Postage stamps issued in 1981 by the Deutsche Bundespost

The postage stamp year 1981 of the Deutsche Bundespost comprised 36 special stamps , definitive stamps were not issued this year. However, this year, for the first time, machine stamps were issued, which became valid on January 2nd and which had originally been assigned to the year in the catalog; this assignment later proved to be inexpedient and was canceled again, which also explains the number gap between the 1980 and 1981 years.

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 (1981)	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	100th birthday of Elly Heuss-Knapp (1881–1952)	60	15. January	31,650,000	Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski	1082
	International Year of the Disabled	60	15. January	32,650,000	Arthur Loeffelhardt	1083
	European monument protection campaign "Renaissance of the Cities" historical cityscape	60	15. January	31,000,000	Otto Rohse	1084
	300th birthday of Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)	60	February 12th	31,200,000	Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski	1085
	Integration of foreign worker families German families visiting a foreign family	50	February 12th	32,650,000	Albrecht goodbye	1086
	environmental Protection Butterfly , fish and branch of a tree , half damaged by harmful environmental influences	60	February 12th	31,000,000	Heinz Schillinger	1087
	European Patent Organization Munich	60	February 12th	31,000,000	Erwin Poell	1088
	Health through cancer prevention Scintigram	40	February 12th	31,000,000	Werner Götzinger	1089
	For the youth , historical optical instruments Borda circle around 1800	40 + 20	10th of April	6,196,000	Heinz Schillinger	1090
	Mirror telescope around 1770	50 + 25	10th of April	6,283,000	Heinz Schillinger	1091
	Binocular microscope around 1860	60 + 30	10th of April	6,227,000	Heinz Schillinger	1092
	Octant around 1775	90 + 45	10th of April	5,976,000	Heinz Schillinger	1093
	For sport rowing	60 + 30	10th of April	6,949,000	Gerd Aretz	1094
	Gliding	90 + 45	10th of April	6,214,000	Gerd Aretz	1095
	European brands folklore Traditional costume from the Black Forest	50	May 7th	116,541,000	Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski	1096
	Traditional costume from Friesland	60	May 7th	156,541,000	Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski	1097
	19th German Evangelical Church Congress in Hamburg Jerusalem cross and horizontal lines	50	May 7th	31,450,000	Günter Jacki	1098
	450th anniversary of the death of Tilman Riemenschneider (around 1460–1531) Detail from a crucifixion altar around 1485 to 1490	60	May 7th	33,750,000	Bruno K. Wiese	1099
	Polar research German Antarctic Research Station Georg von Neumayer Station	110	16th of July	22,300,000	Rainer Blumenstein	1100
	Energy research Solar module	50	16th of July	28,800,000	Ernst Jünger	1101
	Animal welfare Chick of a coot Fulica atra	60	16th of July	33,300,000	Erna de Vries	1102
	Development cooperation Four hands of different skin colors holding each other	90	16th of July	21,700,000	Albrecht goodbye	1103
	150th birthday of Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910)	50	13 August	33,550,000	Bruno K. Wiese	1104
	Basic ideas of democracy constitutional state	40	13 August	33,750,000	Günter Jacki	1105
	Separation of powers	50	13 August	34,400,000	Günter Jacki	1106
	Popular sovereignty	60	13 August	35,500,000	Günter Jacki	1107
	Welfare marks : endangered bog , marsh meadow and aquatic plants Water hazel , Trapa natans	40 + 20	8th October	16,589,000	Heinz Schillinger	1108
	Sea jug , Nymphoides peltata	50 + 25	8th October	14,906,000	Heinz Schillinger	1109
	Water feather , Hottonia palustris	60 + 30	8th October	18,040,000	Heinz Schillinger	1110
	Water lobelia , Lobelia dortmanna	90 + 45	8th October	7,627,000	Heinz Schillinger	1111
	day of the stamp Scene at a post office around 1855	60	8th October	31,825,000	Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski	1112
	Christmas stamp The birth of Christ, reverse glass painting from Sandl around 1840	60 + 30	November 12th	11,568,000	Paul Froitzheim	1113
	750th anniversary of the death of Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207–1231) Lübeck Elisabeth cycle, detail from plate 16	50	November 12th	30,775,000	Rolf leather bow	1114
	150th anniversary of the death of Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831)	60	November 12th	32,200,000	Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski	1115
	100 years of social security	60	November 12th	32,000,000	Coordt from Mannstein	1116
	20 years of the Antarctic Treaty Antarctica map	110	November 12th	23,950,000	Ernst Jünger	1117