Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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German philatelist
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About Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf
- Friedrich Heinrich Zinckgraf (30 October 1878 – 7 June 1954) was a German gallery owner, art dealer and philatelist from Munich.
- After World War II he was a supporter of the philatelistic department of the Munich City Library. In the 1930s he worked as a clerk at the Gallery Heinemann at the Lenbachplatz in Munich.
- In 1939 he acquired the gallery through Aryanization after the Jewish owner Mrs.
- Franziska Heinemann had been imprisoned for some weeks by the Nazis.
- Mrs Heinemann was able to leave the prison and the country after signing over the gallery to Zinckgraf.
- She moved to New York and died in November 1940. The Munich Stamp Society endowed a medal in his honour and named it after him.
- It is awarded each year to engaged young collectors.
- Two years after his death, the city of Munich dedicated a street to him in the Großhadern quarter.
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