Women in German history (''Frauen der deutschen Geschichte'') is a
definitive stamp
A definitive stamp is a postage stamp that is part of the regular issue of a country's stamps, available for sale by the post office for an extended period of time and designed to serve the everyday postal needs of the country. The term is used in ...
series issued in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and
West Berlin from 1986 to 1990, and in reunited Germany 1990 to 2003. The series was replaced by the current definitive series ''Blumen'' (flowers) from 3 January 2005.
Description
The stamps were designed by
Gerd and Oliver Aretz.
Each stamp represents a portrait of a famous German woman. Two are Austrian:
Lise Meitner
Elise Meitner ( , ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on rad ...
and
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (; ; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel ...
. The color of the portrait is different from the color of the country name and
denomination.
The name of the country on the stamps changed according to German history :
*"''Deutsche Bundespost''" (Federal German Post), 1986–1990 in Western Germany and 1990–1995 in reunited Germany,
*"''Deutsche Bundespost – Berlin''", 1986–1990 for a use in
West Berlin,
*"''Deutschland''" (Germany) since 1995.
The currency of the denomination changed too with the introduction of the
euro:
*1986 to 2000, expressed in
pfennig and without a unit. For example: "100" for 100 pfennig (or 1
deutsche Mark).
*in 2000 and 2001, the denomination is in pfennig and in euro (with use of € symbol).
*since 2002, only euro is used with the € symbol.
Even if it was a definitive stamp series, because of the Reunification of Germany some issues for Westberlin were used only a short time and stamps with postmarks from real post services (not the collectors postmarks like most of ''Berlin 12'') are rare.
List of the stamps
Women in German history (FRG and West Berlin)
Women in German history (after German reunification)
Women in German history (in euro)
References
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Lists of people on postage stamps
Postage stamps of Germany
German women