The Collection of "Collectors" is Growing ...
by Michael Negele
For a good 15 years I have collected "collectors" of chess literature, certainly a strange variant of our fine hobby.
This "passion" began in the middle of the nineties when I started to pay visits to my barter partners in the course of vacation trips.
At first there were regular visits to my long-standing chess friend Dr Hans-Georg Kleinhenz (formerly Stolberg, for decades living in Munich) who actually "seduced" me to deal to a greater extent with the collecting of chess literature.
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Hans-Georg Kleinhenz in his Munich home, together with Walter Simon, our KWA founding member from Vienna. -
Visiting KWA member Hans Ellinger in Tübingen -
and Wladimir Sokolow in Heilbronn -
Visits to Munich always led to Manuel Fruth in Unterhaching and his residential chess shop. Already an experience per se. -
I visited Mathias Burkhalter, my reliable supplier of chess literature in the nineties, nearby Bern. -
At Ralf-Axel Simon in Berlin-Steglitz you can wonderfully rummage for chess literature as well. -
Ralf Binnewirtz in Wuppertal, in the beginning of 2001 - after the Lasker conference at Postdam. -
Visit of Ralf Binnewirtz to Jurgen Stigter in Amsterdam, shortly after the Lasker conference as well. -
Peter de Jong and Hans Engberts in Utrecht, July 2007 -
My Bayer chess club companion Hans-Dieter Müller in Wuppertal -
Visit to Hans-Jürgen Fresen, in the first years after the KWA foundation. -
With Jurgen Stigter at Andreas Saremba in Brieselang after one of the Lasker events in Berlin. -
The visit to Rolf Glenk in Forchheim was even impressive for my wife as the nice chess tiled stove could please her. -
Jurgen Stigter and Hans-Jürgen Fresen with me in Wuppertal -
Andreas Lehmann (Leipzig), taken at the GSM meeting in Limbach and ... -
Bernd Segebarth (Pingelshagen near Schwerin, here at a Klittich auction with Jurgen Stigter), well-established barter partners in the early nineties. I could visit both at trips to the new German states and admire their beautiful collections.
So I will soon report on newly included "gems" of my collection. Such visits show me all too clearly that my own "accumulation" of chess books urgently needs diligent care.
Michael Negele