Europe - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1969 - 20 Pfennig

The European Conference on Telecommunications and Telecommunications (CEPT) selects for each year a Europareken draft, which is available to the member countries for the joint issue. The common European brands are therefore the same in motif. However, they differ in the currency and by designation of the issuing country. The draft for the Europe stamps in 1969 was selected by the CEPT Commission "Post" at an extraordinary meeting on January 25, 1968 in Villars sur Ollon in Switzerland. The joint drafts for the Europe stamps of 1970 and 1971 were also chosen at this meeting. It appears from the press release issued at the end of the session that in 1970 a draft submitted by the Irish postal administration and in 1972 a draft submitted by the Icelandic Postal Administration will be executed. The design shows a solid architectural structure whose main element, an arcade, consists of the letters EUROPA and CEPT. The whole symbolizes the strength and cohesion of a future united Europe, to which the CEPT wishes to contribute. The postal administrations involved were free to indicate the tenth anniversary of the CEPT by adding the dates of 1959 1969. The Deutsche Bundespost has made use of this opportunity. A newsletter sent by the CEPT Secretariat in 1969, before the launch of the Europamarken, indicates that this year all 24 members of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations will participate in the issue of the Europamarken on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Organization. Only three postal administrations have had to choose a different issue date (Greece: 5 May, Liechtenstein: 24 April and Great Britain: 1 April week) instead of Monday before the annual European Day on 5 May (28 April 1969).