Leipzig Fair on postage stamps

This article contains the postage stamps before 1950 for the Leipziger Messe on stamps for the stamps of the GDR see: Leipziger Messe on stamps of the Deutsche Post of the GDR .

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.
• Valid To: The date on which the validity ended.
• 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.

German Empire
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	Leipzig Spring Fair German library in Leipzig and bust of Johannes Gutenberg	3	March 3, 1940	December 31, 1941		Werner and Maria von Axster-Heudtlass	739
	Krochhochhaus on Augustusplatz in Leipzig	6th	March 3, 1940	December 31, 1941		Werner and Maria von Axster-Heudtlass	740
	Market square and old town hall in Leipzig	12	March 3, 1940	December 31, 1941		Werner and Maria von Axster-Heudtlass	741
	Exhibition grounds in Leipzig	25th	March 3, 1940	December 31, 1941		Engelhardt	742
	Leipzig Spring Fair Exhibition building "House of Nations" in Weststrasse 1 (1935 expropriated house of the Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palm trees , destroyed in the war )	3	March 1, 1941	December 31, 1942		E. steel	764
	Gewandhaus in Leipzig	6th	March 1, 1941	December 31, 1942		E. steel	765
	Old scales in Leipzig	12	March 1, 1941	December 31, 1942		E. steel	766
	Central station in Leipzig	25th	March 1, 1941	December 31, 1942		E. steel	767

Leipziger Messe (block number 5)

• 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.
• Values : The face value of the individual stamp.
• Issue Date : The first date this stamp was sold.
• Valid until : After this date the mark could no longer be used.
• 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.
• MiNr. : This stamp is listed in the Michel catalog under the corresponding number.

Postage stamp issues for West Saxony (SBZ) , September 1945 and May 1946
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	Sample show of Leipzig products Exhibition poster	6th	October 18, 1945	October 31, 1946	1,090,000	unknown	124
	Exhibition poster	12	October 18, 1945	October 31, 1946	1,082,000	unknown	125
	Leipzig Fair These stamps were also issued as stamp block 5 Old Town Hall, Leipzig	6 + 14	May 8, 1946	October 31, 1946	2,655,850 (signed) 503,900 (ung.)	unknown	162
	Old Town Hall	12 + 18	May 8, 1946	October 31, 1946	2,655,850 (signed) 503,900 (ung.)	unknown	163
	Old Town Hall	24 + 26	May 8, 1946	October 31, 1946	2,655,850 (signed) 503,900 (ung.)	unknown	164
	Old Town Hall	84 + 66	May 8, 1946	October 31, 1946	2,655,850 (signed) 503,900 (ung.)	unknown	165

Allied Control Council stamp issues , 1947
image	description	Value in pennies	Issue date	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	Leipzig Spring Fair 1947 Leipzig receives 1160 by Margrave Otto of Meissen , the market law	24 + 26	March 5, 1947	unknown	3,700,000	Erich Gruner	941
	Protection of foreign merchants by a decree of Margrave Dietrich von Landsberg , 1268	60 + 40	March 5, 1947	unknown	3,700,000	Erich Gruner	942
	Leipzig Autumn Fair 1947 Granted the trade fair privilege in 1497 by Maximilian I.	12	September 2, 1947	unknown	10,000,000	Erich Gruner	995
	Estimate and collection of rent, 1365	75	September 2, 1947	unknown	10,000,000	Erich Gruner	966
	Leipzig Spring Fair 1948 Before the Customs Barriers, 1388	50	March 2, 1948	unknown	12,000,000	Erich Gruner	967
	Construction of stacking stores, 1433	84	March 2, 1947	unknown	12,000,000	Erich Gruner	968

Postage stamp issues of the Soviet occupation zone , 1948
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date	Date of Expiry	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	Leipzig Autumn Fair Leipzig Autumn Fair 1459: The first New Year's Market	16 + 9	August 29, 1948	April 30, 1950	6,000,000	Gruner	198
	Leipzig Autumn Fair 1469: Foreign cloth makers move in	50 + 25	August 29, 1948	April 30, 1950	6,000,000	Gruner	199
	Leipzig Spring Fair Leipzig Spring Fair 1556: First fair in the new town hall	30 + 15	March 6, 1949	June 30, 1951	2,500,000	Gruner	230
	Leipzig Spring Fair 1536: Italians at the Leipzig Fair	50 + 25	March 6, 1949	June 30, 1951	2,500,000	Gruner	231
	Leipzig Autumn Fair Leipzig Autumn Fair 1650: Russian merchants at the fair	12 + 8	August 30, 1949	June 30, 1951	2,000,000	Gruner	240
	Leipzig Autumn Fair 1765: The young Goethe at the fair	24 + 16	August 30, 1949	June 30, 1951	2,000,000	Gruner	241

GDR

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Federal Republic of Germany

After reunification, it took seven years for a special stamp to be issued for the first time in 1997 to mark the “500 years of the Leipzig Exhibition Center”.

Postage stamps issued in 1997 from the Federal Republic of Germany
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date	Edition	draft	MiNr.
	500 years of trade fair privilege for Leipzig	100	March 6, 1997	40,200,000 of which 306,800 on ETB	Sybille and Fritz Haase	1905

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The brands are divided into type I rotogravure and type II intaglio printing
2. ↑ The stamps in this series were first introduced by the Allied Control Council, later continued by the Soviet occupation zone and in 1950 by the GDR with additional stamps