I Love German History, My Stamps

I am a big military history buff and have read many books on German military history for the time period between 1850 through WWII. I was pleased to find many German stamps in my collection and really enjoyed discovering the history involved with the Weimar Republic era.

I found that there are many great sources in these forums for German stamps....I look forward to learning more about these. (Please don't take any offense to the first 2 rows, no glorification intended.)

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Very nice stamps. But, I would suggest you to go to the library and get a cataloge.
So, you'll be able to separate German stamps from those from Austria (Page, 2 #5 & #8), Occupied Bohemia and Moravia (pag, 1 #12), Occupied Poland (= General Governement, page, #39); as well as 2nd and 3rd Reichs, Weimar Republic, Berlin, Allied Occupation, Soviet Occupation, DDR, Postage Due...

To end, just point that in Germany history and culture there's much more than military history. Hitler himself, was not German, but from Bohemia (today's Czech Republic), Beethoven was German, Albert Schweitzer (Peace Nobel Price), Koch and Einstein were Germans.

Nice set of stamps. I have most of them from my early 1950s collecting days, and estates that I have bought. They are not fully organized yet as this is not an area of great interest to me. Some watermarks have value.

Mr H was Austrian (not the place that has kangaroos, that is Australia).

Ever since WWII I learned that Hitler was Austrian. As a matter of fact, he was born in Braunau am Inn on 20 April 1889, a town that has been situated in Austria ever since 1816!

Peter

@Cursus - yes, perhaps I should have said "German" stamps in quotes....the part I am looking forward to is figuring out what-is-what and where and when. For now, these are just divided out as "Reich," which covers many countries and territories, area, etc. with some Germanic influence. I also have many post-war stamps to figure out what-is-what. Hours of fun. I have access to a 2008 Scott catalog....but have not gotten to the next step of sorting and cataloging.

Thanks for all the comment!

Probably Cursus is referring to the quote in which Hindenburg supposedly called Hitler "that Bohemian corporal".

Cursus - That was Freddie Hitler - Adolph's very nice twin. They were separated at birth for adoption.

Here are a couple of sites to help out. You vil go der!



http://www.hobbizine.com/page0014.html

I don't know what anyone could learn from that first
utube video.

Blurry images of stamps in no particular order.

Why combine a Heuss stamp from the 50s Federal Republic of

Germany with a 1923 inflation issue?

Same with coupling a DDR definitive with an infaltion issue?

And the music.

Totally stupid and useless.

@marmus, if you are really interested in German stamps
then get a Michel Deutschland Katalog.

They are not cheap but you should be able to pick
up a fairly recent used copy from ebay for a reasonable
price.

They come in an English version.

Welcome! I am an avid collector of German stamps. German history and philately are fascinating to me as well, particularly the Weimar period. With all the various occupations and temporary splinter-states that are also usually considered part of German philately, the possibilities are almost endless.

Considering Central European history, what it meant to be German or Hungarian, for that matter, was not necessarily defined by borders, but at times by language or political affiliation. Plenty of members of the political entity, the Austro Hungarian empire, considered themselves German, others not. That the northern states gained dominance rather than the Habsburg empire was an event that easily could have turned out differently. This and the consequences of two world wars, and the consequent redrawing of borders, tends to color [our view] of heritage and nationality.

I very much enjoy collecting German stamps, and I think your collection is a great start. As the others have said, you should really start separating the stamps by country!

Hi Marmus, I was looking for people that might collect similar stamps to me and I found this thread.

I had a mixed German collection like yours 2 years ago but now I have it sorted into all of it's components. Germany is a very complicated place. I'm only new here and I'm not sure if I can post a pdf file? but I have a very good table / flowchart showing all of the intricacies of Germany. I could send it to you if you emailed me.

Hitler was born in Austria in Braunau. There is a town in Bohemia with the same or similar spelling. Some German generals, knowingly used this to mock Hitler as the 'Bohemian corporal'.

The joke I heard was something like 'Austria's Great Lie - convincing the world Hitler was German and Beethoven was Austrian'.

The history that goes along with collecting Germany just makes it so interesting, I reckon. There's a lot of stories just in the stamps in those 2 scans. I encourage you to get into it.

You said you studied the conflicts going back away. Places like Saar, on the French border have changed ownership many times. Saar has changed 3 times in Philatelic historical times. There are a lot of German occupation stamps out there and fun to collect. I'd like to include an image but can't see how to?
Mark

organicm,

To post images, they need to be an image file like jpg (not PDF) and use a photo posting website like Photobucket. Then you post the link in forums to display image.