Postage stamps from 1972 from the GDR Deutsche Post

Stamp blocks 1972 (blocks shown reduced by 33% compared to the individual stamps )
100 years of meteorologist meetings Michel block number 34	100 years of meteorological meetings Michel block number 35
100 years of meteorologist meetings Michel block number 36	175th birthday of Heinrich Heine Michel block number 37

The postage stamp year 1972 of the Deutsche Post of the German Democratic Republic comprised 66 individual special stamps , four stamp blocks each with one special stamp and two miniature sheets with a total of 12 special stamps. Nine postage stamps were printed together; there were two pairs with an interior decorative field. Definitive stamps were not issued in this year. There were 84 different editions in total.

All postage stamp issues since 1964 as well as the 2- mark values ​​of the definitive series President Wilhelm Pieck and the definitive series of State Council Chairman Walter Ulbricht , published since 1961, originally had unlimited postage validity . With the reunification after October 2, 1990, all brands lost their validity.

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	value	Issue date (1972)	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Famous People (VII) Johannes Tralow (1882–1968), writer and director	10	January 25th	8,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1731
	Leonhard Frank (1882–1961), writer	20th	January 25th	6,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1732
	Korla Awgust Kocor (1822–1904), composer	25th	January 25th	4,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1733
	Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), businessman and archaeologist	35	January 25th	5,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1734
	Friederike Caroline Neuber (1697–1760), actress and theater director	50	January 25th	1,900,000	Gerhard Stauf	1735
	Invincible Vietnam (VI) Vietnamese woman, farmers tilling the fields	10 + 5	February 22	5,000,000	Joachim Riess	1736
	Minerals from the collections of the Freiberg Mining Academy (II) Plaster from the Mansfeld Mulde near Eisleben	5	February 22	6,000,000	Lothar Grünewald	1737
	Smoky quartz on zinnwaldite , Zinnwald (Ore Mountains)	10	February 22	10,200,000	Lothar Grünewald	1738
	Malachite on Limonite , Ullersreuth , ( Vogtland )	20th	February 22	10,200,000	Lothar Grünewald	1739
	Amethyst , Wiesenbad (Erzgebirge)	25th	February 22	5,100,000	Lothar Grünewald	1740
	Halite , blue with Sylvin from Merkers ( Rhön )	35	February 22	6,000,000	Lothar Grünewald	1741
	Proustit , Schneeberg (Ore Mountains)	50	February 22	1,920,000	Lothar Grünewald	1742
	Leipzig Spring Fair : 50 years of participation by the USSR USSR exhibition pavilion , trade fair signs	10	7th March	8,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1743
	State flags of the GDR and USSR, trade fair symbols	25th	7th March	5,000,000	Gerhard Stauf	1744
	100 years of meteorologists' meetings This stamp was issued as a stamp block: Measuring part of an anemograph (1896), first German weather map by W. Köppen (1876)	20th	March 23	2,500,000	Manfred Gottschall	1745
	This stamp was issued as a stamp block: Cross dipole of the weather image receiving system "WES 2", cloud images from a satellite	35	March 23	2,500,000	Manfred Gottschall	1746
	This stamp was issued as a stamp block: Meteor weather satellite , modern weather map	70	March 23	2,500,000	Manfred Gottschall	1747
	World health day ; World heart month World Health Organization (WHO) emblem	35	4. April	5,100,000	Dietrich Dorfstecher	1748
	Airplanes (II) Kamow Ka 26 universal helicopter	5	April 25	5,000,000	Bormann	1749
	Z 37 agricultural aircraft	10	April 25	18,000,000	Bormann	1750
	Ilyushin IL 62 travel machine	35	April 25	5,000,000	Bormann	1751
	Jet plane , tail unit	1 M.	April 25	1,900,000	Bormann	1752
	Olympic Summer Games 1972 , Munich Wrestling	5	May 16	8,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1753
	Diving	10 + 5	May 16	5,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1754
	Pole vault	20th	May 16	13,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1755
	rowing	25 + 10	May 16	3,500,000	Manfred Gottschall	1756
	Handball	35	May 16	7,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1757
	do gymnastics	70	May 16	1,900,000	Manfred Gottschall	1758
	25 years of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) State flags of the USSR and the GDR	10	May 24th	6,000,000	Joachim Riess	1759
	Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker , state flags	20th	May 24th	5,000,000	Joachim Riess	1760
	Congress of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), Berlin This and the following stamp were issued as a composite print with a decorative field in between: Worker at the control panel, Silbitz steelworks	10	May 24th	4,000,000	Hot	1761
	Reading workers, Kulturpalast Dresden	35	May 24th	4,000,000	Hot	1762
	International Rose Exhibition , Erfurt (I) "Carnelian rose" ( hybrid tea )	5	June 13th	7,200,000	Manfred Gottschall	1763
	"Bergers Rose IGA Erfurt" ( polyantharose )	10	June 13th	8,100,000	Manfred Gottschall	1764
	"Charme" (polyantharose)	15th	June 13th	1,900,000	Manfred Gottschall	1765
	"Izetka Spreeathen" (hybrid tea)	20th	June 13th	8,100,000	Manfred Gottschall	1766
	"Izetka Köpenicker Summer" ( Floribunda rose )	25th	June 13th	4,200,000	Manfred Gottschall	1767
	"Professor Knöll" (hybrid tea)	35	June 13th	4,200,000	Manfred Gottschall	1768
	500th birthday of Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä "Portrait of a Young Man"	5	July 4th	7,000,000	Horst Naumann	1769
	"Young mother with child"	20th	July 4th	7,000,000	Horst Naumann	1770
	Portrait of " Margarete Luther "	35	July 4th	4,000,000	Horst Naumann	1771
	"Resting spring nymph "	70	July 4th	1,900,000	Horst Naumann	1772
	20 years of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST) Marching compass , motorcycle - patrol driving	5	8th August	7,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1773
	Parachutes , powered aerobatics	10	8th August	1,500,000	Manfred Gottschall	1774
	Targets , military obstacle course	20th	8th August	10,500,000	Manfred Gottschall	1775
	Amateur radio station , Morse code	25th	8th August	1,900,000	Manfred Gottschall	1776
	Sailing ship , propeller	35	8th August	5,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1777
	International Rose Exhibition , Erfurt (II) This stamp comes from a stamp booklet "Bergers Rose IGA Erfurt" ( polyantharose )	10	August 22nd	56,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1778
	This stamp comes from a stamp booklet "Izetka Köpenicker Summer" ( Floribunda rose )	25th	August 22nd	14,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1779
	This stamp comes from a stamp booklet "Professor Knöll" ( hybrid tea )	35	August 22nd	14,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1780
	International Year of the Book "Reading Young Man"; Painting by Jutta Damme	50	August 22nd	4,000,000	Horst Naumann	1781
	Leipzig Autumn Fair Daylight writing projector " Polylux "	10	29th August	7,000,000	Fritz Deutschendorf	1782
	Pentacon-Audivision : Automatic 35mm projector "Aspectomat J 24 B"	25th	29th August	5,000,000	Fritz Deutschendorf	1783
	Georgi Dimitrov's 90th birthday Georgi Dimitrov	20th	September 19th	4,500,000	Manfred Gottschall	1784
	International postage stamp exhibition Interartes , Berlin "Bird Flight Scene" (relief), Egypt (around 2400 BC)	10	September 19th	8,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1785
	"Spear bearer" (relief), Persia (around 500 BC)	15 + 5	September 19th	2,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1786
	"Animal Carpet", Anatolia (around 1400)	20th	September 19th	8,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1787
	“Wine sellers in the south of France” painting by Max Lingner	35 + 5	September 19th	4,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	1788
	German Red Cross of the GDR The following three stamps were issued as a composite: Paramedics provide help ( nursing service )	10	October 3	2,200,000	Hans Detlefsen	1789
	Lifeboat ( water rescue service )	15th	October 3	2,200,000	Hans Detlefsen	1790
	Red cross with drawn continents , means of transport for relief supplies	35	October 3	2,200,000	Hans Detlefsen	1791
	Earth and celestial globes Arabic celestial globe (1279)	5	October 17th	6,000,000	Dietrich Dorfstecher	1792
	Earth globe by J. Praetorius (1568)	10	October 17th	10,000,000	Dietrich Dorfstecher	1793
