Bureau

PHILATELIC CURRICULUM VITAE

LINDNER, Franz-Karl (born 22 June 1950)
married, 3 children
headmaster of the School for blind and visually impaired at Soest

Collector since childhood

Specializing:

• Postal history:
  • Maritime Mail – Mail from aboard of Submarines and submarine-departments
  • Letters for the Blind – Cécogrammes (international)
  • Postal history of the German town “Timmendorfer Strand”
• Thematic: blindness, eyes, ophthalmology
• Picture postcard: Timmendorfer strand

Memberships:

• Soester Briefmarkenfreunde e.V. (since 1975)
• Poststempelgilde e.V.
• Briefmarkensammlerverein Trochtelfingen-Gammertingen e.V.
• ArGe Schiffspost e.V.
• ArGe Thematische Philatelie in NRW
• Royal Philatelic Society, London
• Académie Européenne de Philatélie

Functions - duties:

• Verein Soester Briefmarkenfreunde e.V.
  • 1979-1984 member of the board
  • 1984-1993 president
• Verband der Philatelisten in NRW (regional federation Northrhein-Westfalia)
  • 1986 responsible for the public relations
  • 1987/88 secretary
• Bund Deutscher Philatelisten e.V. (German Philatelic Association)
  • 1988-1991 responsible for the section philatelic research
  • 1991-1997 member of the Board
  • since 1997 vice-president
• Others:
  • member of the curators of the German Stiftung zur Förderung der Philatelie und Postgeschichte e.V.
  • substitute member of the „Kunstbeirat beim Bundesministerium der Finanzen“

Author:

• Berühmte Augenärzte auf Briefmarken (1994) [Famous Ophthalmologist shown on stamps]
• Special thematic articles concerning blindness, eyes – published in special journals
• Special thematic articles concerning „Letters for the Blind“, „Cécogrammes“ published in „philatelie“ and other national and international journals
  

Exhibits:

• Deutsche Marine - Post von U-Boot-Einheiten und -Dienststellen (German Navy – Mail from aboard of submarines and submarine-departments)
• Die Marinen der Welt - Post von U-Boot-Einheiten und -Dienststellen (The Navies of the World – Mail from aboard of submarines and submarine-departments)
• Die U-Boote der US-NAVY und ihre Bordpoststempel (The submarines of the US Navy and their cancellations)
• Die Blindensendung - eine Studie zur deutschen Postgeschichte (Letters for the Blind – a study to the Germyn postal history)
• Blindensendungen international – von der Gebührenreduzierung zur Gebührenfreiheit (Letters for the Blind international– from reduced fees to free of charge)
• Blindheit im Spiegel der Briefmarke (Blindness showed on stamps);
  

Awards:

• Verein Soester Briefmarkenfreunde e.V.:
  • honorary president
  • Bronze, silver and gold medals
• Verband der Philatelisten in NRW e.V.:
  • Bronze medal (1981)
  • Silver medal (1989)
• DPhJ e.V.: (German Philatelic Youth)
  • Silver medal
• BDPh e.V.:
  • Bronze needle (1983)
  • Silver needle i (1987)
  • Vermeil needle (1990)
  • Gold needle (2003)
• Others:
  • Walter-Lippens-Medal of the VPhA for achievments in the field of organization (2004)

Others:

• Exhibition manager of several local and regional exhibitions (e.g.. RHEIN-RUHR-POSTA)
• Organizer of several SOESTER GESPRÄCHE
• Responsible for the area of the library of the IPHLA '89.
• Responsible for the area of philatelic literature in IBRA' 99 and IBRA 09
• Initiator of the project „School and Philately“
• Responsible for the website oft he BDPh e.V www.bdph.de
• Responsible for the website www.deutscher-philatelistentag.de
• Collaborator concerning the website www.phila-kompass.de
• Responsible for the website of the PhilaPromotion GmbH
• Responsible for the fields philatelic research and literature, school and philately, new media etc.