Postage stamps from 1957 issued by the GDR Deutsche Post

5 pf.	10 pf.	15 Pf.
20 pf.	25 Pf.	30 Pf.
40 Pf.	50 pf.	70 pf.
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
image	description	value	Issue date (1957)	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Leipzig Spring Fair 1957 10,000 t motor cargo ship	10	1st March	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Axel Bengs , Rudolf Skribelka	559
	Electric locomotive ( PKP class E05 )	25th	1st March	March 31, 1959	4,000,000	Axel Bengs, Rudolf Skribelka	560
	Nature Conservation Week in April 1957 Silver thistle ( Carlina acaulis )	5	12. April	March 31, 1959	1,100,000	Engelbert schooner	561
	Green lizard ( Lacerta viridis )	10	12. April	March 31, 1959	4,000,000	Engelbert schooner	562
	Marien 's Lady 's Slipper ( Cypripedium calceolus )	20th	12. April	March 31, 1959	4,000,000	Engelbert schooner	563
	175th birthday of Friedrich Froebel Children playing in Froebel's garden	10	April 18	March 31, 1959	1,100,000	Axel Bengs	564
	Educator Friedrich Froebel in front of children playing	20th	April 18	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Axel Bengs	565
	Establishment of national memorials View of the memorial of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Memorial with the sculpture “Bearers” by Will Lammert	5 + 5	April 25	March 31, 1959	1,500,000	Rudolf Skribelka	566
	View of the memorial of the Ravensbrück concentration camp memorial from the air with a view of the Schwedtsee	20 + 10	April 25	March 31, 1959	1,500,000	Rudolf Skribelka	567
	X. International Long Distance Cycling for Peace Prague – Berlin – Warsaw The third stage was forgotten in the illustration. Route sketch with landmarks of the state capitals ( Charles Bridge , Red City Hall , Palace of Culture )	5	April, 30th	March 31, 1959	9,000,000	Bruno Petersen	568
	Coal mining Bucket wheel excavator	10	May 3rd	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Gerhard Hot	569
	Conveyor bridge in the open pit	20th	May 3rd	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Gerhard Hot	570
	Miner on site	25th	May 3rd	March 31, 1959	1,100,000	Gerhard Hot	571
	World Red Cross Day Henry Dunant , co-founder of the Red Cross, in front of a stylized globe	10	May 7th	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Hajo Rose and Harry Prieß	572
	Henry Dunant in old age in front of a stylized globe	25th	May 7th	March 31, 1959	4,000,000	Hajo Rose and Harry Prieß	573
	Famous scientists Doctor Joachim Jungius in the colored oval	5	June 7th	March 31, 1959	1,100,000	Hanns Zethmeyer	574
	Mathematician Leonhard Euler in a colored oval	10	June 7th	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Hanns Zethmeyer	575
	Physicist Heinrich Hertz in the colored oval	20th	June 7th	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Hanns Zethmeyer	576
	Paintings from the Dresden Gemäldegalerie returned from the USSR (II) “ Holy Family with Saints Elisabeth and Joseph” by Andrea Mantegna	5	June 26th	March 31, 1959	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	586
	“The dancer Barbarina Campanini ” by Rosalba Carriera	10	June 26th	March 31, 1959	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	587
	"Portrait of Sieur de Morette" by Hans Holbein the Younger	15th	June 26th	March 31, 1959	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	588
	" The Interest Groschen " by Tizian	20th	June 26th	March 31, 1959	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	589
	“ Saskia with the red flower” by Rembrandt	25th	June 26th	March 31, 1959	6,000,000	Erich Gruner	590
	“A young standard-bearer ” by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta	40	June 26th	March 31, 1959	1,100,000	Erich Gruner	591
	100th birthday of Clara Zetkin Portrait of the KPD politician Clara Zetkin next to a red carnation	10	5th July	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Rudolf Skribelka	592
	1st anniversary of Bertolt Brecht's death Portrait of the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht	10	August 14th	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Ingeborg Friebel	593
	Portrait of the playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht	25th	August 14th	March 31, 1959	3,000,000	Ingeborg Friebel	594
	IV. World Trade Union Congress , Leipzig Emblem of the 4th World Trade Union Congress (two stylized hemispheres with a banner)	20th	August 23	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Peterpaul White	595
	Leipzig Autumn Fair 1957 Sample fair symbol "MM" over the year 1957	20th	August 23	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Rudolf Skribelka	596
