German Democratic Republic (East Germany) Covers

When mobile phones did not exist yet...
Cover from Berlin to Vilnius,Lithuania,with Michel # 1820
Slogan postmark : "Take care of payphones,they're vital"

Cover from Dessau to Vilnius,Lithuania,with Michel # 1821
Slogan postmark : "Visit our regional theater!"


Dessau regional theater on a stationery postcard (Michel # P47)

German Fairy Tales:

"The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack", issued on December 8, 1966:

"Puss in Boots", issued on November 27, 1968:

"Brother and Sister", issued on February 17, 1970:

"Town Musicians of Bremen", issued on November 23, 1971:

"The Snow Queen", issued on November 28, 1972:

"The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights", by Pushkin, issued on November 27, 1984:

Personalities:

Different stamps from years 1959-1960:

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich von Schiller, issued on November 10, 1959 and The monuments of Lenin and Thälmann, issued on July 2, 1960:

Different stamps from years 1970-1971:

Personalities, issued on February 23, 1971:

Personalities, issued on January 25, 1972:

International Meteorologist Congress, Leipzig, 1972:

Anemometer, First German Weather Map
Turnstile antenna, satellite cloud recording
Weather satellite, modern weather map

Sorbs (Upper Sorbian: Serbja, Lower Sorbian: Serby, German: Sorben, also known as Lusatians and Wends) are a West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs traditionally speak the Sorbian languages (also known as "Wendish" and "Lusatian"), which are closely related to Czech, Polish, Kashubian, Silesian, and Slovak. Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian are officially recognized minority languages in Germany.

Sorbian customs, issued by DDR on July 6, 1982, set on cover sent registered from Erfurt, DDR to Australia. Several Australian transition and arrival postmarks on the back:


Another cover sent registered from Halle to Australia:

Sport events in the DDR:

The 3rd gymnastics and sports festival in Leipzig, 1959:


The 5th gymnastics and sports festival in Leipzig, 1969:



The 7th gymnastics and sports festival in Leipzig and the 9th youth Spartakiada, 1983:

Human Rights Day, issued on December 10, 1956:


The 10th anniversary of UN declaration of human rights, issued on December 10, 1968:

Old globes, issued on October 17, 1972:

Horse drawn carriages, issued on July 27, 1976:

Dogs, issued on August 17, 1976:

Historical handicraft, issued on October 19, 1976:

Historical city halls, issued on February 22, 1983:

Gymnastic and sport Festival in Leipzig, issued on July 25, 1956:

The European swimming championship, issued on August 7, 1962:

The 5th youth Spartakiada, issued on July 15, 1975. Label on the back:

Multi franked covers, all sent from Erfurt to the same address in Dortmund, West Germany:

The 100th anniversary of the birth of Lenin, issued on April 16, 1970. Registered covers sent to Czechoslovakia and Australia:


The 60th anniversary of the October Revolution (left SS), issued on September 20, 1977. The right SS shows Felix Dzierzinkis, Bolshevik revolutionary and official, led the Soviet state-security organizations:

Multi franked covers, all were sent registered to Australia:

The Spartacus League (German: Spartakusbund) was a Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. It was founded in August 1914 as the International Group by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and other members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who were dissatisfied with the party's official policies in support of the war. In 1916 it renamed itself the Spartacus Group and in 1917 joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), which had split off from the SPD as its left wing faction. During the November Revolution of 1918 that broke out across Germany at the end of the war, the Spartacus Group re-established itself as a nationwide, non-party organization called the "Spartacus League" with the goal of instituting a soviet republic that would include all of Germany. It became part of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) when it was formed on 1 January 1919 and at that point ceased to exist as a separate entity.

During the 1918 November Revolution, Friedrich Ebert's majority SPD government crushed the revolt and the Spartakusbund by sending in the Freikorps, government-sponsored paramilitary groups consisting mostly of World War I veterans. Freikorps troops captured and assassinated Luxemburg and Liebknecht during the rebellion.

50th anniversary of the Spartacus Group, issued on January 3, 1966:



Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht on different stamps from 1959, 1968 and 1971:



Rosa Luxembourg on Israeli stamp from 1998:

The 25th anniversary of DDR, issued on April 30, 1974: