Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1975 - 20 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1975 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five special postage stamps with portraits of important personalities. No special first-day cover envelope 20-pfennig value: Albert Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer was born on January 14, 1875, the son of a parish administrator in Kaysersberg / Oberelsaß. He completed his studies at the University of Strasbourg in 1893 with the Doctor of Theology and Philosophy. Even as a young man, he was also an important musicologist and organist. Through a missionary article Schweitzer learned about the illness in Gabon. Intending to provide active help, he studied medicine and worked as a friend and helper of blacks after completing his studies and additional training in tropical medicine from 1913 until his death on 4 September 1960, when the "Grand Docteur" in Lambarene (Gabon). With the establishment of the hospital and his "immediate human service" as a primeval forest doctor in Lambarene Albert Schweitzer gave his example to practice the equality between black and white and true humanity. In the time of the general crisis of the bourgeois system, in his work he tried to save and defend humanist traditions of the past from which his class had already separated without scruples. The consequence of his doctrine of reverence for life - made honest by the act - urged Albert Schweitzer to use his authority for respect for war, for the abolition of nuclear weapons, for the peaceful resolution of all political problems. Thus he earned a permanent place in the series of combatants for peace, humanism and international understanding and was honored in 1953 with the Nobel Peace Prize. In the socialist society, the legacy of the great bourgeois humanist, physician and helper of the oppressed has found its place.