Great personalities

Under the name Personalities gave German post office of the GDR from 1973 to 1981 year and then again in 1987 and 1989, 12 issues a comprehensive series of single stamps and sets out that the offset printing process has been printed. The editions published in sets with different denominations each contained a value in a significantly reduced edition (so-called blocking value ). Personalities from German-speaking countries whose birth or death anniversaries were honored were shown. Mainly personalities from the German-speaking area were represented. This series can be viewed as the successor to the series Famous People issued from 1967 to 1972 .

The Lipsia catalog of the GDR does not distinguish between the two series as important personalities . Here the description of the Michel catalog was chosen.

List of issues and motives

Legend

• Image: An edited image of the brand mentioned. The ratio of the size of the stamps to each other is shown approximately to scale in this article.
• Description: A brief description of the motif and / or the reason for the issue. In the case of issued series or blocks , the descriptions that belong together are indented with a marker.
• Value: The face value of the individual stamp in pfennigs . A "+" means that it is an additional stamp (= postage value + donation).
• Issue Date: The date this stamp was first sold.
• Edition: As far as known, the number of this edition offered for sale is given here.
• Design: As far as is known, it is stated here who designed this brand.
• Mi.-No .: This stamp is listed in the Michel catalog under the corresponding number.

image	description	value	Issue date	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Important personalities (I) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), painter	5	23rd January 1973	1,900,000	Gerhard Stauf	1815
	Friedrich Wolf (1888–1953), playwright and film author	10	23rd January 1973	6,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1816
	Max Reger (1873–1916), composer	20th	23rd January 1973	6,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1817
	Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), theater manager	25th	23rd January 1973	5,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1818
	Johannes Dieckmann (1893–1969), politician	35	23rd January 1973	5,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1819
	Important personalities (II) Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist	5	March 26, 1974	7,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1941
	Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher	10	March 26, 1974	7,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1942
	Ehm Welk (1884–1966), writer	20th	March 26, 1974	10,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1943
	Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803), writer, philosopher and theologian	25th	March 26, 1974	5,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1944
	Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958), writer	35	March 26, 1974	2,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1945
	Important personalities (III) Hans Otto (1900–1933), actor	5	March 18, 1975	4,500,000	Gerhard Stauf	2025
	Thomas Mann (1875–1955), writer and Nobel Prize winner	10	March 18, 1975	15,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2026
	Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), missionary doctor , theologian, musician and Nobel Prize winner	20th	March 18, 1975	7,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2027
	Michelangelo (1475–1564), sculptor , painter , builder and poet	25th	March 18, 1975	4,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2028
	André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), mathematician and physicist	35	March 18, 1975	2,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2029
	Important personalities (IV) Arnold Zweig (1887–1968), writer, saying in the background	10	February 8, 1977	15,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2199
	Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), statesman and physicist, Magdeburg hemispheres in the background	20th	February 8, 1977	8,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2200
	Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1752–1828), doctor and farmer , agricultural symbols in the background	35	February 8, 1977	4,500,000	Gerhard Stauf	2201
	Gustav Hertz (1887–1975), physicist and Nobel Prize winner, in the background part of a diagram of a system for separating isotopes by diffusion	40	February 8, 1977	2,100,000	Gerhard Stauf	2202
	Important personalities (V) Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855), mathematician, astronomer and physicist, in the background a seventeenth corner with a compass and an isosceles triangle	20th	April 19, 1977	8,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2215
	Eminent personalities (VI) Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), chemist and natural scientist , symbols of agricultural chemistry in the background	5	July 18, 1978	5,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2336
	Joseph Dietzgen (1828–1888), philosopher, book title in the background	10	July 18, 1978	15,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2337
	Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), writer, book title in the background	15th	July 18, 1978	4,500,000	Gerhard Stauf	2338
	Hans Loch (1898–1960), politician, name in the background	20th	July 18, 1978	8,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2339
	Theodor Brugsch (1878–1963), internist , in the background a sectional drawing of a person and an EKG	25th	July 18, 1978	5,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2340
