Deutsches Reichpost Winterhilfswerk on Sudetenland

 

DEUTSCHES REICHPOST in 1939 issued a set of nine stamps entitled Winterhilfswerk  (Winter Relief Organization Buildings) - No. 730 - 738. Interestingly, the buildings featured in this series included those not only in Germany but from the annexed territories of the Sudetenland and Austria. The stamps shown here are not mint, and hence each bears a different cancellation postmark.

The nine designs shown are as follows:

• 03 Pf. + 02 Pf. - Elbogen a.d. Elger.
• 04 Pf. + 03 Pf. - Drachenfels Schloss.
• 05 Pf. + 03 Pf. - Goslar.
• 06 Pf. + 04 Pf. - Graz.
• 08 Pf. +  04 Pf. - Frankfurt/Main.
• 12 Pf. + 06 Pf. - Klagenfurt.
• 15 Pf. + 10 Pf. - Schreckenstein Schloss.
• 25 Pf. + 15 Pf. -  Salzburg.
• 40 Pf. + 35 Pf. - Hohentwiel Schloss.

PLUS, 

- European Postal Congress (Vienna 1942)

- Hornpost (1920s)

- Dienstmarke 'straw hat weave' (1927)

- Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925), 1st President of Germany  during Weimar Republic (1928).