Postage stamps from 1970 of the Deutsche Bundespost

5 pf.	10 pf.	20 pf.	1 DM
Series: Federal President Gustav Heinemann

The postage stamps issued by the Deutsche Bundespost in 1970 comprised 34  special stamps and four definitive stamps . The definitive stamps were also issued by the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin . The complete 1970 stamp series was still available from Deutsche Post in 2012 .

That year began a new series of definitive stamps with the portrait of Federal President Gustav Heinemann ; 21 values ​​(Berlin: 23) were issued over the years. It was the last series with the image of a Federal President.

All postage stamps issued since January 1, 1969 had unlimited postage validity and there was no expiration date as in previous years. With the introduction of the euro as a common European currency on January 1, 2002, this regulation became obsolete. However, the stamps of this year could be used until June 30, 2002. An exchange was possible until September 30th in the branches of the Deutsche Post , after that until June 30th, 2003 centrally in the Philately branch of Deutsche Post AG in Frankfurt.

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.

Special stamps
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date (1970)	Edition	draft	Mi. -No .
	For the youth : minstrels Miniature of the Weingartner song manuscript Heinrich von Rugge	10 + 5	February 5th	7,359,000	Paul Froitzheim	612
	Miniature of the Great Heidelberg Song Manuscript Wolfram von Eschenbach	20 + 10	February 5th	10,790,000	Paul Froitzheim	613
	Miniature of the Great Heidelberg Song Manuscript Walther von Metz	30 + 15	February 5th	7,234,000	Paul Froitzheim	614
	Miniature of the Weingartner song manuscript Walther von der Vogelweide	50 + 25	February 5th	6,236,000	Paul Froitzheim	615
	200th birthday of: Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827, composer	10	March, 20th	30,000,000	Heinz Schillinger	616
	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1831, philosopher	20th	March, 20th	30,000,000	Heinz Schillinger	617
	Friedrich Holderlin 1770–1843, poet	30th	March, 20th	30,000,000	Heinz Schillinger	618
	National stamp exhibition Sabria 1970 in Saarbrücken Motif of a stamp from 1947	30th	April 29	30,000,000	Erwin Poell	619
	European brands Wattle as a symbol of the sun	20th	May 4th	50,000,000	Le Brocquy	620
	Wattle as a symbol of the sun	30th	May 4th	95,000,000	Le Brocquy	621
	Series: Tourism Oberammergau	30th	May 11th	30,000,000	Heinz Schillinger	622
	250th birthday of the Baron von Münchhausen Motif based on the story The severed horse	20th	May 11th	30,000,000	Stefula	623
	1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Buildings in Munich residence	10 + 5	June 5th	7,691,000	Herbert Kern	624
	Propylaea	20 + 10	June 5th	7,414,000	Herbert Kern	625
	Glyptothek	30 + 15	June 5th	7,402,000	Herbert Kern	626
	Bavaria and Hall of Fame	50 + 25	June 5th	7,099,000	Herbert Kern	627
	75 years of the Kiel Canal Canal tunnel Rendsburg and passenger ship	20th	18th of June	30,000,000	Karl Oskar bubble	628
	Voluntary service technical aid organization Oxygen lance in use	5	21st September	50,000,000	Förtsch and v. Baumgarten	629
	Mountain Rescue Abseiling a victim	10	21st September	30,000,000	Förtsch and v. Baumgarten	630
	Care assistant Care of the disabled	20th	18th of June	30,000,000	Förtsch and v. Baumgarten	631
	fire Department Fire fighting	30th	18th of June	30,000,000	Förtsch and v. Baumgarten	632
	Accident protection Help after a traffic accident	50	21st September	20,000,000	Förtsch and v. Baumgarten	633
	German Life Saving Society Rescuing a drowning man	70	21st September	20,000,000	Förtsch and v. Baumgarten	634
	Catholic world mission Cross shining through industrial glass	20th	August 25	30,000,000	Staedler	647
	German Catholic Day 1970 in Trier	20th	September 4th	30,000,000	Paul Froitzheim	648
	Series: Tourism City view of Cochem on the Moselle	20th	21st September	30,000,000	Heinz Schillinger	649
	Charitable stamps : puppets Marionettes from the Munich Puppet Theater Collection fool	10 + 5	October 6th	15,335,000	Erna de Vries	650
	Hanswurst	20 + 10	October 6th	15,565,000	Erna de Vries	651
	clown	30 + 15	October 6th	16,287,000	Erna de Vries	652
	harlequin	50 + 25	October 6th	8,569,000	Erna de Vries	653
	Series: Tourism Freiburg im Breisgau , cityscape with Munster and Black Forest silhouette	20th	November 4th	30,000,000	Heinz Schillinger	654
	Christmas stamp Angel , nativity figure from the Ursuline convent Innsbruck	10 + 5	November 12th	11,861,000	Erna de Vries	655
	300th anniversary of the death of Johann Amos Comenius 1592–1670, philosopher , theologian and educator	30th	November 12th	30,000,000	Heinz Schillinger	656
	150th birthday of Friedrich Engels 1820–1895, publicist and socialist	50	November 27th	20,000,000	Herbert Kern	657
Definitive stamps
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date (1970)	Edition Federal, Berlin	draft	Mi. -Nr Bund, Berlin
	Definitive series: Federal President Gustav Heinemann Start of a new series, replacement for: German buildings from twelve centuries   (Berlin edition was valid for postage until December 31, 1991 )	5	July 23	321,746,000 21,042,000	Karl Hans Walter	635 359
		10	23rd October	1,182,920,000 120,236,000		636 361
		20th	23rd October	980,136,000 117,530,000		637 362
		30th	7th January 1971	2,447,943,000 73,466,000		638 363
		40	April 8, 1971	2,128,584,000 39,837,000		639 364
		50	April 8, 1971	1,278,969,000 24,429,000		640 365
		70	April 8, 1971	210,417,000 13,822,000		641 366
		80	April 8, 1971	153,266,000 7,438,000		642 367
		90	7th January 1971	33,600,000 6,400,000		643 368
		100	July 23	275,675,000 15,359,000		644 369
		200	7th January 1971	170,095,000 9,340,000		645 370

