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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 Number1656
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID608517
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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 special first day cover. Meritorious figures of the German labor movement GEORG HANDKE was born on April 22, 1894 in Hanau (Main), the son of a locksmith. The political development of the trained industrial and banker led through the revolutionary workers' youth and the USPD to the KPD, which he belonged to since its foundation. At the time of the Weimar Republic, Georg Handke was chief editor of communist daily newspapers and head of department in the Central Committee of the KPD. From 1933 until his arrest in the autumn of 1934, he belonged to the illegal state leadership of the KPD. After the liberation from Hitler's fascism - for Georg Handke at the same time liberation from eleven years in prison - many responsible functions were transferred to him. His work - u.a. As President of the German Central Administration for Trade and Supply, Deputy Chairman of the German Economic Commission, Minister for Home Affairs and Foreign Trade and First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, he helped to develop and consolidate our working class and peasant power and the development of close brotherly relations of the GDR to the Soviet Union and to the other socialist states. From 1958 until his death on September 7, 1962 Georg Handke was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and President of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship.

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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 special first day cover. Meritorious figures of the German labor movement GEORG HANDKE was born on April 22, 1894 in Hanau (Main), the son of a locksmith. The political development of the trained industrial and banker led through the revolutionary workers' youth and the USPD to the KPD, which he belonged to since its foundation. At the time of the Weimar Republic, Georg Handke was chief editor of communist daily newspapers and head of department in the Central Committee of the KPD. From 1933 until his arrest in the autumn of 1934, he belonged to the illegal state leadership of the KPD. After the liberation from Hitler's fascism - for Georg Handke at the same time liberation from eleven years in prison - many responsible functions were transferred to him. His work - u.a. As President of the German Central Administration for Trade and Supply, Deputy Chairman of the German Economic Commission, Minister for Home Affairs and Foreign Trade and First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, he helped to develop and consolidate our working class and peasant power and the development of close brotherly relations of the GDR to the Soviet Union and to the other socialist states. From 1958 until his death on September 7, 1962 Georg Handke was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and President of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship..