Postage stamps from 1961 issued by the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin

5 pf.	7 Pf.	8 pf.	10 pf.
15 Pf.	20 pf.	25 Pf.	30 Pf.
40 Pf.	50 pf.	70 pf.	80 Pf.
1 DM
Series: Important Germans

The 1961 stamps issued by the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin comprised five special stamps and 13 definitive stamps .

The nominal value of the brands was DM 5.50  .

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.
	10th anniversary of the death of Hans Böckler (1875–1951) Union official	20th	February 16	December 31, 1962	15,000,000	Michel + Kieser	197
	4th anniversary of the death of Louise Schroeder (1887–1957) Governing Mayor of Berlin from May 1947 to December 1948	20th	3rd of June	December 31, 1962	4,000,000	Rudolf Gerhardt	198
	Evangelical Church Congress Marienkirche next to the Jerusalem cross , the symbol of the Evangelical Church Congress	10	July 19	December 31, 1963	7,000,000	Rudolf Gerhardt	215
	Ruin of the Memorial Church next to the Jerusalem Cross	20th	July 19	December 31, 1963	5,000,000	Rudolf Gerhardt	216
	Radio, television and phono exhibition in Berlin Exhibition poster with a Berlin bear , television and record	20th	3rd August	December 31, 1963	7,000,000	Rudolf Gerhardt	217
Definitive stamps
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date (1961)	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	Definitive stamps important Germans (stamp series) Albertus Magnus (around 1200–1280), beatified in 1622 and canonized in 1931	5	September 18	December 31, 1970	72,500,000	Michel + Kieser	199
	Landgravine Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207–1231), also Elisabeth of Hungary	7th	3rd August		20,000,000		200
	Johannes Gensfleisch, called Gutenberg (around 1400–1468), is considered to be the inventor of letterpress printing with movable metal letters	8th	3rd August		56,000,000		201
	Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), painter , graphic artist , mathematician and art theorist	10	15th June		247,500,000		202
	Martin Luther (1483–1546), theological author and teacher of the Reformation	15th	September 18		30,500,000		203
	Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), composer of the Baroque	20th	June 28th		96,500,000		204
	Johann Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753), builder of the Baroque and Rococo	25th	October 7th		19,000,000		205
	Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), important philosopher	30th	October 7th		14,000,000		206
	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), one of the most important poets of the Enlightenment	40	June 28th		17,500,000		207
	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), poet , playwright , theater director , natural scientist , art theorist and statesman	50	December 1		11,500,000		208
	Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), composer of the Viennese Classic	70	December 1		17,000,000		210
	Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811), playwright, storyteller , poet and publicist	80	December 1		9,000,000		211
	Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848) is considered one of the most important German poets	1 DM	September 18		10,000,000		212

See also

• Postage stamp year 1961 of the Deutsche Bundespost
• Postage stamps from 1961 issued by the GDR Deutsche Post
• Postal history and postage stamps of Berlin

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, Berlin and 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 issued the series in West Germany, but without the text Berlin and supplemented with Franz Oppenheimer by the 90 Pfennig value that was not spent in Berlin.
2. ↑ 1962 two supplementary values appeared.

This version was included in the selection of informative lists and portals on January 11, 2009 .