Christa Behmenburg (Germany) has 27,623 items relating to mice and rats that she has been collecting since the 1980’s. Within this collection Christa has 206 telephone cards, 124 bookmarks, 5,470 figurines, 13,854 postcards and various other unusual items including cigarette cards and money. In addition to her job as a librarian, Christa privately works on a study entitled Mice and Rats in the History and Culture of Mankind. She also keeps a number of rats as pets.
The largest collection of model trucks belongs to Peter and Jens Pittack of Wiesenburg, Germany, with 2,169 different trucks; which they have been collecting since 1997. The drink-trucks are in the scale of 1:87.
Carsten Tews (Germany) has 1,563 different mobile phones, as of 23 February 2010, which he has collected since 1998. The oldest mobile phone he owns is a 33 year old TEKADE BSA 31.
Christoph Bermpohl (Germany) has 1,030 different miniature champagne bottles, as of July 2011, which he has been collecting since 1993. All of his miniature champagne bottles are 0.2 litre bottles (also called quarter-bottles).
Birgit Berends (Germany) had amassed a collection of 11,062 different penguin-related items, as of 14 March 2011. Birgit started her collection at the age of 18, inspired by the animated series Pingu, although her very first penguin dates back to her days in elementary school.
Gerd Bonk (Germany) has a collection of 356 different antique oil lamps that he has been collecting since 1975. His collection consists of 1 wall oil lamp, 2 standing oil lamps, 22 hanging oil lamps, 46 small table oil lamps and 285 table oil lamps.
The largest collection of snowmen belongs to Cornelius Graetz (Germany), with 3,143 different snowman related items as of 16 December 2010, which he has amassed since 1983.
The largest collection of sugar packets belongs to Ralf Schröder (Germany) and consists of 14,502 different sugar packets as of 14 May 2013, in Deepen, Niedersachsen, Germany. Ralf Schröder started his collection in 1987. The oldest sugar packet dates back from the 1950’s.
Frank Helker (Germany) has a collection of 163,235 Edmondson railway tickets that he has amassed since the 1980s. Edmondson tickets are those that have been made using a specific printing and numbering machine. Thomas Edmondson invented the revolutionary system of printing rail tickets and it has been in wide use since 1843. Frank has railway tickets dating from 1902 to 2003.
Gerd Bonk (Germany) has 126 different trivets, as of 16 February 2010, that he has been collecting since 1975. A trivet is a plate placed between a serving dish and a dining table to protect the table from heat damage. All of his breakfast trivets have different old German proverbs printed.