[meteorite-list] Christian Anger

From: Norbert Classen <riffraff_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:31:43 +0100
Message-ID: <7B3CC85CA9144E4BADC1370930CE1730_at_lunatic>

These are very, very sad news. Christian will truely be missed, and my
thoughts and prayers are with his friends and relatives.

I knew Christian since many years, and he used to visit me at my home prior
to the Ensisheim shows to talk about our favorite passion, and to show off
or to trade rocks from space. He was one of the kindest persons you can
imagine, always friendly and joking, with a big heart at the right place.
His passing away leaves a void that can't be filled.

There are a lot of anecdotes that come to my mind when I think of Christian,
too many to tell. One is a story around the large main mass of HaH 173 which
Christian traded from me years ago. The interior of that L6 was very fresh
(W0-1), but the mass had been buried in the desert and it was totally
covered with a tough caliche coating making it an ugly duckling. However,
Christian could see the swan in it, and in weeks of meticulous work he
manually removed all the caliche - I didn't recognize the mass when he sent
me a picture of it! It really looked like a fresh fall as Christian had
managed to bring out the original fusion crust which was hidden under the
caliche coating.

Christian always had a great passion for his meteorites, and handled them
with utmost care. Whenever he purchased a slice he manually polished it so
that he could also enjoy it under the microscope. He was an exemplary
curator of his space rocks, second to none. And he was a great guy, a real
buddy. I had the pleasure to serve with him on the IMCA Board of Directors,
the pleasure to have him as a fellow Brother of the Ensisheim Meteorite
Brotherhood of Guardians, and - last but not least - as a friend.

Christian: your great sense of humor and your passion will sorely be missed.
Godspeed!

Norbert Classen
President IMCA Inc.

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----

Hello everybody,
 
I just received this email (below) from Hanno, with very sad news.
For all of you who did not know Christian Anger, he was an expert meteorite
collector and a very friendly guy. In his real life he was an Engineer, and
lived near Vienna, Austria. He leaves behind an (ex)wife and two little
girls.
And I still remember when we were waltzing together in Ensisheim, in much
happier times.
 
Anne M. Black
_http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/) _IMPACTIKA at aol.com_
(mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com) Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
_http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/)

Hello Anne,

today I received an email from Harald Stehlik, that our good friend
Christian Anger had on 14.dec 2009 a very heavy car accident and he died.

I am very shocked and sad, because Christian was not only a collector but a
friend.
Everybody know how much fun we had when we were togheter.
We had also other private contact and were real friends.

At first he told me that he cannot come to the Munich show, because he had
so many private problems in his mind.
Then he called me thursday evening when I was in Munich that he decided to
come. So he was with us friday evening at the Fliegerbr?u and stayed in
Munich till sunday afternoon. He helped me to bring some of my material back
into the car sunday afternoon.
This was the last time I saw him.

True friendship never ends..............

Hanno Strufe

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