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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 Number1654
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID875660
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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 personalities of the German labor movement OTTO GROTEWOHL was born on 11 March 1894, the son of a working class family in Braunschweig. As a 15-year-old book printer apprentice, he joined the ranks of the Socialist Workers Youth in Braunschweig. In 1912 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany. At the age of 27, he was the youngest minister in the Weimar Republic in the Brunswick Parliament. In the time of fascism, he was subjected to persecution and charged with treason. After the liberation of the German people, his political activity was directed towards the production of the unity of the working class. His struggle in the German labor movement is inextricably linked to the founding of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, whose chairman he was with Wilhelm Pieck until 1954. His work "Thirty Years Later" is an example of settling with opportunism. In his important speech "Anvil or Hammer", on the occasion of the FDJ's celebration of Goethe in March 1947, he called on the youth to take sides, which he characterized as a test of the development of personality. On October 12, 1949, a few days after the foundation of the GDR, Grotewohl was elected prime minister of the first workers and peasants state on German soil. As an upright friend of the Soviet Union, he campaigned incessantly for the all-round consolidation of the GDR. On September 21, 1964, the outstanding statesman and proletarian internationalist Otto Grotewohl died in 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 special first day cover. Meritorious personalities of the German labor movement OTTO GROTEWOHL was born on 11 March 1894, the son of a working class family in Braunschweig. As a 15-year-old book printer apprentice, he joined the ranks of the Socialist Workers Youth in Braunschweig. In 1912 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany. At the age of 27, he was the youngest minister in the Weimar Republic in the Brunswick Parliament. In the time of fascism, he was subjected to persecution and charged with treason. After the liberation of the German people, his political activity was directed towards the production of the unity of the working class. His struggle in the German labor movement is inextricably linked to the founding of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, whose chairman he was with Wilhelm Pieck until 1954. His work "Thirty Years Later" is an example of settling with opportunism. In his important speech "Anvil or Hammer", on the occasion of the FDJ's celebration of Goethe in March 1947, he called on the youth to take sides, which he characterized as a test of the development of personality. On October 12, 1949, a few days after the foundation of the GDR, Grotewohl was elected prime minister of the first workers and peasants state on German soil. As an upright friend of the Soviet Union, he campaigned incessantly for the all-round consolidation of the GDR. On September 21, 1964, the outstanding statesman and proletarian internationalist Otto Grotewohl died in Berlin..