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Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1974 - 10 Pfennig


Theme: Calender
CountryGermany / German Democratic Republic
Issue Date1974
Face Value10.00 
Colorbrown
PerforationK 13 1/2: 13
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1652
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID236975
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Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues eight special postage stamps depicting meritorious personalities of the German workers' movement. Three more values ​​of this series appear in the III. No 1974. No special first-day cover. Meritorious personalities of the German labor movement HERMANN DUNCKER was born on May 24, 1874 in Hamburg, the son of a merchant. At 19, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Impressed by the writings of Marx and Engels and in close contact with the workers' movement, he studied economics, philosophy and history in Leipzig. Duncker consistently sided with the German left. As a personal friend of Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring and Wilhelm Pieck he led with them the fight against revisionism in the labor movement and the imperialist war. He is one of the co-founders of the group Internationale and of the KPD and was one of the first to refer to Lenin and Leninism. More than 50 years of his life, Hermann Duncker has worked as an outstanding connoisseur of the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, as a teacher, propagandist and journalist of Marxism-Leninism in the German workers' movement. Many thousands of fighters against exploitation and oppression, against militarism and war, for peace and socialism have been raised by him. After his return from exile in 1947, in which he had been driven by fascism, he contributed by his work as dean at the University of Rostock and from 1949 as director of the Federal School of the FDGB significantly to the founding and consolidation of the GDR. Highly honored by party and government, Hermann Duncker died on June 22, 1960 in Bernau near Berlin.

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Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues eight special postage stamps depicting meritorious personalities of the German workers' movement. Three more values ​​of this series appear in the III. No 1974. No special first-day cover. Meritorious personalities of the German labor movement HERMANN DUNCKER was born on May 24, 1874 in Hamburg, the son of a merchant. At 19, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Impressed by the writings of Marx and Engels and in close contact with the workers' movement, he studied economics, philosophy and history in Leipzig. Duncker consistently sided with the German left. As a personal friend of Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring and Wilhelm Pieck he led with them the fight against revisionism in the labor movement and the imperialist war. He is one of the co-founders of the group Internationale and of the KPD and was one of the first to refer to Lenin and Leninism. More than 50 years of his life, Hermann Duncker has worked as an outstanding connoisseur of the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, as a teacher, propagandist and journalist of Marxism-Leninism in the German workers' movement. Many thousands of fighters against exploitation and oppression, against militarism and war, for peace and socialism have been raised by him. After his return from exile in 1947, in which he had been driven by fascism, he contributed by his work as dean at the University of Rostock and from 1949 as director of the Federal School of the FDGB significantly to the founding and consolidation of the GDR. Highly honored by party and government, Hermann Duncker died on June 22, 1960 in Bernau near Berlin..