This article covers a series of postage stamps ; for the parliaments of the German federal states, see state parliament .
State Parliaments in Germany is the name of a special postage stamp series of the Federal Republic of Germany, which was issued by the responsible Federal Ministry of Finance . They were available from Deutsche Post AG . The first four of the 16 stamps were issued on March 12, 1998, the other stamps were issued at twelve issue intervals until September 5, 2001. The designs are by Gerd Aretz and his son Oliver . The stamps were printed in offset printing in miniature sheets of 2 × 5 with a comb perforation of 13 3/4 by 14, with a size of 55.00 × 32.80 mm, in the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin . The stamps show the 16 state parliaments in Germany in pop art or false colors . The brands appeared in the alphabetical order of the respective federal states . The postage value corresponded to the postage of a domestic standard letter. The last four stamps in the series were issued in 2001 because of the imminent introduction of euro cash as double denominations (110 pfennigs and € 0.56).