Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1972 - 20 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1972 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. No special first-day cover envelope 20-pfennig value Leonhard Frank Leonhard Frank was born in Würzburg in 1882 and died in 1961 in Munich. He was National Prize winner of the GDR, the Berlin Humboldt University awarded him the Dr. Ing. honorary, and he was Corresponding Member of the German Academy of Arts in Berlin. In the GDR he saw his spiritual home, so that in 1960 he handed over to her the archive of his literary work collected by his wife Charlott for the preservation and scientific use. The biography of Leonhard Frank is typical of a German writer in the first half of the 20th century. When he returns from exile to Germany in 1950, it is the third time that an escape from Germany is behind him. During World War I, he leaves his homeland because the few who do not join the Wilhelmine hurray patriotism have no place in it. He goes to Switzerland and writes a pacifist-humanist book, his title "Man is good" should be programmatic for his entire life's work. After 1918, the man who has since returned home belongs to the men who set up the Munich Soviet Republic, and he has to flee again when the reaction succeeds in smashing the German revolution. After the rise of power of fascism in Germany, he can escape 1933 also only by the emigration of the secure arrest. After the third homecoming, he finds two German states in Germany, in which one, in which he lives, he should make the experience that one does not read his books, that one boycott him because he recognizes and expresses this realization that the other German state, the GDR, in contrast to West Germany consistently draws the lessons of German history. When he dies in 1961, his death in his hometown Würzburg should once again clear the fronts. The city fathers of Würzburg, asked to name a street after him, refused their consent; The Würzburg workers then demonstratively name their union house after the poet. What is the poetic substance of this eminently autobiographical work, which includes novels such as The Robber Gang, Das Ochsenfurter Männerquartett, Mathilde, The Disciples of Jesus and Links Where the Heart Is, and Such Outstanding Novels as Crash "," Karl and Anna "and" German Novelle ". It is the belief in the good in man. This humanist German poet, who saw in socialism the only alternative of humanity, has enriched German literature with a very special and special touch.