[meteorite-list] Christian Anger + Gero Kurat (1938-2009)

From: Jörn Koblitz <koblitz_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:20:17 +0100
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I am deeply saddened to learn about the death of Christian, a fellow collector and friend for so many many years.

Sadly, this is not the only terrible news from Austria, recently:

Prof. Gero Kurat, the former curator of the meteorite collection at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria, and past president of the Meteoritical Society died on November 27, 2009, at the age of only 71.

http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/news_display.cfm?code=news_intro&itemID=51&CFID=3978395&CFTOKEN=27350152

http://solarsystem.wustl.edu/2009/12/01/gerot-kurat/

Both great individuals will truly be missed! My sincere condolences to his families and friends.

Joern Koblitz


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> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Christian Anger
>
>
>
>
> 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/)
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> Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
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>
> 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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