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The GDR was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990.
From 1949 to 1989 the country was a part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War.
Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".
Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement,
bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line.
The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.
Most scholars and academics describe the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship.
The GDR was established in the Soviet occupied zone, while the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly referred to as West Germany,
was established in the three western/US-UK-French occupied zones of Berlin (de facto) and Germany.
A satellite state of the Soviet Union, Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to
German communist leaders in 1948 and the GDR began to function as a state on 7 October 1949, gaining sovereignty from the Soviet Union in 1955,
although Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War.
Until 1989, the GDR was governed by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED),
although other parties nominally participated in its alliance organization, the National Front of the German Democratic Republic.
The SED made the teaching of Marxism–Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools.
The economy was centrally planned and state-owned.
Prices of housing, basic goods and services were heavily subsidized and set by central government planners rather than rising and falling through supply and demand.
Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, it became the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc.
Emigration to the West was a significant problem as many of the emigrants were well-educated young people; such emigration weakened the state economically.
In response, the government fortified its inner German border and built the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Many people attempting to flee were killed by border guards or booby traps such as landmines.
Those captured spent long periods of time imprisoned for attempting to escape.
In 1951, a referendum in East Germany regarding the remilitarization of Germany was held, with 95% of the population voting in favour.
In 1989, numerous social, economic and political forces in the GDR and abroad, one of the most notable being peaceful protests starting in the city of Leipzig,
led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the establishment of a government committed to liberalization.
The following year, a free and fair election was held and international negotiations led to the signing of the Final Settlement treaty on the status and borders of future-reunited Germany.
The GDR ceased to exist when its states ("Länder") joined the Federal Republic of Germany under Article 23 of the Basic Law on 3 October 1990.
Several of the GDR's leaders, notably its last communist leader Egon Krenz, were later prosecuted for offenses committed during the GDR times.
Geographically, the GDR bordered the Baltic Sea to the north, Poland to the east, Czechoslovakia to the southeast and West Germany to the southwest and west.
Internally, the GDR also bordered the Soviet sector of Allied-occupied Berlin, known as East Berlin, which was also administered as the state's de facto capital.
It also bordered the three sectors occupied by the United States, United Kingdom and France known collectively as West Berlin.
The three sectors occupied by the Western nations were sealed off from the GDR by the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 until it was brought down in 1989.
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As told before, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded on October 7th, 1949 in the area of the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
The Main Administration for Post and Telecommunications of the German Economic Commission for the Soviet occupation zone,
which had existed up to then, was reorganized into the Ministry for Post and Telecommunications,
to which Deutsche Post was subordinate.
By December 31, 1952, the organization of a uniform postal and telecommunications traffic was carried out via 7 main post offices (Dresden, Erfurt, Halle, Potsdam, Schwerin, Berlin and Leipzig).
After the reorganization of the GDR countries into administrative districts from January 1, 1953, 15 district directorates for post and telecommunications were formed.
When the German Democratic Republic was founded, the postage stamps of the Soviet occupation zone continued to be valid on its territory until the validity dates specified for the individual issues.
The GDR was a member of the Universal Postal Union and the International Telecommunication Union.
On July 1, 1990, the German Democratic Republic formed a monetary union with the Federal Republic of Germany and joined it on October 3. 1990.
From July 1, 1990, the issues of the Deutsche Bundespost and the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin were also valid on the territory of the German Democratic Republic. At the same time, postage stamps issued by Deutsche Post in the German Democratic Republic from this point on were also allowed to be used in the Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin.
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Because the GDR issued so many stamps I only showed the MNH stamps till 1955/1956.
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Thanks for sharing this nice gallery of beautiful stamps. The early DDR-years are definitely worth collecting - later the number of issues become too many, and in my mind, the quality drops. I also have an album of the early sets but are not actively collecting the country. What I really find fascinating is the "propaganda"-message on the many of the issues (similar to other East European countries at the time) - propaganda is a "topic" that I recently started to complement to my "dictators and other bad guys" topical collection. Don't have to look far to find new additions. I found Colnect quite helpful to locate certain stamps out of sets. By the way, a language-terminology question: is the term "stamp out of a set" correct? - what I want to say is "a single stamp of a larger set" (i.e. not a complete set). Cheers
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"By the way, a language-terminology question: is the term "stamp out of a set" correct? - what I want to say is "a single stamp of a larger set" (i.e. not a complete set). Cheers"
Well I find it correct. I know what you mean.
