It is with great sadness that I report the death, 19 December 2016, of veteran token collector and researcher Günter Fritz of Cologne, Germany. Herr Fritz was born 4 August 1934 in Kolberg (now Kołobrzeg, Poland). His 1979 work (with Uwe Frenzel) was the standard for many years on German transport tokens, "Marken, Zeichen und Notmünzen der Verkehrsunternehmen in Deutschland und Österreich-Ungarn". In recent years a completely revised work has been running bimonthly in the magazine "Wertmarkenforum".