East Germany is the common name for the German Democratic Republic. During the “Cold War” period from 1949 to 1990 it was an eastern bloc state which was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II. It was during this period that the Soviet Zone surrounded west Berlin, but did not include it. This created the divided Berlin with the famous wall in between the two parts of the city. The Soviets began transferring administrative authority to German Communist leaders in 1948, and East Germany as we knew it, began to function as a state in 1949. Soviet forces remained in the country until reunification in 1990.
Under Soviet occupation, by 1946, stamps bearing the inscription “Deutsche Post”, valid in all areas of East Germany, were being issued. The first stamp was issued on 9 October 1949 and it commemorated the Universal Postal Union. The Deutsche Post issued in excess of 2800 stamps between 1949 and re-unification in 1990. Stamps were a means of gaining hard currency from abroad from stamp dealers and philatelists.
1950
1st Winter Sports Meeting Series
SG # E6
Used (Hinged)
President Wilhelm Pieck Series
SG # E70
Used
SG # E14
Used (Hinged)
1951
Visit of Polish President to Berlin Series
SG # E42
Used (Hinged)
German-Soviet Friendship Series
SG # E53
Used (Hinged)
SG # E54
Used (Hinged)
1952
3rd Winter Sports Meeting Series, Oberhof
SG # E55
Used (Hinged)
1953
President’s Birthday Series
SG # E320
Used
5 Year Plan Series – design in minute dots
SG # E120
Used (Hinged)
SG # E122
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SG # E123
Used (Hinged)
SG # E124
Used (Hinged)
SG # E125
Used
SG # E126
Used (Hinged)
SG # E127
Used (Hinged)
SG # E128
Used (Hinged)
SG # E131
Used (Hinged)
SG # E132
Used (Hinged)
SG # E135
Used (Hinged)
SG # E137
Used (Hinged)
5 Year Plan Series – design in lines
SG # E310
Used (Hinged)
SG # E156
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SG # E124
Used (Hinged)
SG # E311
Used (Hinged)
SG # E313
Unused (Hinged)
SG # E163
Used (Hinged)
SG # E314
Used (Hinged)
SG # E165
Used (Hinged)
SG # E315
Used
SG # E316
Unused (NH)
SG # E169
Used (Hinged)
SG # E317
Used (Hinged)
SG # E171
Used (Hinged)
SG # E318
Used (Hinged)
SG # E173
Used
SG # E319
Unused (Hinged)
SG # E175
Used (Hinged)
1954
5 Year Plan Series (Surcharge)
SG # E189
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SG # E190
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SG # E191
Used
SG # E192
Used (Hinged)
SG # E194
Used (Hinged)
SG # E196
Used (Hinged)
SG#E197
Used (Hinged)
1955
International Conference of Municipal Workers in Vienna Series
SG # E206
Used (Hinged)
1956
Leipzig Autumn Fair Series
SG # E274
Used (Hinged)
1957
Stamp Day Series
SG # E339
Used (Hinged)
Air Series
SG # E350
Used (Hinged)
SG # E351
Used (Hinged)
SG # E352
Used
SG # E353
Used (Hinged)
SG # E354
Used (Hinged)
1958
Stamp Day Series
SG # E397
Used (Hinged)
1959
Nature Preservation Series
SG # E422
Used (Hinged)
SG # 424
Used (Hinged)
SG # E425
Used (Hinged)
Birds of the Homeland Series
SG # E432
Used (Hinged)
SG # E433
Used (Hinged)
SG # E435
Used (Hinged)
SG # E436
Used (Hinged)
SG # E437
Used (Hinged)
3rd German Gymnastics & Sports Festival Leipzig Series
SG # E440
Used (Hinged)
SG # E441
Used (Hinged)
SG # E442
Used (Hinged)
SG # E443
Used (Hinged)
1961
Landscapes and Historical Buildings Series
SG # E547
Unused (Hinged)
SG # E548
Used
SG # E549
Unused (Hinged)
SG # E550
Unused (Hinged)
SG # E551
Used (Hinged)
Walter Ulbrict Series
SG # E577
Used (Hinged)
SG # E578
Used (Hinged)
SG # E579
Used (NH)
SG # E580
Used (Hinged)
SG # E581
Used (Hinged)
SG # E582
Used
SG # E582a
Used (Hinged)
SG # E583
Used (Hinged)
SG # E584
Used
SG # E584a
Used (Hinged)
SG # E585
Used (Hinged)
SG # E586
Used (Hinged)
Stamp Day Series
SG # E601
Used (Hinged)
2nd Russian Manned Space Flight Series
SG # E606
Used (Hinged)
1962
Leipzig Spring Fair Series
SG # E612
Used (Hinged)
10th DDR Agricultural Exhibition Series (Markkleeberg)
SG # E634
Used (Hinged)
1963
2nd Team Manned Space Flight Series
SG # E691 and E692
