Postage stamps issued in 1978 by the Deutsche Bundespost

Christmas (block number 17)

The postage stamp year 1978 of the Deutsche Bundespost comprised 34 special stamps , four of which were only available as a stamp block. This year nine definitive stamps from the Castles and Palaces and Industry and Technology series were issued.

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.

Specialty

Originally, the Deutsche Bundespost did not intend to issue any more blocks after the issue of block 17, because the relatively large area repeatedly led to operational problems with the automatic mail set-up and stamping. However, this was only maintained until 1982, with the blocks issued afterwards for many years, either in terms of size and / or postage value, being unsuitable for disrupting the machine letter preparation and processing, as they were not suitable for standard letters.

The 70 + 35 Pfennig sports brand came under massive speculative influence in the early 1980s, as its circulation fell below the “magic limit” of five million copies for the first time in many years. The retail value of the brand quintupled within two years, only to drop again significantly.

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 (1978)	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	100th birthday of Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878–1962) Book cover	50	January 12th	31,800,000	Günter Jacki	956
	20 years of Friedlandhilfe	50	January 12th	30,200,000	Albrecht goodbye	957
	Sports aid Downhill skiing	50 + 25	January 12th	6,751,000	Peter Lorenz	958
	Stamp pad - Nobel Prize winners in German-language literature Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946)	30th	February 16	12,000,000	Gerd Aretz	Block 16 959
	Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)	50	February 16	12,000,000	Gerd Aretz	960
	Thomas Mann (1875–1955)	70	February 16	12,000,000	Gerd Aretz	961
	100th birthday of Martin Buber (1878–1965)	50	February 16	31,700,000	Gerd Aretz	962
	75 years of the German Museum in Munich Lookout tower and observatory , based on a poster by Ludwig Hohlwein	50	April 13th	30,000,000	Heinz Schillinger	963
	For the youth , aviation Balloon ride at the Oktoberfest in Munich from 1820	30 + 15	April 13th	5,921,000	Fritz Haase	964
	Airship LZ 1	40 + 20	April 13th	6,307,000	Fritz Haase	965
	Monoplane of Louis Blériot	50 + 25	April 13th	6,073,000	Fritz Haase	966
	Hans Grade monoplane	70 + 35	April 13th	5,687,000	Fritz Haase	967
	Sports aid Show jumping	70 + 35	April 13th	4,895,000	Peter Lorenz	968
	European stamps , architectural monuments Old Town Hall Bamberg	40	May 22	51,500,000	Otto Rohse	969
	Old Town Hall Regensburg	50	May 22	140,050,000	Otto Rohse	970
	Old Town Hall Esslingen	70	May 22	31,300,000	Otto Rohse	971
	Rat catcher from Hameln The Pied Piper followed by a crowd of children	50	May 22	32,800,000	Günter Jacki	972
	100th birthday of Janusz Korczak (1878–1942)	90	July 13th	20,400,000	Günter Magnus	973
	Fossils fossil bat Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon	80	July 13th	8,600,000	Paul Froitzheim	974
	fossil prehistoric horse Propalaeotherium messelense	200	July 13th	10,000,000	Paul Froitzheim	975
	Inter-parliamentary conference in Bonn Bundeshaus in Bonn	70	17th August	21,150,000	Erwin Poell	976
	85th German Catholic Day in Freiburg Rose window of the Freiburg Minster	40	17th August	34,700,000	Paul Froitzheim	977
	200th birthday of Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) The poet as a butterfly after a silhouette by Luise Duttenhofer	30th	17th August	31,550,000	Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski	978
	25 years of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights	50	17th August	31,450,000	Peter Steiner	979
	day of the stamp Post house sign Baden , around 1844	40	October 12th	59,095,750	Herbert Stelzer	980
	Saxon threesome	50	October 12th	59,095,750	Herbert Stelzer	981
