People who were depicted on a postage stamp of the Federal Republic of Germany during their lifetime

First postage stamp of the Federal Republic of Germany that does not show a German head of state, but the first honorary citizen of Europe, Jean Monnet .

This list gives an overview of those people who were depicted on a postage stamp of the Federal Republic of Germany during their lifetime .

In Germany, with the exception of the head of state, no living personalities are usually depicted on postage stamps. This is traditionally based and not based on a law.

“As in many countries, it is also customary in Germany to have the stamps bearing the image of the respective head of state. This is not intended to honor the person or life's work of the person depicted, but only to represent the issuing country in a documentary way. In all other cases, the Deutsche Bundespost refuses to depict living people on postage stamps because their life's work is not yet completed. "

- Press releases of the Federal Ministry for the Post and Telecommunications : The new postage stamp series of the Deutsche Bundespost, No. 2/1960 - Sheet 4

There are more German postage stamps that depict living people, but these are symbolic of a corresponding event. Usually these people are alienated by wiping and pixel effects, or they can only be seen from behind.

Exceptions in the Federal Republic of Germany

The first exception was in February 1977, when the French politician and statesman Jean Monnet was made an honorary citizen of Europe .

The first such postage stamp in reunified Germany was issued on April 12, 2007 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI.

The CSU politician Ernst Hinsken tried to get an exemption from the responsible Ministry of Finance under the direction of Peer Steinbrück and later under Wolfgang Schäuble for a special stamp in honor of Helmut Kohl (the 80th birthday was planned in April 2010) during his lifetime. This proposal was rejected by both ministers and Chancellor Angela Merkel . On November 16, 2010, at the request of the Junge Union Ludwigshafen in Karlsruhe, the federal party congress of the CDU passed the resolution that Kohl should be honored with a stamp as an honorary citizen of Europe for his “outstanding political life achievement”. In mid-January 2011 it was confirmed that there would be a stamp in honor of Kohl that same year. Merkel and Schäuble even welcomed this now. Since finding a motif turned out to be more difficult than expected, there was no corresponding brand in 2011. At first it looked as if there would also be no special stamp for cabbage for the 2012 vintage. The Ministry of Finance only updated its overview for the current year at the end of May 2012 and now provided for a 55-cent special stamp with Kohl as “ Chancellor of Unity - Honorary Citizen of Europe ” for October 11, 2012 . The brand was presented on September 27, 2012 and went on sale on October 11, 2012.

Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany

In Germany, it is a tradition that the head of state, currently the Federal President , has the right to have his or her portrait shown on a postage stamp (regardless of whether it is a special or definitive stamp).

The first Federal President Theodor Heuss even got two permanent series (→ Heuss series and Heuss medallion ).

His successor Heinrich Lübke decided not to be shown in a permanent series, but was honored with two stamps each on the occasion of his election or re-election.

He was succeeded in the office of Federal President Gustav Heinemann , who in turn was represented ( Heinemann series ).

None of the Federal Presidents who followed Heinemann made use of the rights granted to them.

In 1982 a block of stamps was published with portraits of the previous and current Federal Presidents. In addition to Heuss, Lübke and Heinemann, these were Walter Scheel and Karl Carstens, who was in office at the time .

Brand lists

The following list of brands is divided into two parts. In the first section all stamps of the Deutsche Bundespost and the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin are listed. Since 1995, the official postage stamps of the Federal Republic of Germany only bear the country designation Germany, these are in the second section.

Deutsche Bundespost 1949 to 1995 and Deutsche Bundespost Berlin 1949 to 1990

image	person	Issue occasion	Issue date	Mi. -No.
	Theodor Heuss	Federal President stamp series: Heuss , Deutsche Bundespost: 27 stamps, Deutsche Bundespost Saarland: 40 stamps	January 31, 1954 to December 20, 1957	Federal Government 177–196, 259–265 Saarland 380–399, 409–428
	Theodor Heuss	Federal President stamp series: Heuss Medallion , Deutsche Bundespost: 5 stamps, Deutsche Bundespost Berlin: 5 stamps	January 31 to May 22, 1959	Federal 302–306, Berlin 182–186
	Heinrich Luebke	Federal President Election and re-election of the Federal President Deutsche Bundespost: 4 stamps, Deutsche Bundespost Berlin: 4 stamps	July 1, 1964 and October 14, 1967	Federal 429-430 , 542-543 , Berlin 234-235 , 314-315
	Gustav Heinemann	Federal President stamp series: Federal President Gustav Heinemann , Deutsche Bundespost: 21 stamps, Deutsche Bundespost Berlin: 23 stamps	July 23, 1970 to January 16, 1973	Bund 635-645, 689-692, 727-732 Berlin 359-370, 393-396, 427-433
	Jean Monnet	Appointment as an honorary citizen of Europe	February 16, 1977	Confederation 926
	Walter Scheel Karl Carstens	Federal President Block edition: Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany	November 10, 1982	Federal 1159, 1160 Block 18
	John Paul II No illustration, but the Pope's coat of arms and textual mention on the stamp	Visit of Pope John Paul II in the Federal Republic of Germany 17th Marian Congress 10th Mariological Congress Kevelaer 1987 Sights of Kevelaer , miraculous image of the Madonna and coat of arms of the Pope	April 9, 1987	Confederation 1320