	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852), founder of the German gymnastics movement, gymnast in the background	35	July 18, 1978	4,500,000	Gerhard Stauf	2341
	Albrecht von Graefe (1828–1870), ophthalmologist , instruments for ophthalmology in the background	70	July 18, 1978	2,100,000	Gerhard Stauf	2342
	Eminent personalities (VII) Otto Hahn (1879–1968), chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, in the background the formula for the fission of atoms	5	March 20, 1979	5,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2406
	Max von Laue (1879–1960), physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, in the background a Laue diagram of the zinc blende	10	March 20, 1979	16,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2407
	Carl Arthur Scheunert (1879–1957), physiologist , symbol for nutritional research in the background	20th	March 20, 1979	8,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2408
	Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), chemist, in the background the formula of the benzene ring	25th	March 20, 1979	4,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2409
	Georg Forster (1754–1794), naturalist and ethnologist , in the background research vessel Resolution from James Cook	35	March 20, 1979	4,500,000	Gerhard Stauf	2410
	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), poet and philosopher, in the background the title page to Nathan the Wise	70	March 20, 1979	2,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2411
	Eminent personalities (VIII) Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780–1849), chemist, in the background Döbereiner lighter	5	February 26, 1980	5,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2492
	Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), chemist and Nobel Prize winner, in the background model of the atom , dove of peace	10	February 26, 1980	16,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2493
	Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780–1857), ornithologist , red hawk in the background	20th	February 26, 1980	8,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2494
	Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), geophysicist and meteoreologist , in the background a map of the continental drift in the Eocene	25th	February 26, 1980	4,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2495
	Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), general and philosopher, in the background the book title Vom Kriege	35	February 26, 1980	4,500,000	Gerhard Stauf	2496
	Helene Weigel (1900–1971), actress and director , in the background building of the Berliner Ensemble	70	February 26, 1980	2,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2497
	Eminent personalities (IX) Heinrich Barkhausen (1881–1956), electrical engineer , in the background Barkhausen's tubular formula	10	May 5th 1981	16,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2603
	Johannes Robert Becher (1891–1958), writer and poet, in the background verse from the work Century	20th	May 5th 1981	8,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2604
	Richard Dedekind (1831–1916), mathematician, in the background the formula of Dedekind's cut	25th	May 5th 1981	2,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	2605
	Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), composer, sheet music in the background	35	May 5th 1981	3,500,000	Gerhard Stauf	2606
	Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), poet and naturalist , in the background branches of the California cap poppy	50	May 5th 1981	3,500,000	Gerhard Stauf	2607
	Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910), poet and narrator , in the background the book title Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse	70	May 5th 1981	3,500,000	Gerhard Stauf	2608
	Important personalities (X) Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), poet and Germanist	10	May 5th 1987	8,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	3091
	Arnold Zweig (1887–1968), writer	20th	May 5th 1987	8,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	3092
	Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner	35	May 5th 1987	3,500,000	Manfred Gottschall	3093
	Gustav Hertz (1887–1975), physicist and Nobel Prize winner	50	May 5th 1987	2,100,000	Manfred Gottschall	3094
	Eminent Personalities (XI) Ludwig Renn (1889–1979), writer	10	February 28, 1989	8,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	3230
	Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938), publicist and Nobel Prize winner	10	February 28, 1989	32,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	3231
	Adam Scharrer (1889–1948), writer	10	February 28, 1989	8,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	3232
	Rudolf Mauersberger (1889–1971), cantor of the Dresden Kreuzkirche and composer	10	February 28, 1989	8,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	3233
	Johann Beckmann (1739–1811), economist	10	February 28, 1989	8,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	3234
	Eminent personalities (XII) Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg (1790–1866), educator	10	March 20, 1990	8,000,000	Detlef Glinski	3320
	Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), writer	10	March 20, 1990	8,000,000	Detlef Glinski	3321

literature

• Michel catalog Germany 1999/2000 , Schwaneberger Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-87858-028-2
• LIPSIA color catalog GDR 1983, transpress VEB publishing house for traffic, VLN 162-925 / 197/83, SV 9197

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