Postage stamp year 1961 of the Deutsche Bundespost

5 pf.	7 Pf.	8 pf.	10 pf.
15 Pf.	20 pf.	25 Pf.	30 Pf.
40 Pf.	50 pf.	60 pf.	70 pf.
80 Pf.	90 Pf.	1 DM	2 DM
Continuous series: important Germans

The 1961 postage stamps issued by the Deutsche Bundespost comprised 13  special stamps and 16 definitive stamps .

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	Values in pennies	Issue date (1961)	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	50 years of scouts in Germany Patron saint of scouts, St. George (dragon slayer)	10	April 22	December 31, 1962	30,000,000	Eduard Ege	346
	75 years of motorization of transport First motor car from Gottlieb Daimler	10	3rd of July	December 31, 1962	30,000,000	Siegmund	363
	First motor car from Carl Benz	20th	3rd of July	December 31, 1962	20,000,000	Siegmund	364
	The letter in the course of five centuries Nuremberg messenger around 1700	7th	August 31	December 31, 1963	30,000,000	Reinhart Heinsdorff	365
	900 years of Speyer Cathedral	20th	September 2nd	December 31, 1963	20,000,000	Eduard Ege	366
	European stamp 19 pigeons arranged in a large pigeon	10	September 18	December 31, 1963	99.090.500	Kurpershoek	367
	19 pigeons arranged in a large pigeon	40	September 18	December 31, 1963	20,000,000	Kurpershoek	368
	Charity stamps , Hansel and Gretel Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm Hansel throws breadcrumbs on the path	7 + 3	October 2nd	December 31, 1963	9,750,000	Bert Hunter	369
	Hansel and Gretel come to the witch's house	10 + 5	October 2nd	December 31, 1963	15,250,000	Bert Hunter	370
	The witch tries to fatten Hansel	20 + 10	October 2nd	December 31, 1963	12,000,000	Bert Hunter	371
	The father and his children are happy about their return home	40 + 20	October 2nd	December 31, 1963	6,000,000	Bert Hunter	372
	100 years of Philipp Reis telephone Philipp Reis's phone around 1861	10	October 26th	December 31, 1963	30,000,000	Karl Oskar bubble	373
Token was not issued	bread for the World Starving child with food bowl	20th	December 1, 1961	November 1961		Reinhart Heinsdorff	X
	150th birthday of Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811–1877) Catholic Bishop and MP	10	December 22	December 31, 1963	20,000,000	Erika and Gerd Aretz	374
Definitive stamps
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date (1961)	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	MiNr.
Letterpress, values ​​from 5 to 25 pfennigs intaglio, values ​​from 30 pfennigs to 2 DM	Definitive series: important Germans (stamp series) Albertus Magnus (around 1200–1280), beatified in 1622 and canonized in 1931	5	September 18	December 31, 1970	855,950,000	Michel + Kieser	347
	Landgravine Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207–1231), also Elisabeth of Hungary	7th	3rd August		1,028,500,000		348
	Johannes Gensfleisch, called Gutenberg (around 1400–1468), is considered to be the inventor of letterpress printing with movable metal letters	8th	3rd August		51,500,000		349
	Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), painter , graphic artist , mathematician and art theorist	10	15th June		4,494,100,000		350
	Martin Luther (1483–1546), theological author and teacher of the Reformation	15th	September 18		2,496,600,000		351
	Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), composer of the Baroque	20th	June 28th		4,444,600,000		352
	Johann Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753), builder of the Baroque and Rococo	25th	October 7th		243,600,000		353
	Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), important philosopher	30th	October 7th		100,200,000		354
	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), one of the most important poets of the Enlightenment	40	June 28th		516,600,000		355
	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), poet , playwright , theater director , natural scientist , art theorist and statesman	50	December 1		141,000,000		356
	Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), poet, playwright, philosopher and historian	60	April 12, 1962		106,000,000		357
	Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), composer of the Viennese Classic	70	December 1		282,500,000		358
	Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811), playwright, storyteller , poet , publicist and patriot	80	December 1		155,000,000		359
	Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), doctor , sociologist , economist and Zionist	90	3rd August 1964		40,000,000		360
	Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848) is considered one of the most important German poets	1 DM	September 18		177,000,000		361
	Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), German writer , 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature	2 DM	April 12, 1962		72,000,000		362

See also

• Postage stamps from 1961 issued by the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin
• Postage stamps from 1961 issued by the GDR Deutsche Post

literature

• Michel catalog Germany 2006/2007 (paperback), Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH (2006), ISBN 3-87858-035-5

Web links

Commons : Postage stamps of the Federal Republic and West Berlin from 1961  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Postage stamps of the GDR from 1961  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Postage stamps from other countries 1961  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

1. ↑ At the same time, the Deutsche Bundespost in Berlin published the series with the additional text Berlin , but without the 90 Pfennig value with the illustration of Franz Oppenheimer.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} For values ​​from 5 to 20 and 40 pfennigs, partial editions were issued on paper without fluorescence, philatelists distinguish this feature.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Although the 60 Pfennig and 2 DM postage stamps were only issued in 1962 and the 90 Pfennig postage stamp in 1964, they count towards this set with the year of issue 1961 and are therefore counted among the 1961 postage stamps.