And your question here on the DDR thread is amazing because many, many sets from the DDR have 1 stamp in those series amd we call them "SPERRWERTE"
Below you can read what it means :
There was a blocking value in the German Democratic Republic from 1955 Special postage stamps (special stamps, blocks and small sheets), the general was valid postally.
But its comparatively low circulation volume was not less than that from the point of view of postal needs, but also from the point of view of foreign trade policy requirements have been determined.
Postal customers could use these special postage stamps almost exclusively under special purchasing conditions, with a so-called Buy a collector's card.
The term blocking value was introduced in colloquial usage, also used in postal counter traffic, but mostly not in the official postal and philatelic ones, Usage of language.
Here we initially spoke of sentences with so-called "bound values", later from "values in small editions".
Since the artificial scarcity of trademarks is a violation of the statutes of the International Federation of Philatelists (FIP) based in Switzerland represented, the FIP sponsored international stamp exhibitions were valid blocking values as unwanted output and also otherwise complete sentences without the blocking value as complete.
That is why some of them had to go to these exihibions the issued blocking values are reserved, i.e. the stamp image has to be changed to the upside down.
After the GDR Philatelists' Association was incorporated into the FIP in 1969 recorded was also lost from the FIP's blacklist of blocked values beginning of the 1970's in importance.
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Thanks for posting this thread.
A few of us put together this handy "Identification Tool For The German Democratic Republic Five Year Plan stamps (1953/59)". It gives collectors several methods (by catalog number, visually, denomination, or series) for IDing these stamp issues.
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https://stampsmarter.org/features/FiveYe ...
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East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland), officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR)
The GDR was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990.
From 1949 to 1989 the country was a part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War.
Commonly described as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".
Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement,
bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line.
The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.
Most scholars and academics describe the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship.
The GDR was established in the Soviet occupied zone, while the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly referred to as West Germany,
was established in the three western/US-UK-French occupied zones of Berlin (de facto) and Germany.
A satellite state of the Soviet Union, Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to
German communist leaders in 1948 and the GDR began to function as a state on 7 October 1949, gaining sovereignty from the Soviet Union in 1955,
although Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War.
Until 1989, the GDR was governed by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED),
although other parties nominally participated in its alliance organization, the National Front of the German Democratic Republic.
The SED made the teaching of Marxism–Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools.
The economy was centrally planned and state-owned.
Prices of housing, basic goods and services were heavily subsidized and set by central government planners rather than rising and falling through supply and demand.
Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, it became the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc.
Emigration to the West was a significant problem as many of the emigrants were well-educated young people; such emigration weakened the state economically.
In response, the government fortified its inner German border and built the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Many people attempting to flee were killed by border guards or booby traps such as landmines.
Those captured spent long periods of time imprisoned for attempting to escape.
In 1951, a referendum in East Germany regarding the remilitarization of Germany was held, with 95% of the population voting in favour.
In 1989, numerous social, economic and political forces in the GDR and abroad, one of the most notable being peaceful protests starting in the city of Leipzig,
led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the establishment of a government committed to liberalization.
The following year, a free and fair election was held and international negotiations led to the signing of the Final Settlement treaty on the status and borders of future-reunited Germany.
The GDR ceased to exist when its states ("Länder") joined the Federal Republic of Germany under Article 23 of the Basic Law on 3 October 1990.
Several of the GDR's leaders, notably its last communist leader Egon Krenz, were later prosecuted for offenses committed during the GDR times.
Geographically, the GDR bordered the Baltic Sea to the north, Poland to the east, Czechoslovakia to the southeast and West Germany to the southwest and west.
