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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 
Colorviolet
PerforationK 13 1/2: 13
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number1650
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID970698
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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. Quarter 1974. No special first-day cover Meritful personalities of the German labor movement ETKAR ANDRE a friend and companion of Ernst Thälmann, was born on January 17, 1894 in Aachen, the son of a craftsman. As a docker, his path through the union representation of interests in January 1923 logically led him into the ranks of the KPD, in which he developed into an outstanding organizer of the struggle of the revolutionary working-class movement. To him, the co-founder of the Red Front Fighters' League in the district of Wasserante and deputies of the Hamburg citizenship in the years 1928-1933, focused the hatred of the fascist reaction. After the establishment of Hitler's dictatorship, the fascists saw the time had come to avenge Etkar André. Arrested on March 5, 1933, he suffered three and a half years of terrible ill-treatment. Crippled, they failed to break loyalty to the working class and socialism. In the trial, he became the prosecutor of the fascist regime and refuted the charges against him and his party. Courageous and undaunted, he shouted to the fascist judges, "Your honor is not my honor, and my honor is not your honor, for we separate worldviews, separate classes, divide a deep gulf ... I do not want mercy! I have lived, and as a fighter I will die with the last words: Long live communism! " Convicted to death on 10 July 1936, Etkar André was murdered on 4 November 1936 in Hamburg.

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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. Quarter 1974. No special first-day cover Meritful personalities of the German labor movement ETKAR ANDRE a friend and companion of Ernst Thälmann, was born on January 17, 1894 in Aachen, the son of a craftsman. As a docker, his path through the union representation of interests in January 1923 logically led him into the ranks of the KPD, in which he developed into an outstanding organizer of the struggle of the revolutionary working-class movement. To him, the co-founder of the Red Front Fighters' League in the district of Wasserante and deputies of the Hamburg citizenship in the years 1928-1933, focused the hatred of the fascist reaction. After the establishment of Hitler's dictatorship, the fascists saw the time had come to avenge Etkar André. Arrested on March 5, 1933, he suffered three and a half years of terrible ill-treatment. Crippled, they failed to break loyalty to the working class and socialism. In the trial, he became the prosecutor of the fascist regime and refuted the charges against him and his party. Courageous and undaunted, he shouted to the fascist judges, "Your honor is not my honor, and my honor is not your honor, for we separate worldviews, separate classes, divide a deep gulf ... I do not want mercy! I have lived, and as a fighter I will die with the last words: Long live communism! " Convicted to death on 10 July 1936, Etkar André was murdered on 4 November 1936 in Hamburg..