2007 stamps issued by the Federal Republic of Germany

The 2007 stamp year of the Federal Republic of Germany comprised 59 special stamps, including six self-adhesive stamps and four stamp blocks.

No new definitive stamps from the flower series appeared , but a compilation of three values.

For the first time since 1982 there is a German postage stamp on which a living personality was depicted, it is Pope Benedict XVI. for his 80th birthday. Otherwise only the Federal President is entitled to this privilege , see also: Persons who were depicted on a postage stamp of the Federal Republic of Germany during their lifetime .

When the German team won the handball world championship in their own country , an additional block edition was published for Sport: 40 Years of the German Sports Aid Foundation . On the edge of the block are the years of the handball world championships won: 1938 , 1978 and 2007 . On November 9, 2008 in Beijing, the pad won 1st place in the Chinese election for the best foreign postage stamp in the “Best Print Quality” category.

In the vote for Germany's most beautiful postage stamp in 2007, the Limes block edition (Michel number: 2623 or block 72) from the “ UNESCO World Heritage Site ” series won first place. In the vote for the most beautiful European postage stamp, the pad came second with 14.84% of the vote. First place went to Switzerland (15.44%) with the pad: " Stamp Day - Einsiedeln Monastery " .

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 euro cents . 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 euro cents	Issue date (2007)	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Series: For sport with a surcharge in favor of the German Sports Aid Foundation 2007 Men's Handball World Championship	55 + 25	January 2nd	1,540,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Stefan Klein and Olaf Neumann	2578
	1000 years of the Bamberg diocese	55	January 2nd	7,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Grit Fiedler	2579
	1000 years of Fürth	45	January 2nd	10,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Susanne Oesterlee	2580
	50 years of the state of Saarland	55	January 2nd	9,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Fritz Lüdtke	2581
	50 years of rotary engines	145	January 2nd	8,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Ernst Jünger and Lorli Jünger	2582
	EU Council Presidency	55	January 2nd	7,400,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Paul Effert	2583
	1000 years of Fürth self-adhesive from booklet	45	January 2nd	167,792,000	Susanne Oesterlee	2584 MH 66
	Series: For sport with a surcharge in favor of the German Sports Aid Foundation Canoe Racing World Championship	45 + 20	February 8	1,260,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Stefan Klein and Olaf Neumann	2585
	Gymnastics World Cup	55 + 25	February 8	1,260,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Stefan Klein and Olaf Neumann	2586
	World Cup in Modern Pentathlon	145 + 55	February 8	1,250,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Stefan Klein and Olaf Neumann	2587
	300th birthday of Johann Christian Senckenberg	90	February 8	7,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Angela Kühn	2588
	Stamp Pad - Series: Stamp Day with a surcharge in favor of the Foundation for Philately and Postal History Historical airship traffic to South America	170 + 70	1st March	1,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Günter Gamroth	Block 69 2589
	Series: Upright Democrats 100th birthday of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and Helmuth James Graf von Moltke	55	1st March	6,600,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Irmgard Hesse	2590
	Series: " German Painting " Adam Elsheimer , The excavation of the crosses	55	1st March	6,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Werner Hans Schmidt	2591
	400th birthday of Paul Gerhardt	55	1st March	6,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Antonia Graschberger	2592
	50 years of the Treaty of Rome	55	1st March	8,300,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Werner Hans Schmidt	2593
	Jewish Center Munich	55	1st March	6,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Barbara Dimanski	2594
	50 years of the state of Saarland self-adhesive from booklet	55	1st March	308.510.500	Fritz Lüdtke	2595 MH 67
	Series: Post Picture story I. (Sender)	55	12. April	7,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Peter and Regina Steiner	2596
	Picture story I. (mailbox)	55	12. April	7,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Peter and Regina Steiner	2597
	500 years world map by Martin Waldseemüller	220	12. April	6,600,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Werner Hans Schmidt	2598
	80th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI.	55	12. April	14,400,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Antonia Gaschberger	2599
	Series: Europe scout	45	May 3rd	11,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Susanne Oesterlee	2600
	Bellevue Palace - the official residence of the Federal President	55	May 3rd	8,300,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Gerhard Lienemeyer	2601
	700 years of Moyland Castle	85	May 3rd	18,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Lutz Menze	2602
	175 years of the Hambach Festival	145	May 3rd	7,700,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Johannes Graf	2603
	Bellevue Palace - the official residence of the Federal President self-adhesive from roll	55	May 3rd	312,446,000	Gerhard Lienemeyer	2604
	175 years of the Hambach Festival self-adhesive from booklet	145	May 3rd	368,731,000	Johannes Graf	2605 MH 68
	Postage Stamp Pad - For Sports 40 years of the German Sports Aid Foundation	300 + 125	May 3rd	1,310,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Stefan Klein and Olaf Neumann	Block 70
	Stamp pad - For the youth with surcharges in favor of the German Youth Brand Foundation 175th birthday of Wilhelm Busch Hans Huckebein, the unlucky fellow : Short story	300 + 125	14th June	1,660,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Ingo Wulff	Block 71
	“There was nothing nice for Aunt Lotte. As black blueberry compotes "	45 + 20	14th June	1,660,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Ingo Wulff	2606
	"But Huckebein is only squandering the beautiful gift of nature"	55 + 25	14th June	1,660,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Ingo Wulff	2607