Examples of living people who are symbolic of events:

image	person	Issue occasion	Issue date	Mi. -No.
	Children with magnifying glass in front of a stamp album and world globe . The children are the son of the then vice-president of the LPD Berlin and the son of the vice-president's closest colleague.	day of the stamp	October 7, 1951	Berlin 80 and 81
	30 Pf. Horst Wolter 40 Pf. Uli Hoeneß	Football World Cup 1974	May 15, 1974	Confederation 811, 812
	Prof. Karl Oskar Blase photographed his son for the design of the brand	International Year of the Child	January 11, 1979	Bund 1000
	Prof. Rothacker used a photo from Presse-Foto Baumann as a template. It shows an international match between Germany and Switzerland. The faces of the players can be clearly seen in the photo.	Ice Hockey World Championship	April 12, 1983	Berlin 699

Germany from 1995

In the course of the privatization of the Deutsche Bundespost on January 1, 1995 and the transformation into Deutsche Post AG , the postage stamps had been labeled Germany since 1995 and no longer the Deutsche Bundespost as before .

image	person	Issue occasion	Issue date	Mi. -No.
	Pope Benedict XVI	80th birthday	April 12, 2007	2599
link	Udo Lindenberg ( caricature )	" Current Topic " series: Udo Lindenberg - Greetings stamps, Andrea Doria	July 1, 2010	2803/2807
link	Udo Lindenberg (caricature)	" Current Topic " series: Udo Lindenberg - greeting stamps, " Special train to Pankow "		2804/2808
link	Helmut Kohl	Chancellor of Unity - Honorary Citizen of Europe	October 11, 2012	2960

Examples of living people who are symbolic of the topics depicted on the brand:

image	person	Issue occasion	Issue date	Mi. -No.
	The numbers on the back indicate the following players: No. 12 Sven Scheuer No. 7 Mehmet Scholl No. 2 Markus Babbel No. 6 Christian Nerlinger No. 8 Thomas Strunz No. 28 Frank Wiblishauser No. 5 (covered) Thomas Helmer No. 13 Mario Basler	from the series: German Football Champion 1997 FC Bayern Munich	October 16, 1997	1958
	Inger Nilsson	Pippi Longstocking (characters from books for children and young people)	June 13, 2001	2191
	Elsbeth Sigmund and Thomas Klameth , shown is a scene from the film Heidi and Peter	Heidi (characters from children's and youth books)		2192
	The Regensburger Domspatzen with their director, Domkapellmeister Roland Büchner	Famous boys' choirs (block edition)	February 13, 2003	2318, 2319, 2320 Block 61
	The Dresden Kreuzchor
	The Thomanerchor Leipzig
link	Deliverers of Deutsche Post AG, representing approximately 79,000 Note: Since there is only one delivery district with the post barge in Germany , it can be concluded that the barge deliverer is	Various delivery methods and locations in Germany, from the "Post" stamp series	March 3, 2005	2447 (north: coast, postal bike )
				2448 (south: mountains)
			August 11, 2005	2481 (East: Postkahn)
				2482 (west: hilly landscape)
	Customer and employee in a branch of Deutsche Post AG	Post universal, from the "Post" stamp series	March 12, 2009	2724
	Deutsche Post AG deliverer		May 7, 2009	2734
	Lukas Podolski ( Germany ) in a duel with Xavi ( Spain ), based on a picture from the 2008 European Championship final on June 29, 2008 in the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna	Football World Cup (June 11 to July 11, 2010) from the series “ For Sport ” in support of the German Sports Aid Foundation	April 8, 2010	2788
	Vitalij Aab ( Iserlohn Roosters ) in a duel with Paul Manning ( Hamburg Freezers ), based on a picture from the DEL encounter on October 16, 2008 in the Color Line Arena in Hamburg	Ice hockey world championship (May 7 to 23, 2010) from the series “For Sport” in support of the German Sports Aid Foundation		2789
link	Lukas Podolski (Germany) in a duel with Xavi (Spain), based on a picture from the 2008 European Championship final on June 29, 2008 in the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna	Germany soccer world champion 2014	17th July 2014	3095 (same motif with 2788)

