APS library had bound copies of Linn's from that era that I borrowed. Maybe APS would have bound copies of German stamp publications from the period you are seeking.
Good idea about the APS. I did find a place in Munich that found ads in German publications but unfortunately, while the search was free, the cost to copy it or scan for email was $20.
Bruce
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