[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 ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Thu 14 Jan 2010 06:31:43 AM PST |
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