	Sample fair symbol "MM" over the year 1957	25th	August 23	March 31, 1959	4,000,000	Rudolf Skribelka	597
	Savings weeks Passbook with tape	10	October 10th	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Herbert Grohmann	598
	Passbook with tape	20th	October 10th	March 31, 1959	1,100,000	Herbert Grohmann	599
	Stamp Day 1957 Post rider around 1563	5	October 25	March 31, 1959	6,000,000	Axel Bengs	600
	40th anniversary of the October Revolution Rifle arm before the storm on the Winter Palace	10	November 7th	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	John Heartfield	601
	Rifle arm before the storm on the Winter Palace	25th	November 7th	March 31, 1959	3,500,000	John Heartfield	602
	International geophysical year 1957-1958 Earth satellite " Sputnik 1 4.X.1957 " in front of the earth and the moon	10	November 7th	March 31, 1959	8,000,000	Ernst Vogenauer	603
	1st anniversary of Günther Ramin and Hermann Abendroth's death Portrait of the organist and Thomas Cantor Günther Ramins	10	22nd of November	March 31, 1959	1,000,000	Peterpaul White	604
	Portrait of the conductor Hermann Abendroth	20th	22nd of November	March 31, 1959	5,000,000	Peterpaul White	605
	Establishment of national memorials . Anti-fascists murdered in Buchenwald This and the following two brands were in 1958 and together in a cut miniature sheet issued (Mi. 606 B-608 B). Portrait of the KPD politician Ernst Thälmann	20 + 10	3rd of December	March 31, 1959	2,000,000	Axel Bengs, Rudolf Skribelka	606 A
	Portrait of the SPD politician Rudolf Breitscheid	25 + 15	3rd of December	March 31, 1959	2,000,000	Axel Bengs, Rudolf Skribelka	607 A
	Portrait of the Protestant theologian Paul Schneider	40 + 20	3rd of December	March 31, 1959	2,000,000	Axel Bengs, Rudolf Skribelka	608 A
Definitive stamps
image	description	value	Issue date (1957)	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Definitive series: five-year plan (V) , printing: VEB Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (DWD) , watermark No. 3 (GDR around finial), perforation: K 13:12 1/2 Woman at the column wheel	5	March	December 31, 1962	unknown	Erich Gruner	577 A
	Farmer and worker exchange experiences	10	January	December 31, 1962	unknown	Erich Gruner	578 A
	Steel smelter, smelter	15th	January	December 31, 1962	unknown	Erich Gruner	579 A
	Berlin, Stalinallee	20th	May	May 31, 1962	unknown	Erich Gruner	580 A
	Construction of the class 52 steam locomotive	25th	January	December 31, 1962	unknown	Erich Gruner	581
	Folk dance	30th	January	December 31, 1962	unknown	Erich Gruner	582 A
	Dresden, kennel	40	January	December 31, 1962	unknown	Erich Gruner	583 A
	Ocean ship on piles at the ship's christening	50	May	December 31, 1962	unknown	Erich Gruner	584 A
	Family in front of the skyscraper on Weberwiese (Berlin)	70	January	December 31, 1962	unknown	Erich Gruner	585 A
	Definitive series: Airmail stamps (I) , printing: VEB Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (DWD) Stylized jet aircraft to the left (top view) in a colored frame	5	13th December	October 2, 1990	unknown	Ernst Vogenauer	609
	Stylized jet aircraft to the left (top view) in a colored frame	20th	13th December	October 2, 1990	unknown	Ernst Vogenauer	610
	Stylized jet aircraft to the left (top view) in a colored frame	35	13th December	October 2, 1990	18,000,000	Ernst Vogenauer	611
	Stylized jet aircraft to the left (top view) in a colored frame	50	13th December	October 2, 1990	unknown	Ernst Vogenauer	612
	Stylized jet aircraft to the left (top view) without a colored frame	1 DM	13th December	October 2, 1990	unknown	Ernst Vogenauer	613
	Stylized jet aircraft to the left (top view) without a colored frame	3 DM	13th December	October 2, 1990	4,500,000	Ernst Vogenauer	614
	Stylized jet aircraft to the left (top view) without a colored frame	5 DM	13th December	October 2, 1990	4,500,000	Ernst Vogenauer	615
	Definitive series: President Wilhelm Pieck (IV) , printing: VEB Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (DWD) , watermark No. 3 (GDR around finial), gravure printing Portrait of Wilhelm Pieck	1 DM	1957	March 31, 1962	unknown	Kurt Eigler	622

Remarks

1. ↑ Further information in: (Peter Tichatzky: Bunte DDR-Briefmarkenwelt. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 59: One stage is missing, ISBN 978-3-359-02297-8 )
2. ↑ 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

Web links

Commons : Postage stamps of the Federal Republic, Berlin and the GDR from 1957  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Postage stamps from other countries 1957  - Collection of images, videos and audio files