Hans Reiche (28 November 1914 – 30 September 2000)[1] was an electrical engineer and philatelist who became a world authority on Canadian stamps.
Born in Berlin, Reiche received a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) in 1936,[2] before travelling first to England in 1939, where he was interned after the start of World War Two, and then to Camp Monteith in Ontario, Canada in 1940.
He was released in 1942 with the help of Albert Einstein, who was a friend of the family, and he then started a long career working for the Canadian Government.
[2] Non-philatelic documents about Hans Reiche and his family are held in the Ottawa Jewish Archives.
Particularly notable was "Postmarked Ottawa" in The Canadian Philatelist, the official journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada.