Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1971 - 10 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1971 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes six special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. No special first-day cover letter DDR honors important scientists, writers and artists HEINRICH MANN was born on 27 March 1871 in Lübeck as a patrician's son. He died - on March 12, 1950 in California - shortly before his return to his homeland, where he was to take over the post of President of the German Academy of Arts in the German Democratic Republic. Heinrich Mann became the first national award winner of our young democratic and peace-loving state. The great writer left important narrative and journalistic works, of which the novels "The small town", "The subject" and "Youth and completion of King Henri IV." among the most notable literary achievements of our century. Heinrich Mann has lived through all the historically significant attitudes of the bourgeois humanist intellectual in their contradictions. He became the innovator and spokesman of a pro-active bourgeois democratism that came to realize the historical role of the working class. He was in the fight against war and fascism and was chairman of the committee of the German Popular Front in exile. Heinrich Mann was and remains a model for the alliance of all humanistic-minded people with the working class in the fight against imperialism.