Trivia

In addition to living people, individual animals are occasionally shown during their lifetime. The list below may not be exhaustive.

image	Creature	Issue occasion	Issue date	Mi. -No.
	Little princess (white stork)	Prinzesschen was a female white stork who spent his summer months near the Storchenhof Loburg . In 1994 he was provided with a transmitter and observed; he became famous and was shown on the stamp on the right in 2004. See also the Endangered Species stamp series	April 7, 2004	Federal 2393
link	Knut (polar bear)	The stamp with the motif " Eisbär Knut" symbolizes the need to protect global biological diversity. The internationally famous polar bear saw the light of day on December 5, 2006 as the first polar bear birth in more than 30 years in the Berlin Zoo. The Federal Ministry for the Environment was the godfather of Eisbär Knut.	April 10, 2008	Federal 2656

literature

• Mint never hinged - Das Philatelie-Journal, March / April 2/2007, p. 33
• Michel catalog Germany special

See also

• People who were honored on a German postage stamp during their lifetime
  • People who were depicted on a postage stamp of the German Reich during their lifetime
  • People who were depicted on a GDR postage stamp during their lifetime

Web links

Commons : People on German postage stamps  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mint never hinged, 2/2007, p. 33
2. ^ Official Journal of the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications; Edition A; Born 1976, Bonn, December 22nd, 1976, number 166, ruling no. 983: special postage stamp “Jean Monnet”; P. 1928
3. ↑ Pope Benedict XVI. gets special postage stamp. In: sueddeutsche.de . Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Arne Delfs: The old man and the postage stamp, Financial Times Deutschland , p. 11 of December 23, 2009
5. ↑ Rp Online: Rule :. In: rp-online.de. December 22, 2009. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Brands, Merkel and motifs. In: sueddeutsche.de . Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
7. ↑ CSU Hinsken is fighting for the Kohl postage stamp and the Kohl Münze Foundation on bild.de from July 8, 2009
8. ↑ Ludwigshafen -JU is happy about stamps for cabbage - /// METROPOLIC REGION RHEIN-NECKAR NEWS & EVENTS. In: mrn-news.de. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
9. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Helmut-Kohl-Briefmarke-kommen-article1939766.html
10. ↑ Sticking cabbage: special postage stamp for the former Chancellor in Badische Zeitung , from: Tim Braune, dpa, as of: January 13, 2011
11. ↑ http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/2/0,3672,8191138,00.html (link not available)
12. ↑ Stamp on it - This year Kohl will be the brand of Philip Kuhn, on welt.de, as of January 12, 2011
13. ^ Postage stamp in honor of Helmut Kohl - Former Chancellor to Lick and Lex Kohl ( memento from January 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche Zeitung, as of January 12, 2011
14. ↑ Helmut Kohl Unity Chancellor as a stamp from Matthias Schiermeyer, published in the Stuttgarter Zeitung on January 13, 2011
15. ↑ Rp Online: Schäuble pays tribute to former Chancellor: Helmut Kohl in future on postage stamp. In: rp-online.de. January 11, 2011, accessed August 25, 2019 . 
16. ^ Postage stamp for Helmut Kohl is delayed on Spiegel Online, October 23, 2011
17. ^ Postage stamp for Helmut Kohl is delayed on Spiegel Online, October 23, 2011
18. ↑ Special postage stamp annual program 2012 - Federal Ministry of Finance ; Status: November 2011 (Updated: May 25, 2012)
19. ↑ Franking with the former Chancellor: The Kohl stamp will appear on n-tv.de on Thursday, August 30, 2012
20. ↑ Presentation of the Kohl postage stamp with image on dw.de from September 27, 2012
21. ↑ Helmut Kohl on twelve square centimeters ( memento of October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Contribution by Kerstin Lohse from October 11, 2012, 8:50 a.m. on Nordwestradio .
22. ^ Briefmarken Spiegel, issue: 1/2006; P. 42
23. ^ Udo Lindenberg, Andrea Doria Deutsche Post
24. ^ Udo Lindenberg, special train to Pankow Deutsche Post
25. ↑ Original image 81761589 at Getty Images
26. ↑ Original image 55932791 from Getty Images
27. ↑ Prinzesschen - a profile ( Memento from February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
28. ↑ A stamp for the NABU heraldic bird
29. ↑ White storks series "Endangered Animal Species" ( Memento from February 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
30. ↑ Stamp issues Germany 2004 ( Memento of November 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
31. ↑ http://philatelie.deutschepost.de/philatelie/service/philatelie_aktuell/2008_04_philatelie_aktuell.pdf (link not available)

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