Our last meeting for 2026 will take place on a Saturday morning instead of a Tuesday evening.

 

The change is to accommodate our speaker, Harald Krieg, who will discuss "East Africa Independence." Harald will join us via Zoom from his home in Germany.

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Harald will cover the colonial history of the East African territories, the differences in the structures of the colonial administrations versus the postal administrations, and the different movements for independence in Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar. 

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He will discuss how independence features on philatelic material and the consequences of independence, i.e., what did the countries develop towards?

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Harald Krieg was born in 1970 and grew up in southern Germany near the Swiss border. He has lived in Neuss, Germany for over 20 years. He studied  chemistry and has been working in
the automotive catalyst industry for nearly 30 years.

Introduced to stamp collecting by his mother, Harald has been a passionate collector since childhood. At the age of 14, he decided to pursue a unique collection, focusing on stamps from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, rather than following common trends. Today, he specializes in stamps from British East Africa and German East Africa, as well as all postal
territories that have evolved into modern-day Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

His interest in stamp collecting has led him to visit East Africa and other parts of the African continent numerous times, fostering a deep connection with the region. Harald is a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London and a member of several philatelic societies, including the East Africa Study Circle (UK), ArGe Sammler Deutscher Kolonialpostwertzeichen
(Germany), the German Colonies Collectors Group (USA), and various other organizations.

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