	"The aunt approached full of anger and horror: Hans Huckebein leaves the pool."	55 + 25	14th June	1,660,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Ingo Wulff	2608
	“And quickly he steps in, frightened. The laundry, which is freshly ironed. "	145 + 55	14th June	1,660,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Ingo Wulff	2609
	125th birthday of Karl Valentin	45	14th June	8,200,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Michael Kunter and Henning Wagenbreth	2610
	100th birthday of Paul Klinger Excerpt from the movie poster for " Stallion Maestoso Austria " (Austria 1956, with film partner Nadia Gray )	55	14th June	10,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Elisabeth Hau	2611
	Series: Lighthouses Bremerhaven	45	July 12	10,050,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Johannes Graf Motive: Reinhard Scheiblich	2612
	Hörnum	55	July 12	8,320,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Johannes Graf Motive: Reinhard Scheiblich	2613
	Series: World Heritage by UNESCO Riga, Stralsund and Wismar	65	July 12	8,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Sibylle and Fritz Haase	2614
	Riga, Stralsund and Wismar Joint issue with Latvia	70	July 12	8,100,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Sibylle and Fritz Haase	2615
	Series: "Bridges" 100 years of Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge in Wilhelmshaven	145	August 9	8,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Lutz Menze	2616
	75 years of the Saale Dam Bleiloch	55	August 9	6,900,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Barbara Dimanski	2617
	50 years of the Deutsche Bundesbank	55	August 9	9,800,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Werner Hans Schmidt	2618
	Series: " For us children "	55	September 20th	7,400,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Regina and Olaf Jäger	2619
	Series: Post Picture story II. (Postman)	55	September 20th	8,151,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Peter and Regina Steiner	2620
	Picture story II. (Recipient)	55	September 20th	8,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Peter and Regina Steiner	2621
	50 years of the Science Council	90	September 20th	6,400,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Nina Clausing	2622
	Postage stamp pad - Series: World Heritage by UNESCO limes	55	October 11th	2,968,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Annegret Ehmke	Block 72
	250th birthday of Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom und zum Stein	145	October 11th	7,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Lutz Menze	2624
	100 years of the German Werkbund Poster for the Werkbund exhibition "Die Form" in 1924 by Richard Herre	55	October 11th	7,250,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Ingo Wulff	2625
	Plus brand series: Christmas Motifs from the Gospel of Luke Adoration of the Magi	45 + 20	November 8th	2,650,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Ernst and Lorli Jünger	2626
	The birth of christ	55 + 25	November 8th	4,930,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Ernst and Lorli Jünger	2627
	800th birthday of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia	55	November 8th	10,150,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Dieter Ziegenfeuter	2628
	Astrid Lindgren's 100th birthday Portrait of Astrid Lindgren with one of her children's book characters ( Michel from Lönneberga ); Joint issue with Sweden	100	November 8th	7,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Ernst Jünger and Lorli Jünger	2629
	Series: For Welfare Care - Pets with surcharges in favor of the Federal Association of Free Welfare Care eV House guinea pigs	45 + 20	December 27th	3,160,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Andrea Voss-Acker	2630
	Horses, Haflingers	55 + 25	December 27th	2,150,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Andrea Voss-Acker	2631
	Dogs , Labrador Retrievers	55 + 25	December 27th	2,300,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Andrea Voss-Acker	2632
	Chinchilla rabbit	145 + 55	December 27th	3,330,000 of which 105,000 on ETB	Andrea Voss-Acker	2633
	275th birthday of Carl Gotthard Langhans Brandenburg Gate Berlin, etching after a drawing by Peter Ludwig Lüdtke the Elder. J., 1798	55	December 27th	8,500,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Paul Effert	2634
	Series: "For Welfare Care" Horses, Haflingers self-adhesive from booklet	55 + 25	December 27th	10,330,000	Andrea Voss-Acker	2635 MH 69
	275th birthday of Carl Gotthard Langhans self-adhesive from booklet	55	December 27th	254,630,000	Paul Effert	2636 MH 70
Definitive stamps
image	description	Values in euro cents	Issue date (2007)	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Definitive series: flowers On March 1, 2007, a composite was published with four values ​​at 5 cents, four values ​​at 10 cents and two values ​​at 20 cents. The overprint is in the form of a booklet sheet, but was issued individually without protective cardboard. Since the border of the sheet is imperforated, there are new perforation variants for the stamps listed: All stamps are imperforated at the top or bottom, depending on whether they come from the top or bottom row, furthermore the stamps are imperforated at 20 cents on the right the two 5-cent stamps from the left margin are imperforated on the left. There has never been a comparable issue at Deutsche Post.	4 × € 0.05 + 4 × € 0.10 + 2 × € 0.20 = € 1.00	1st March	??. ???. 000	Stefan Klein and Olaf Neumann	2480, 2484, 2471

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mint never hinged - Das Philatelie-Journal der Deutsche Post, January / February 2009, p. 23
2. ^ Mint never hinged - Das Philatelie-Journal der Deutsche Post, July / August 2009, p. 25
3. ↑ For the first time since 1982 there is a stamp with a living personality in Germany. Otherwise only the Federal President is entitled to this privilege.
4. ↑ Brands are identical to the January and February issues. Since the German team became handball world champions, there is an additional note on the edge of the block

Web links

Commons : 2007 stamps issued by the Federal Republic of Germany  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Brochure of the Deutsche Post AG: The official stamps of the Federal Republic of Germany, as of October 2006
• The 2007 stamps on the website of Deutsche Post AG