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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 
Colorgreen
PerforationK 13 1/2: 13
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1657
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID27934
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Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement, 2nd Edition 1974 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues three special postage stamps depicting meritorious personalities of the German workers' movement. No special first-day cover letter Meritorious personalities of the German labor movement Rudolf Breitscheid was born on 2 November 1874 as the son of a bookstore assistant in Cologne. After studying economics in Munich and Marburg, he received his doctorate in 1898 as a doctor. phil. For several years he worked as an editor at liberal magazines. In 1912 he joined the Social Democratic Party. During the First World War he came into conflict with the "peace policy" of the right-wing social-democratic leaders and joined the USPD in April 1917. Elected to the Reichstag in 1920, he belonged to him until 1933. From June 1931 to April 1933 he was a member of the party executive of the SPD. Since 1928 he had the function of chairman of the Social Democratic Reichstag faction and was its spokesman, especially on foreign policy issues. Although Breitscheid recognized the dangerousness of Hitler's fascism, but rejected the united front with the KPD to prevent the fascist dictatorship. The fascist terror, which particularly hit the Communists and Social Democrats hard, forced him to emigrate in March 1933. The bitter experiences of the defeat of the German working class gave him cause for a critical examination of social-democratic politics and his own point of view. He participated in the work initiated by the KPD of the Paris Committee for the Preparation of a German Popular Front. Together with Wilhelm Pieck Breitscheid was in December 1936 co-signer of the appeal "Forms the German Popular Front! For peace, freedom and bread!" After the penetration of the fascist troops in France, he was arrested by the compliant French authorities in February 1941, handed over to the Gestapo and deported after months of interrogation in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Also in the concentration camp he expressed the necessity of the unity of the working-class movement. On August 24, 1944, he was fatally injured in an Anglo-American air raid.

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Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement, 2nd Edition 1974 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues three special postage stamps depicting meritorious personalities of the German workers' movement. No special first-day cover letter Meritorious personalities of the German labor movement Rudolf Breitscheid was born on 2 November 1874 as the son of a bookstore assistant in Cologne. After studying economics in Munich and Marburg, he received his doctorate in 1898 as a doctor. phil. For several years he worked as an editor at liberal magazines. In 1912 he joined the Social Democratic Party. During the First World War he came into conflict with the "peace policy" of the right-wing social-democratic leaders and joined the USPD in April 1917. Elected to the Reichstag in 1920, he belonged to him until 1933. From June 1931 to April 1933 he was a member of the party executive of the SPD. Since 1928 he had the function of chairman of the Social Democratic Reichstag faction and was its spokesman, especially on foreign policy issues. Although Breitscheid recognized the dangerousness of Hitler's fascism, but rejected the united front with the KPD to prevent the fascist dictatorship. The fascist terror, which particularly hit the Communists and Social Democrats hard, forced him to emigrate in March 1933. The bitter experiences of the defeat of the German working class gave him cause for a critical examination of social-democratic politics and his own point of view. He participated in the work initiated by the KPD of the Paris Committee for the Preparation of a German Popular Front. Together with Wilhelm Pieck Breitscheid was in December 1936 co-signer of the appeal "Forms the German Popular Front! For peace, freedom and bread!" After the penetration of the fascist troops in France, he was arrested by the compliant French authorities in February 1941, handed over to the Gestapo and deported after months of interrogation in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Also in the concentration camp he expressed the necessity of the unity of the working-class movement. On August 24, 1944, he was fatally injured in an Anglo-American air raid..