Postage stamp forgery to the detriment of the Post

On April 15, 1970, mail appeared in Frankfurt am Main with an alleged postage stamp of the Federal Post Office, which honored the 100th birthday of WI Lenin (born April 22, 1870). The stamp is red / black and had a face value of 20 Pfennig and was produced in offset printing with a line perforation of 11. It is a forgery of postage which damages the post office. The Bundespost did not issue any such postage stamp. The forger could be found and was sentenced to a fine of 12,000 DM, which corresponds to about 21,621 euros due to inflation.

Notes and individual references

1. ^ Deutsche Post: Germany classic postage stamp year 1970
2. ↑ There were few exceptions, however; the definitive stamp series German Buildings from Twelve Centuries , the Brandenburg Gate and the special stamps in honor of the 1968 Summer Olympics in the city of Mexico were valid without restriction. These stamps were issued before 1969.
3. ↑ Changeover of stamps from DM to € ( Memento of October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ BGH, 11.10.2005 - XI ZR 395/04. Legal character and validity of postage stamps
5. ↑ Similar postage stamps with other minstrels were issued in 1970 by the Landespostdirektion Berlin.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} On January 20, 1970, the German Post Office of the GDR also issued a special stamp on the same occasion.
7. ^ First edition in the special post office in Saarbrücken at the corresponding stamp exhibition on April 29, 1970; Rest of the Federal Republic of Germany on May 4, 1970
8. ↑ Similar stamps with other puppets were also issued in 1970 by the Landespostdirektion Berlin.
9. ↑ On September 15, 1970, the GDR issued a commemorative coin and on November 24, three special stamps for the same occasion.
10. ↑ Postage stamps with the same motif with the inscription "Deutsche Bundespost Berlin" were also issued by the Landespostdirektion Berlin on the same day.
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Although this stamp was only issued in 1971, it is part of the set issued in 1970 and thus one of the stamps of the year 1970.
12. ↑ SPECIAL MARKS in Der Spiegel issue 18/1970 of April 27, 1970
13. ↑ Image of the counterfeit brand
14. ↑ Article in Der Spiegel, issue 53/1970, from December 28, 1970
15. ↑ Lenin to the detriment of the Bundespost by Schröder & Calendar on blogs.taz.de of August 29, 2006

swell

• Michel catalog Germany 1999/2000 (paperback), publisher: Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH (1999), ISBN 3-87858-028-2

See also

• Postage stamps from 1970 of the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin

Web links

Commons : Postage stamps from other countries 1970  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Youth stamps from other stamp years  - collection of images, videos and audio files