Heinrich Köhler (24 March 1881 – 22 August 1945) was a German philatelist who signed the

Roll of Distinguished Philatelists The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists (RDP) is a Philately, philatelic award of international scale, created by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1921. The Roll consists of five pieces of parchment to which the signatories add their n ...

in 1932."The Brighton (and Hove) Congress" by Stanley Phillips in '' Gibbons Stamp Monthly'', Vol. V., No. 10, 1 July 1932, p. 1. He was a stamp dealer and philatelic publisher. From 1904 until 1912 he ran and was the co-founder of ''Gilbert & Köhler'',

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. He is best known as the founder of the German

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of the same name. This philatelic auction house was started 1913 in Berlin and still exists.

References and sources

;References ;Sources *''Heinrich Köhler und seine Nachfolger'' (Heinrich Köhler and His successors) by

Wolfgang Maassen Wolfgang A. Maassen is a German philatelist who, in 2014, was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists. He was awarded the Sieger Medal in 2003 and 2008 and the Lindenberg Medal in 2012. Maassen is a specialist in the philately of B ...

, Schwalmtal, Germany: Phil Creativ GmbH, 2013, 492 pages Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists 1881 births 1945 deaths German philatelists {{Germany-business-bio-stub