Information about the AGK

  • Our club "Arbeitskreis Geschichte des Kartonmodellbaus e.V." was founded 2002 in Neuruppin (Germany) by a group of card board model fans especially interested in historic card board models.
  • The purpose of our club is to promote research on the history of cardboard modeling.
  • Our club has about 160 members (including 9 institutional ones) from Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, France, Austria, Italy, Spain and 5 additional countries.
  • We are registered at the Handelsregistergericht Esslingen under the register number VR 1579 and approved by the fiscal authorities as a non-profit institution of public utility. The annual membership fee for single persons amounts to 25 Euro. For pairs/families the fee amounts to 40 Euro, and companies have to pay 50 Euro.
  • Our managing committee consists of
    Dieter Nievergelt
    Head    		 Constanze Lindner Haigis
    Editor "Zur Geschichte
    des Kartonmodellbaus"    		 Karl-Harro Reimers
    Distribution
     
    Heiko Schinke
    Cashier    		 Gerhard Sturm
    Secretary    		  
  • Our annual meetings takes place at different locations in Germany or Europe:
    • 2011 in Esslingen
    • 2010 in Eindhoven (NL)
    • 2009 in Lippstadt
    • 2008 in Mainz
    • 2007 in Berlin
    • 2006 in Leipzig
    • 2005 in Holzminden
    • 2004 in Mannheim
    • 2003 in Nürnberg
    • 2002 in Neuruppin
  • Our club also has an Advisory Council. It consists of:
    • Prof. Dr. Konrad Vanja (Berlin), director of the 'Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin'
    • Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stopfel (Freiburg), formerly responsible for historic preservation in the Freiburg branch, collector of card models li>
    • Up to her death, Prof. Dr. Christa Pieske (Lübeck), founder and former president of the 'Arbeitskreis Bild Druck Papier', also has been a member of our advisory council.
  • In the left menu you will find additional informationen about our club and in the main navigation bar the cardmodel database, the catalogue database and more information about card modeling.