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The main modern providers of
service were the Reichspost , the Deutsche Post of the GDR , the
Deutsche Bundespost , along with the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin, and are
now the Deutsche Post AG
The Metzger Post is credited to be perhaps the first international post
of the Middle Ages[
In 1497, on behalf of Emperor Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire,
Franz von Taxis established a postal service that replaced the ad-hoc
courier for official mail.
until Napoleon granted the Rhine Confederation the right to conduct
postal services
The Deutsche Reichspost started officially on May 4, 1871 using
initially stamps of the North German Confederation until it issued its
first stamps on January 1, 1872.. Heinrich von Stephan, inventor of the
postcard and founder of the Universal Postal Union, was the first
Postmaster-General The most common stamps of the Reichspost were the
Germania stamps.
Imperial Germany maintained postal offices in Marocco,
Turkey, and China. Issued stamps consisted of German stamps imprinted
with the local denomination and the name of the country.
During world war I, German authorities issued stamps in occupied
countries, namely Belgium, Poland, Romania, and areas of the western and
eastern front.[9]
The Reichspost continued to function as a governmental entity after
Germany became a republic. In 1919 the Reichspost issued its first
commemorative, airmail, and semipostal stamps.. In 1923 during
hyperinflation, the Reichspost issued stamps up to 50 billion marks. The
main common stamp series then was the "famous German people" series.
After the Treaty of Versailles Allenstein and Marienwerder, Schleswig,
and Upper Silesiaa underwent plebiscites in 1920 to determine
their future fate.and briefly issued stamps: .
Tthe Free City of Danzig was established as an independent entity in
1920.and Danzig introduced its own stamps until 1939.
The Memel Territory was established. Initially German then French
and Lithuanian overprinted stamps were used. Memel issued stamps until
when is was annexed by Lithuania.
and the Saar territory , administered by the League of Nations, issued
its own stamps from 1920 to 1935 After WWII Following a
referendum it was returned to Germany and continued its stamps series
until 1959.
During the "Third Reich" the Reichspost continued to function as a
monopoly of the government With the occupation of Germany by
the Allied powers postal services returned but were administered under
different authorities. Allied. French and Soviet zone.in wich various
provinces released different stamps, namely Berlin-Brandenburg,
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxonia and Thuringia. In 1946, German
stamps were issued as Deutsche Post for the American, British, and
Soviet zones but not the French zone. With the development of the
cold war, however, attempts to unify the postal system failed, - the
common stamps were replaced by 1948 by definitives for the Soviet zone,
and different sets of stamps for the bizone, already prior to the
establishment of the two German republics.
West Berlin under the jurisdiction of the three western powers started
to release its own stamps on September 3, 1948. It continued to emit
stamps under the Deutsche Bundespost Berlin label until the
reunification in 1990.
Germany (Allied Occupation)
American, British and Russian Zones , Anglo-American Zones ,
Anglo-American Zones, Baden ,Postage of Berlin-Brandenburg in the
Russian Zone ,
French Zone, Postage of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the Russian Zone,
Postage of North West Saxony in the Russian Zone , Postage of the
Rhineland - Palatinate in the French Zone , Russian Zone (General
Issues), Saar (French Zone) ,
Saxony (Russian Zone), Postage of South East Saxony in the Russian Zone
, Thuringia (Russian Zone) , Württemberg (French Zone) ,
With the formation of the German Democratic Republic
(GDR) the Deutsche Post of the GDR service was established as the
governmental agency to provide mail services. The production of these
often beautiful stamps was prolifi With the 1990 reunification, the
Deutsche Post became part of the ’’Deutsche Bundespost’’.
With the German reunificationo n 3 October 1990, the Bundespost with the
incorporated Deutsche Post of the GDR provided postal services for the
whole territory of the Federal Republic, and German stamps regardless of
origin were postally valid until their date of expiration: for the
stamps of the GDR
Germany Postage , Definitive and Commemorative stamps Pictorials ,
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