The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 1, January 2, 2005, Article 11

MAX VON BAHRFELDT INFORMATION SOUGHT

  David Gladfelter writes: "Can anyone comment on the report
  in the May 1936 Numismatist of Max von Bahrfeldt's death,
  that he had been "sentenced to death in absentia by a Belgian
  court-martial for alleged atrocities in the Charleroi region" 
  while commanding troops in Belgium during World War I?  He 
  was the publisher of Numismatisches Literatur-Blatt, the 
  first numismatic bibliographic journal and the forerunner 
  of ANS's Numismatic Literature, and the author of numerous 
  numismatic books. The report goes on to state that Bahrfeldt 
  was acquitted of similar charges by a court in Leipzig but 
  does not give any details. Needless to say, the image of 
  Bahrfeldt as a war criminal does not jibe with his image as
  a numismatic scholar."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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