Postage stamps from 1957 issued by the GDR Deutsche Post
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Continuous series: 5-year plan of the GDR (V) |
The postage stamp year 1957 of the Deutsche Post of the German Democratic Republic comprises 41 special stamps, only slightly fewer values than in 1956, when 48 values were brought to the counter.
The GDR Post also issued 18 definitive stamps , of which 7 values with denominations of up to 5 DM were specifically intended as airmail stamps , which, however, could also be used for normal franking purposes without restriction.
In September the second stamp booklet of the GDR Post was issued for 2 DM. It contained three booklet sheets with a total of 6 values of 5 pounds , 7 pounds 10 and 5 pounds 20 of the 5-year plan series. The new edition of the definitive stamps and the stamp booklet with the 5-year plan motifs was due to the new watermark paper used by the securities printing company .
A total of 48 motifs were issued. A surcharge of between 5 and 20 pfennigs had to be paid for 5 special stamps .
Since 1955 , a value, and almost all were in most special stamp sets usually block and from 1962 appeared little sheet issues in significantly reduced edition printed. These so-called values in small circulation were, apart from a delivery limited to two items per postal customer, on the first day of issue and on the first day after the expiry of the collection period, only with a collector's pass at the post office counters or via a direct purchase from the dispatch point of the Deutsche Post available in Berlin . In this brand year, the circulation of these values was 1,100,000 copies.
From this year onwards, paper with the watermark No. 3 ( GDR around Kreuzblume ) was used throughout .
The validity of the issues mostly ended on March 31, 1959; only the issue for the murdered resistance fighters had postage paid for a year longer. The postal use of the 5-year plan definitive stamps, with the exception of the value of 20 Pf (May 31, 1962), did not end until December 31, 1962. The 7 airmail stamps, on the other hand, could be used until October 2, 1990, the end of the GDR and theirs Post, to be used.
particularities
This stamp year continued with the edition series on the Leipzig trade fairs (two values each), on the Peace Tour and on the paintings in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie that were returned from the USSR. The construction of concentration camp memorials was again recognized with two values for the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp and, for the first time, three values for resistance fighters murdered during the Nazi era . The latter edition, with Ernst Thälmann, Rudolf Breitscheid and Paul Schneider, symbolically unites the different political camps of the resistance; However, the bourgeois camp was excluded here, and this for a long time in the issuing policy of the GDR Post. Otherwise, political issues were treated sparingly. There was only one value for the 4th World Trade Union Congress and two values for the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution.
A striking number of personalities' anniversaries or their deaths were taken into account in the brand image. So one thought u. a. the birthdays of Friedrich Fröbel, Heinrich Hertz and Clara Zetkin and the first days of death of Bertolt Brecht, Günter Ramin and Hermann Abendroth. The sentence "Famous Personalities", which hit the counters on June 7th, with which, in addition to Hertz, Joachim Jungius and Leonhard Euler were also honored, although from a different designer, again the motif design of the issue "250 Years of the Academy of Sciences" by 1950 on. Issues on nature conservation, the World Red Cross Day and the International Geophysical Year rounded off the brand year.
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.
- Valid To: The date on which the validity ended.
- 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.
Special stamps |
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image | description | value |
Issue date (1957) |
Date of Expiry | Edition | draft | Mi. -No. |
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Leipzig Spring Fair 1957 | 10 | 1st March | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Axel Bengs , Rudolf Skribelka | 559 |
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25th | 1st March | March 31, 1959 | 4,000,000 | Axel Bengs, Rudolf Skribelka | 560 | |
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Nature Conservation Week in April 1957
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5 | 12. April | March 31, 1959 | 1,100,000 | Engelbert schooner | 561 |
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10 | 12. April | March 31, 1959 | 4,000,000 | Engelbert schooner | 562 |
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20th | 12. April | March 31, 1959 | 4,000,000 | Engelbert schooner | 563 |
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175th birthday of Friedrich Froebel
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10 | April 18 | March 31, 1959 | 1,100,000 | Axel Bengs | 564 |
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20th | April 18 | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Axel Bengs | 565 |
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Establishment of national memorials
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5 + 5 | April 25 | March 31, 1959 | 1,500,000 | Rudolf Skribelka | 566 |
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20 + 10 | April 25 | March 31, 1959 | 1,500,000 | Rudolf Skribelka | 567 |
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X. International Long Distance Cycling for Peace Prague – Berlin – Warsaw
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5 | April, 30th | March 31, 1959 | 9,000,000 | Bruno Petersen | 568 |
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Coal mining | 10 | May 3rd | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Gerhard Hot | 569 |
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20th | May 3rd | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Gerhard Hot | 570 |
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25th | May 3rd | March 31, 1959 | 1,100,000 | Gerhard Hot | 571 | |
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World Red Cross Day
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10 | May 7th | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Hajo Rose and Harry Prieß | 572 |
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25th | May 7th | March 31, 1959 | 4,000,000 | Hajo Rose and Harry Prieß | 573 |
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Famous scientists
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5 | June 7th | March 31, 1959 | 1,100,000 | Hanns Zethmeyer | 574 |
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10 | June 7th | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Hanns Zethmeyer | 575 |
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20th | June 7th | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Hanns Zethmeyer | 576 |
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Paintings from the Dresden Gemäldegalerie returned from the USSR (II)
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5 | June 26th | March 31, 1959 | 6,000,000 | Erich Gruner | 586 |
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10 | June 26th | March 31, 1959 | 6,000,000 | Erich Gruner | 587 |