Used (Hinged)
Visit of Soviet Cosmonauts to East Berlin Series
SG # E714
Used (Hinged)
SG # E715
Used (Hinged)
SG # E716
Used (Hinged)
1964
Mr Khrushchev’s 70th Birthday Series
SG # E741
Used (Hinged)
German Youth Meeting Series – Berlin
SG # E743
Used (Hinged)
1965
Walter Ulbricht Series of 1961 (Values expressed in MDN (Deutschen Notenbank Marks)
SG # E806
Used
125th Birth Anniversary of Auguste Bebel (Founder of Social Democratic Party) Series
SG # E807
Used (Hinged)
700th Birth Anniversary of Dante Series
SG # E815
Used (Hinged)
90th Birth Anniversary of Dr Wilhelm Kulz (Politician) Series
SG # E839
Used (Hinged)
1966
8th World Parachute Jumping Championships, Leipzig Series
SG # E913
Used (Hinged)
Aquarium Fishes Series
SG # E941
Used (Hinged)
1967
Protected Birds Series
SG # E993
Used (Hinged)
1968
Dresden Gallery Paintings (2nd Series)
SG # E1114
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1115
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1116
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1117
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1118
Used (Hinged)
1969
20th Anniversary of German Democratic Republic Series
SG # E1217
Used (Hinged)
1970
Aid for Vietnam and Ho-Chi-Minh Commemoration Series
SG # E1325
Used (Hinged)
1971
Moon Mission of Lunokhod I Series
SG # E1380
Used (Hinged)
1972
Aid for Vietnam Series
SG # E1462
Used
Art Treasures of Dresden’s Green Vaults Series
SG # E1405
Used (Hinged)
International Rose Exhibition Series – German Species
SG # E1485
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1486
Used (Hinged)
1973
Various Scenes Series – 29 x 24mm
SG # E1533
Used
SG # E1534
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1535
Used (NH)
SG # E1536
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1537
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1539
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1541
Used
SG # E1543
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1545
Used (Hinged)
Various Scenes Series – 22 x 18mm
SG # E2197
Used (Hinged)
SG # E2198
Used (Hinged)
SG # E2199
Used
SG # E2200
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1549a
Used (Hinged)
SG # E2203
Used (Hinged)
SG # E2207
Used (Hinged)
Cultural Anniversaries Series
SG # E1552
Used (Hinged)
15th Anniversary of Problems of “Peace and Socialism” Series
SG # E1605
Used (Hinged)
Admission of German Democratic Republic to United Nations Organisation Series
SG # E1607
Used
25th Anniversary of Declaration of Human Rights Series
SG # E1622
Used (Hinged)
1974
Poisonous Fungi Series
SG # E1650
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1651
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1652
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1653
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1654
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1655
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1656
Used (Hinged)
Celebrities Birth Anniversaries
SG # E1661
Used (Hinged)
25th Anniversary of 1st World Peace Congress Series
SG # E1663
Used
1975
5th National Youth Sports Day Series
SG # E1782
Used (Hinged)
Winter Olympic Games Series, Innsbruck
SG # E1814
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1815
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1816
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1817
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1818
Used (Hinged)
1976
Members of German Workers’ Movement Series
SG # E1825
Used (Hinged)
19th Century Horse-drawn Vehicles Series
SG # E1863
Used
SG # E1865
Used (Hinged)
SG # E1866
Used (Hinged)
1977
Socialist Personalities Series
SG # E1979
Used
1978
Half-timbered Buildings Series
SG # E2009
Used (Hinged)
1984
Town Arms 2nd Series
SG # E2569
Used (Hinged)
1985
Leipzig Spring Fair Series
SG # E2641
Used (Hinged)
Town Arms 3rd Series
SG # E2645
Used (Hinged)
1989
150th Anniversary of Leipzig-Dresden Railway Series (first German long-distance service)
SG # E2939
Used (Hinged)
Statues of Roland (2nd Series)
SG # E2984
Used