	Globe clock by J. Reinhold and G. Roll (1586)	15th	October 17th	1,900,000	Dietrich Dorfstecher	1794
	Globe clock by J. Bürgi (1590)	20th	October 17th	8,000,000	Dietrich Dorfstecher	1795
	Armillary sphere by J. Möller (1687)	25th	October 17th	5,000,000	Dietrich Dorfstecher	1796
	Heraldic celestial globe (1690)	35	October 17th	4,000,000	Dietrich Dorfstecher	1797
	International memorials and memorials Monument to the joint struggle of Polish soldiers and German anti-fascists, Berlin Volkspark Friedrichshain	25th	October 24th	4,000,000	Burst	1798
	Central Fair of the Masters of Tomorrow (MMM), Leipzig This and the following stamp were issued as a composite print with a decorative field in between: Young workers who learn	10	November 2	2,200,000	Joachim Riess	1799
	Young people at a friction welding machine	25th	November 2	2,200,000	Joachim Riess	1800
	Fairy tale (VII): The Snow Queen These and the following five stamps were issued as miniature sheets : Winter fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen Scene from the fairy tale	5	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1801
	Scene from the fairy tale	10	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1802
	Scene from the fairy tale	15th	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1803
	Scene from the fairy tale	20th	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1804
	Scene from the fairy tale	25th	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1805
	Scene from the fairy tale	35	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1806
	Figures of children's television in the GDR These and the following five stamps were issued together as miniature sheets : Mauz and Hoppel	5	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1807
	Fox and magpie	10	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1808
	Mr. Eagle Owl	15th	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1809
	Mrs. Igel and Borstel	20th	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1810
	Schnuffel and Pieps	25th	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1811
	Paulchen from the children's library	35	November 28th	2,000,000	Wind players	1812
	50 years of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics State coat of arms of the USSR	20th	December 5th	5,000,000	Lothar Grünewald	1813
	175th birthday of Heinrich Heine This stamp was issued as a stamp block: Heinrich Heine, poet and satirist	1 M.	December 5th	2,500,000	Dietrich Dorfstecher	1814
Definitive stamps
image	description	value	Issue date (1972)	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
Definitive stamps were not issued in this year

Miniature sheets and compound prints

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  Congress of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), Berlin

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  This overprint comes from a stamp booklet : Internationale Rosenausstellung , Erfurt (II)

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  German Red Cross of the GDR

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  Central Fair of the Masters of Tomorrow (MMM), Leipzig

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  Fairy tale (VII): The Snow Queen

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  Figures of children's television in the GDR

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b} A commemorative coin appeared in the GDR in 1972 on the same occasion
2. ↑ See stamp day (GDR)

literature

• Michel catalog Germany 1999/2000. Schwaneberger Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-87858-028-2 .
• LIPSIA color catalog GDR 1983. transpress, publishing house for traffic, 1983, DNB 203661915 .

See also

• Space travel on postage stamps of the GDR Deutsche Post
• Stamp pads of the German Post of the GDR
• Postage stamps from 1972 of the Deutsche Bundespost
• Postage stamps from 1972 of the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin

Web links

Commons : Postage stamps of the Federal Republic, Berlin and the GDR from 1972  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Postage stamps from other countries 1972  - Collection of images, videos and audio files