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  • Birthday 08/15/1947

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  1. Hi andyg, thanks a lot for your kind offer. I would be very greatful, if you can submit a copy to the following e-mail address: research5@kunstmedaillen.net
  2. Hi friends of world coins, I am looking for the following coin: 450 years anniversary of the national university of San Marco in Peru. The coin has been issued in 2001. On the homepage of the National Bank of Peru I have found the publication of the legislation for the emission of this coin, but no picture. http://www.bcrp.gob.pe/docs/Transparencia/...4-2001-BCRP.pdf Can anybody in this forum help with a nice picture? Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
  3. Goetzdude, do you have any idea on a birth medal on Stefan (Stephan) van Wien? I have checked the Kienast, but I have not found anything. But it could be that any other Munich artist has produced this medal. Let us try to find out, whether there is another medal on the van Wien children. I have already checked the work of Dasio and the publication of Heidemann (DGMK Vol 8, 1998, Medaillenkunst in Deutschland von 1895 bis 1914 (Art medals in Germany from 1895 to 1914)) with about 1300 medals from that time. I have found nothing, but I will contact different museums on that.
  4. Dear friends of Goetz medals and of the family van Wien, I have very good news from Lyra (Van Wien) Hekmatpanah, the daughter of Stefan van Wien. I have contacted her husband Javad Hekmatpanah, who is professor at the Chicago medical center: http://www.uchospitals.edu/physicians/java...kmat-panah.html Mrs. van Wien informed me about her family as follows: We were really amazed to receive your letter. You know a lot about our family! I'm sure there must have been a medal to honour the birth of my father, Stefan Van Wien, but I have no idea where that medal would be. But here are a few corrections. My father, Stefan Van Wien, always spelled his name like that (never Stephan van Wien). My parents, Stefan and Marianne Van Wien, came to the United States alone (in 1934 or 1935)--that was their "honeymoon." My father's mother, Mathilde Van Wien, came alone to the U.S. in 1939. She died in 1945. My father died June 21,1962. My mother died in July 2005. Johanna did marry (for her first marriage) Willi Bauer and they went to China. They subsequently divorced and my aunt Johanna then went to Australia (married a second time). She didn't come to the U.S. until about 1953 or 1954. She married a third time, never had children, and lived first in California and then Arizona. Johanna died too now (but I don't know the exact date). I have a photograph showing me, aged about one year, sitting on my grandfather Ferdinand's lap. Thus he must have visited my parents in 1936. My grandfather returned to Germany. Apparently the Gestapo came to his home, looking for him. He wasn't at home. He felt that he had always been a good German, had done nothing wrong, and went to the police station. He had diabetes, and my understanding is that they simply didn't give him insulin, and that caused his death. What a fate of the van Wien family. And what the medal of Karl Goetz has achieved nearly 100 years after it was made. The medal is a real memorial of the van Wien family. I believe the answer of Mrs. Hekmatpanah is a real Christmas present for all of us, as it confirms that her Grandmother and her parents and her aunt have really reached foreign countries and escaped fascism. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
  5. Dear friends of Goetz medals and the family van Wien, I have after two years extremely good news on the story of the van Wien family. With the help of an expert I have received the information that Mathilde van Wien together with her son Stephan has been registered on the passenger list of Statendam to New York on 31st Oct. 1939. The information was available on ancestry.de. The Statendam which has been used by the van Wien family is the third Dutch ship with the name Statendam, which started operation in 1929. A list of ships of the Dutch-America-Line is available on: http://www.kalkriese.de/Holland-America_Line.html Further information on their future in the US is still under investigation. But I hope I can contact grandchildren of Stephan and that they are willing to tell us more about their grandparents and relatives. Can someone of you check the passenger lists of Statendam, when it arrived in New York? Has also Johanna van Wien been onboard of that ship? Has Dr. Kurt Willi Bauer immigrated to the US? I have found someone with the name Kurt W Bauer in list of recruited US soldiers for WW II in Passaic, New Jersey. Furthermore a Kurt Bauer is on the passenger lists of New York. Kurt Willi Bauer, the husband of Johanna van Wien, was born 20 July 1908 in Stuttgart-Canstatt. Can someone check ancestry.com on these points? I have only access to ancestry.de, which shows not all details.
  6. Hello friends of the medals of Karl Goetz, some time ago we discussed the birth medals of Johanna van Wien and her brother Bertram. I have in the meantime published their story in the German coin journal "Muenzen und Sammeln". The pdf document can be found here: http://www.kunstmedaillen.net/Denkmal.pdf The publication is still in German, but I am planning to produce an English version. Nevertheless I would like to distribute the information already now. Kind regards RESEARCH5 Kunstmedaillen.net
  7. Hi friends of Goetz medadals, Due to the bad wheather and that the Munich town archive is closed until mid of October 2007, I have not been in Munich as planned beginning of August. But I am planning already a business trip to Munich, after the town archive has been reopened mid of october 2007. Has anybody been successful in finding US relatives of Johanna van Wien??
  8. I have heard about the SS St. Louis, but I did not know the name of the ship. This of course was used by the nazis for their propaganda to convince simple minded people, that what they are doing is right. Anti-Semitism is a long story and sometimes supported by the Christian church. After the WW II the catholic church helped Christian people to emigrate to South America, not asking whether they were nazis or not. But no Jew was supported at that time. The conflict between the Christian church and the Jewish church is based on the fact that the Jews have murdered Jesus Christ. Still today in Germany the Christian church maintains their privilege that together with the tax the "church tax" is automatically collected by the Government based on the concordat signed by Pius XII and the nazis. But back to the family van Wien. I am going to Munich mid of August. There are several points in Munich where I am going to investigate on the van Wien family. I hope to bring more details in the coming weeks.
  9. Goetzdude, Christian, I have seen that the internet page already mentioned by Christian contains the whole van Wien family as far as it concerns Ferdinand van Wien and his wife Mathilde. http://www.gunnet.de/stephani/step_p67.htm This page is in German and intends to commemorate the jewish citizens of Gunzenhausen. Mathilde van Wien (born Ambrunn) was born in Gunzenhausen on 15/07/1886. She was the mother of Johanna van Wien. Unfortunately it is stated at the bottom of this page that no relatives of the van Wiens have been found so fare. It has to be considered, that even remarks in the registration books of the town administration must not tell the truth. It happens, that a remark that someone has emigrated, in reality was an attamp to cover their murder in a KZ (concentration camp). I would be happy to receive the information, that Johanna van Wien together with her brother Stephan and mother had reached the USA and escaped the nazis.
  10. Goetzdude, Thank you for your hint that Kienast 64 has been offered in the Moeller auction 41. I have changed the picture of the medal. It is a scan again, but with somewhat better quality. Now again you can get an impression on the quality of the work of Karl Goetz. I will try to receive the original picture from Mr. Möller, if still available.
  11. I believe it is useful to add a copy of Kienast 64. This I have taken from the publication, therefore the quality is not very high. I have just changed the picture. Now it is taken from Moeller auction 41, May 2006, Nr. 5208.
  12. Dear friends of Goetz medals, I have investigated the dates of Johanna van Wien at the town archive of Munich. I have received a copy of her declaration of birth and of her marriage with Dr. Kurt Willi Bauer. Johanna van Wien was the daughter of Ferdinand and Mathilde van Wien. She had an older brother named Stephan van Wien. Therefore the two letters on the sails of the sailing boat are clear: these are the insignia of Johanna and Stephan. The second younger brother of Johanna, this was Bertram following the declaration of birth. On the medal he was called Bertrand, maybe the French version of the German Bertram. A medal on his birth can be found on Kienast 64. He died already in an age of two years. In Kienast part II there is a remark on Opus 64: The letters S, J and B on the reverse are the initials of the first names of the van Wien children. Now we know more: These are Stephan, Johanna and Bertram or Bertrand. Ferdinand van Wien was murdered by the nazis in Dachau on 14/11/1938. In September 1939 Mathilde van Wien was able to emigrate together with her children Stephan and Johanna to the USA. With his two medals on Johanna van Wien and Bertrand van Wien Karl Goetz has made not only two great pieces but a memorial for the family van Wien.
  13. I have found something in the internet about a Dutch family named van Wien and her daugther was born in 1917 in Krefeld in Germany. http://historie.venlo.nl/persoon.asp?odID=606 The whole family has been murdered by the faschists in Auschwitz. But I have not found anything about a Johanna van Wien born in München, which might be the daughter of another family. I assume that it will be a difficult activity to find out the background, but this is something what makes the collecting of those medals real interesting to know, what are the details on it. Lets go ahead to find out what was going on with this family. Later remark: The father of the Johanna van Wien born in Krefeld in 1917 was the daugther of Sally van Wien, who was brother of Ferdinand van Wien, the father of the Johanna van Wien mentioned on the medal.
  14. That is something I am looking for like you, bill! The text on the little sign below the sailing boat is Dutch and can be translated as "Always a good trip". The S could be the first letter of her father or mother??
  15. Hello Goetzdude, this is another nice piece of Goetz, which I have not yet seen. All his private work on birthdays, marriages and other occasions are very precisely worked out. Thank you for showing!
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