	Charity stamps : forest flowers Arum , Arum maculatum	30 + 15	October 12th	15,454,000	Heinz Schillinger	982
	Golden nettle , Lamiastrum galeobdolon	40 + 20	October 12th	13,956,000	Heinz Schillinger	983
	Turkish Association , Lilium martagon	50 + 25	October 12th	16,157,000	Heinz Schillinger	984
	Hepatica , Hepatica nobilis	70 + 35	October 12th	7,154,000	Heinz Schillinger	985
	German impressionism Easter at Walchensee by Lovis Corinth	50	November 16	31,600,000	HP sound	986
	Rider to the left on the beach by Max Liebermann	70	November 16	21,100,000	HP sound	987
	Lady with a cat by Max Slevogt	120	November 16	9,800,000	HP sound	988
	Stamp pad - Christmas stamp The Christ Child, detail from a window of the Frauenkirche in Munich	50 + 25	November 16	10,356,000	Willy Fleckhaus	Block 17,989
Definitive stamps
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date (1978) Bund, Berlin	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	Definitive series: Industry and technology X-ray machine	60	November 16	3,125,000,000	Beat Knoblauch and Paul Beer	990
	Backhoe	150	July 12, 1979	50,000,000	Beat Knoblauch and Paul Beer	992
	Wheel loader	180	July 12, 1979	69,000,000	Beat Knoblauch and Paul Beer	993
	Frankfurt am Main airport	230	17th May 1979	80,000,000	Beat Knoblauch and Paul Beer	994
	Definitive series: castles and palaces Pfaueninsel Palace in Berlin	20th	February 14, 1979	unknown	Heinz Schillinger	995
	Gemen Castle	25th	January 11, 1979	unknown	Heinz Schillinger	996
	Vischering Castle	90	January 11, 1979	207,390,000	Heinz Schillinger	997
	Schwanenburg	210	February 14, 1979	107,892,000	Heinz Schillinger	998
	Lichtenberg Castle in the Palatinate	230	November 16	169,242,000	Heinz Schillinger	999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ Changeover of stamps from DM to € ( Memento of October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ BGH, October 11, 2005 - XI ZR 395/04. Legal character and validity of postage stamps
4. ↑ Postage stamps Spiegel 11/1978 u. a.
5. ↑ Michel catalogs for the years 1981 to 1985.
6. ↑ ^{a b} These stamps were only issued as a stamp pad.
7. ↑ The stamps were printed together, but they could also be purchased individually (order 40/50/40/50 etc.).
8. ↑ The same stamps with the inscription "Berlin" were issued on the same day by the Landespostdirektion Berlin.
9. ↑ In 1979 a 90-Pfennig value was expected to be issued, but this did not happen. The Michel numbers Bund 991 and Berlin 583 were kept free and were never reassigned in order not to have to change all subsequent numbers. In contrast, a 90 Pf value was issued in the series Castles and Palaces on January 11, 1979 ( Mi. -Nr. 588, 997 ).
10. ↑ First Day 21/1978.
11. ↑ ^{a b} first day sheet 14/1979.
12. ↑ The same motif was issued in 1982 with a face value of 190 pfennigs.
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Although the postage stamps with the face values ​​of 150, 180 and 230 Pfennig were only issued in 1979, they belong to the set issued in 1978 and are therefore among the stamps of 1978.
14. ↑ First day sheet 10/1979.
15. ↑ The same motif was issued in 1982 with a face value of 250 Pfennig.
16. ↑ The same stamps with the inscription "Berlin" were issued on the same day by the Landespostdirektion Berlin; only the issue for 20 Pfennig was issued in Berlin on April 14, 1977.
17. ↑ ^{a b c d} Although the stamps with the face value of 20, 25, 90 and 210 Pfennig were only issued in 1979, they are part of the set issued in 1978 and are therefore among the stamps of 1978.

literature

• Michel catalog Germany 2010/2011 (paperback), Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH (2010), ISBN 3-87858-035-5 .

See also

• Postage stamps issued in 1978 by the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin

Web links

Commons : Postage stamps of the Federal Republic, Berlin and the GDR from 1978  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Postage stamps from other countries 1978  - Collection of images, videos and audio files