Porträt von Klaus-Dieter Bausch

Collector · Donor · † 1946 – 2007

Klaus-Dieter Bausch

Micromounts; from 1985 concentrated on gold, silver, copper, cuprite (including chalcotrichite), proustite, pyrargyrite, dioptase, bournonite and azurite

Porträt von Rudolf Berrenrath

Collector · Donor

Rudolf Berrenrath

Quarries and dumps in the Bergisches Land and the Sauerland; also Norway and Turkey; micromounts

Porträt von Hans Erich Bluth

Donor · Collector · † 1928 - 1999

Hans Erich Bluth

Micromounts, systematic, global approach

Porträt von Joachim Bluth

Collector · Donor · Photographer

Joachim Bluth

Micromounts from all over the world; fossils from the Messel pit

Porträt von Bernd Bogusch

Collector · Donor

Bernd Bogusch

Alpine cleft minerals of the Western and Eastern Alps; parageneses of the deposits of Lavrion, Iceland, the Eifel, the Sauerland and Siegerland, the northern and southern Black Forest, Bavaria and Tyrol

Collector · Benefactor · † 1977 – 2022

Andreas Brand

Minerals from all over the world, above all aesthetic small and hand specimens

Porträt von Klaus Fleck

Collector · Benefactor · † 2015

Klaus Fleck

His donation of around 30,000 identified and labelled micromounts with about 1,500 mineral species in 1999 was the foundation of the Lithothek

Porträt von Manfred Früchtl

Collector · Donor · Photographer

Manfred Früchtl

Fichtelgebirge, Upper Palatinate (Wölsendorf fluorspar district), Black Forest (Grube Clara), Alpine localities (Rauris, Habachtal, Sulzbach valleys), Untermurbach quarry near Lenggries; more interested in aesthetics than in completeness

Porträt von Dr. Heinz und Christl Fürnkranz

Collector · Benefactor

Dr. Heinz und Christl Fürnkranz

The collection of Dr. Heinz Fürnkranz, handed over by Christl Fürnkranz after his death

Porträt von Theo Halama

Collector · Benefactor · † 24 December 1941 – 16 December 2024

Theo Halama

Fossils from hard coal

Porträt von Heinz Hublitz

Collector · Donor

Heinz Hublitz

Minerals from all over the world, with an emphasis on the mineral class of the halides

Porträt von Sigismund („Sigi“) Hupfer

Collector · Donor · Photographer

Sigismund („Sigi“) Hupfer

Germany and Austria: Leogang, Brixlegg, the Tauern valleys, Bavaria, the Lahn-Dill region, Siegerland; aesthetics before completeness

Porträt von Peter Köhlen

Collector · Donor

Peter Köhlen

Deposits he has visited himself; systematics; micromounts from his own finds

Porträt von Dorothea Kulicke

Collector · Benefactor · † 1918 – 2003

Dorothea Kulicke

Selected localities where one can collect for oneself (Grube Clara, Lavrion, Waidhaus, the Eifel, the Kaiserstuhl); aesthetics and variety of habit

Porträt von Hannes Osterhammer

Collector · Photographer

Hannes Osterhammer

First in the Spessart, then Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece (Lavrion) and worldwide; increasingly micromounts; today photography

Porträt von Traudl Osterhammer

Donor · Collector

Traudl Osterhammer

Began in the Spessart, then Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece (Lavrion) and worldwide; special interest in pseudomorphs

Porträt von Fritz Schreiber

Collector · Donor

Fritz Schreiber

Lavrion (Greece) – minerals of the ancient galleries and dumps and slag minerals of the coast; slag minerals from other sources; aesthetic micromounts

Porträt von Erwin Schuhbauer

Collector · Donor · † 1927 – 2017

Erwin Schuhbauer

Collection of localities and deposits – as far as possible all the minerals of particular places; about 20 trips to the western United States (1984–2000); the Habachtal

Porträt von Dr. Manfred Seitz

Collector · Donor · Benefactor

Dr. Manfred Seitz

Locality collector without specialisation; worldwide swapping contacts in German, English, French and Spanish

Porträt von Ludwig („Wiggerl“) Siebler

Collector · Donor

Ludwig („Wiggerl“) Siebler

Specimens prepared out of the raw material he provided; large parts of the micromount collection of his late friend Heinz Kopsch

Porträt von Toni Wieland

Collector · Donor · † 1936 – 2008

Toni Wieland

Zeolites, above all as hand specimens; Eifel minerals and minerals of volcanic origin; systematics as micromounts

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