Internally, the GDR also bordered the Soviet sector of Allied-occupied Berlin, known as East Berlin, which was also administered as the state's de facto capital.
It also bordered the three sectors occupied by the United States, United Kingdom and France known collectively as West Berlin.
The three sectors occupied by the Western nations were sealed off from the GDR by the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 until it was brought down in 1989.
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As told before, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded on October 7th, 1949 in the area of the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
The Main Administration for Post and Telecommunications of the German Economic Commission for the Soviet occupation zone,
which had existed up to then, was reorganized into the Ministry for Post and Telecommunications,
to which Deutsche Post was subordinate.
By December 31, 1952, the organization of a uniform postal and telecommunications traffic was carried out via 7 main post offices (Dresden, Erfurt, Halle, Potsdam, Schwerin, Berlin and Leipzig).
After the reorganization of the GDR countries into administrative districts from January 1, 1953, 15 district directorates for post and telecommunications were formed.
When the German Democratic Republic was founded, the postage stamps of the Soviet occupation zone continued to be valid on its territory until the validity dates specified for the individual issues.
The GDR was a member of the Universal Postal Union and the International Telecommunication Union.
On July 1, 1990, the German Democratic Republic formed a monetary union with the Federal Republic of Germany and joined it on October 3. 1990.
From July 1, 1990, the issues of the Deutsche Bundespost and the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin were also valid on the territory of the German Democratic Republic. At the same time, postage stamps issued by Deutsche Post in the German Democratic Republic from this point on were also allowed to be used in the Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin.
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Because the GDR issued so many stamps I only showed the MNH stamps till 1955/1956.
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Thanks for sharing this nice gallery of beautiful stamps. The early DDR-years are definitely worth collecting - later the number of issues become too many, and in my mind, the quality drops. I also have an album of the early sets but are not actively collecting the country. What I really find fascinating is the "propaganda"-message on the many of the issues (similar to other East European countries at the time) - propaganda is a "topic" that I recently started to complement to my "dictators and other bad guys" topical collection. Don't have to look far to find new additions. I found Colnect quite helpful to locate certain stamps out of sets. By the way, a language-terminology question: is the term "stamp out of a set" correct? - what I want to say is "a single stamp of a larger set" (i.e. not a complete set). Cheers
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"By the way, a language-terminology question: is the term "stamp out of a set" correct? - what I want to say is "a single stamp of a larger set" (i.e. not a complete set). Cheers"
Well I find it correct. I know what you mean.
And your question here on the DDR thread is amazing because many, many sets from the DDR have 1 stamp in those series amd we call them "SPERRWERTE"
Below you can read what it means :
There was a blocking value in the German Democratic Republic from 1955 Special postage stamps (special stamps, blocks and small sheets), the general was valid postally.
But its comparatively low circulation volume was not less than that from the point of view of postal needs, but also from the point of view of foreign trade policy requirements have been determined.
Postal customers could use these special postage stamps almost exclusively under special purchasing conditions, with a so-called Buy a collector's card.
The term blocking value was introduced in colloquial usage, also used in postal counter traffic, but mostly not in the official postal and philatelic ones, Usage of language.
Here we initially spoke of sentences with so-called "bound values", later from "values in small editions".
Since the artificial scarcity of trademarks is a violation of the statutes of the International Federation of Philatelists (FIP) based in Switzerland represented, the FIP sponsored international stamp exhibitions were valid blocking values as unwanted output and also otherwise complete sentences without the blocking value as complete.
That is why some of them had to go to these exihibions the issued blocking values are reserved, i.e. the stamp image has to be changed to the upside down.
After the GDR Philatelists' Association was incorporated into the FIP in 1969 recorded was also lost from the FIP's blacklist of blocked values beginning of the 1970's in importance.
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Thanks for posting this thread.
A few of us put together this handy "Identification Tool For The German Democratic Republic Five Year Plan stamps (1953/59)". It gives collectors several methods (by catalog number, visually, denomination, or series) for IDing these stamp issues.
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https://stampsmarter.org/features/FiveYe ...
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