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15th | June 26th | March 31, 1959 | 6,000,000 | Erich Gruner | 588 |
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20th | June 26th | March 31, 1959 | 6,000,000 | Erich Gruner | 589 |
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25th | June 26th | March 31, 1959 | 6,000,000 | Erich Gruner | 590 | |
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40 | June 26th | March 31, 1959 | 1,100,000 | Erich Gruner | 591 |
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100th birthday of Clara Zetkin
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10 | 5th July | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Rudolf Skribelka | 592 |
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1st anniversary of Bertolt Brecht's death
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10 | August 14th | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Ingeborg Friebel | 593 |
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25th | August 14th | March 31, 1959 | 3,000,000 | Ingeborg Friebel | 594 |
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IV. World Trade Union Congress , Leipzig
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20th | August 23 | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Peterpaul White | 595 |
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Leipzig Autumn Fair 1957
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20th | August 23 | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Rudolf Skribelka | 596 |
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25th | August 23 | March 31, 1959 | 4,000,000 | Rudolf Skribelka | 597 |
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Savings weeks
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10 | October 10th | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Herbert Grohmann | 598 |
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20th | October 10th | March 31, 1959 | 1,100,000 | Herbert Grohmann | 599 |
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Stamp Day 1957
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5 | October 25 | March 31, 1959 | 6,000,000 | Axel Bengs | 600 |
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40th anniversary of the October Revolution
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10 | November 7th | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | John Heartfield | 601 |
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25th | November 7th | March 31, 1959 | 3,500,000 | John Heartfield | 602 |
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International geophysical year 1957-1958
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10 | November 7th | March 31, 1959 | 8,000,000 | Ernst Vogenauer | 603 |
1st anniversary of Günther Ramin and Hermann Abendroth's death
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10 | 22nd of November | March 31, 1959 | 1,000,000 | Peterpaul White | 604 | |
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20th | 22nd of November | March 31, 1959 | 5,000,000 | Peterpaul White | 605 | |
Establishment of national memorials . Anti-fascists murdered in Buchenwald
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20 + 10 | 3rd of December | March 31, 1959 | 2,000,000 | Axel Bengs, Rudolf Skribelka | 606 A | |
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25 + 15 | 3rd of December | March 31, 1959 | 2,000,000 | Axel Bengs, Rudolf Skribelka | 607 A | |
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40 + 20 | 3rd of December | March 31, 1959 | 2,000,000 | Axel Bengs, Rudolf Skribelka | 608 A | |
Definitive stamps |
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image | description | value |
Issue date (1957) |
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Definitive series: five-year plan (V) , printing: VEB Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (DWD) , watermark No. 3 (GDR around finial), perforation: K 13:12 1/2
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5 | March | December 31, 1962 | unknown | Erich Gruner | 577 A |
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10 | January | December 31, 1962 | unknown | Erich Gruner | 578 A |
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15th | January | December 31, 1962 | unknown | Erich Gruner | 579 A |
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20th | May | May 31, 1962 | unknown | Erich Gruner | 580 A |
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25th | January | December 31, 1962 | unknown | Erich Gruner | 581 |
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30th | January | December 31, 1962 | unknown | Erich Gruner | 582 A | |
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40 | January | December 31, 1962 | unknown | Erich Gruner | 583 A |
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50 | May | December 31, 1962 | unknown | Erich Gruner | 584 A |
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70 | January | December 31, 1962 | unknown | Erich Gruner | 585 A |
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Definitive series: Airmail stamps (I) , printing: VEB Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (DWD)
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5 | 13th December | October 2, 1990 | unknown | Ernst Vogenauer | 609 |
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20th | 13th December | October 2, 1990 | unknown | Ernst Vogenauer | 610 |
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35 | 13th December | October 2, 1990 | 18,000,000 | Ernst Vogenauer | 611 |
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50 | 13th December | October 2, 1990 | unknown | Ernst Vogenauer | 612 |
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1 DM | 13th December | October 2, 1990 | unknown | Ernst Vogenauer | 613 |
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3 DM | 13th December | October 2, 1990 | 4,500,000 | Ernst Vogenauer | 614 |
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5 DM | 13th December | October 2, 1990 | 4,500,000 | Ernst Vogenauer | 615 |
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Definitive series: President Wilhelm Pieck (IV) , printing: VEB Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (DWD) , watermark No. 3 (GDR around finial), gravure printing
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1 DM | 1957 | March 31, 1962 | unknown | Kurt Eigler | 622 |
Remarks
- ↑ Further information in: (Peter Tichatzky: Bunte DDR-Briefmarkenwelt. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 59: One stage is missing, ISBN 978-3-359-02297-8 )
- ↑ The GDR universal catalog (p. 253, see literature) records this value under the number 380 as it was only published in 1958. Since the registration of the stamps of the GDR Post was based on the Michel cataloging, this information is followed here.
literature
- Michel catalog Germany Special 1999 , Munich, Schwaneberger Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-87858-132-7 .
- Peter Fischer among others: GDR universal catalog . Berlin, transpress publishing house for transport 1986, ISBN 3-344-00001-2 .
See also
- Space travel on postage stamps of the GDR Deutsche Post
- Stamp pads of the German Post of the GDR
- Postage stamp year 1957 of the Deutsche Bundespost
- Postage stamp year 1957 of the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin
- Postage stamps from 1957 of the Deutsche Bundespost Saarland