German stamps 2021 – cancel cornucopia

German stamps 2021 – cancel cornucopia

Cataloguing  German stamps 2021 would have been a fast job if I was only after stamps. But, alas, I like cancels, FDCs, and info sheets. There were certain interesting challenges in finding everything on offer. These extended to the usual translation issues, discovering not all information can be found in one location, and specifics about types of philatelic items on offer.  I can’t believe I’m only up to April. Next year, I’ll be sure to start Germany early.

Not quite sure what to do with a few items Deutsche Post offers, like Steckkarten, which translates to plug-in cards. I want to get my hands on one to fully understand what they are, but they appear to be thematic or year packs. I really need to find my German-to-English dictionary.  

German stamps 2021 cancels/postmarks  

If there’s one thing Germany excels at, it’s issuing magnificent postmarks. However, they presented an odd challenge this time. I struggled with the 3 levels offered. It might be an odd translation issue I’m dealing with, or perhaps Germany simply takes a more expansive approach to them.

First batch of cancels was pretty straight forward, the basic commemoratives. These were both stand alone cancels and issued with specific stamps & covers. I’ve noticed over the past few months that this is common practice in many countries, unlike Canada. They are richly detailed pictorial commemoratives like this one: 

Überseequartier - Hamburg U-Bahn line U4 Bonn cancel
These postmarks stand on their own in their ability to tell a story about the event and the blue ink makes them standout. Often you don’t need a translation to understand the topic. The above is pretty easy to decode. It’s a cancel for the Hamburg U-bahn. The majority in this category are like this.

The second set are called 3rd party advertising cancels. These may be familiar with old time collectors. We’d occasionally come across them when a company would commission a special cancel for their product. Off the top of my head, I can’t remember any from Canada Post, but I do remember seeing ones for Kit Kat chocolate bars from Royal Mail. I had one in my collection for years but swapped it for a couple of airmail stamps not long ago. Germany issued a few  this year, including this one for the Suhler Holiday Region: 

Suhler cancel

I tagged these so people know where to hunt for them and to decide if they want strictly postal administration cancels or like me, will grab any, regardless. 

The third set is the area that caused confusion. These translated to Self-promotion postmark (Stempel mit Post-Eigenwerbung). 

Marienburg

This cancel, celebrating the 500 years of the mountain town of Marienberg, is a sample of the Self-promotion postmark offered. They appear to be what could be considered non commercial sponsored issues. Again, the translations I found aren’t that clear. If I’m incorrect on this, please let me know.

Bit of confusion about dates as well  

Another interesting feature was the different issue dates for stamps, FDC and cancels. They don’t always come out the same day. Because the material comes from different sources within the Deutsche Post site, it’s hard to keep it all straight. I’ve made a note of it when necessary or separated them out. That should make it easy for you to find what you’re looking for.

Cool themes & digital issues for German stamps 2021

The first issue of 2021, the Settlement in Lübeck made me think Deutsche Post was issuing a stamp with an image from City Skylines on it. Took a bit to realise what I was looking at. Haven’t made up my mind about it. But the diversity and quality of stamps & cancels offered is exciting. Germany  sometimes uses an innovative approach to the traditional cancel. Case in point: 

Ebert cancel German stamps 2021

The Friedrich Ebert pair strays from the normal drawing/sketch cancel and incorporates photography into them. This is quite a design trick. Cancels are pretty small and they were able to preserve the details and clarity with each one. 

This is Germany’s “year of digital” in both design and security features. Deutsche Post has moved to include QR codes onto stamps. Also called matrix codes when translated, they offer the sender security features and the ability to track and trace a letter or package as it’s travelling through the system. A number of stamps have been included in the “matrix” program. Not sure if matrix is the correct word, but it makes me a giggle for obvious reasons. 

Lots of thematics to collect as well – ships, architecture, anniversaries, more history than you can shake a stick at, fairy tales and der Maus. No not that Maus, a more interesting one. So many things to collect, so little time. 

Cheers
Catpaw

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January German stamps 2021

Germany from Above / Settlement in Lübeck

Settlement in Lübeck special cancel

Settlement in Lübeck from sky maxicard

1 stamp, commemorative cancel, maxi card

POSTMARK PLACE: Lübeck

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Jan. 7, 2021


 

275th birthday Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Part of  series  Europe – Children’s books and ATM posthumous stamps “Writing Letters”

German stamps 2021 cancel for Pestalozzi

German stamps 2021 Pestalozzi FDC

Commemorative cover, cancel
POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn

“Pestalozzi believed in the ability of every individual human being to learn and in the right of every individual to education.” Biography | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Society (jhpestalozzi.org) 

Release date: Jan. 7, 2021


 

175 Years of Children’s Missionary Work
Third-party advertising cancel  issued by a non-philatelic bureau

Kinder mission cancel

175 Years of Children's Missionary Work stamp German stamps 2021

175 Years of Children's Missionary Work sheet of 10 German stamps 2021

1 stamp, sheet of 10, memory sheet (souvenir folder),  cancel

German Children’s Missionary Society founded 1846

Designers: Serge Rompza and Anders Hofgaard, NODE Berlin Oslo

Cancel release date: Feb. 1, 2021 to Apr. 30, 2021

Release date: Jan. 7, 2021

175 Years of Children's Missionary Work special souvenir folder German stamps 2021


 

Suhler Holiday Region
Advertising stamps with third-party advertising

Suhler cancel German stamps 2021

1 commercial cancel

Release date: Jan. 18, 2021 to July 30, 2021


 

Alexander von Humboldt II

ALEXANDER von Humboldt II  cancel showing masted ship German stamps 2021

Commemorative cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Kiel

Cancel shows shows Humbolt in full sail

The AvHII is a 3 masted barque launched in 2011.  It is used as a training vessel. It’s predecessor the Alexander von Humboldt was built in 1906. It was taken out of service in 2011 and eventually became a unique hotel based in Schlachte, Germany. 

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Jan. 19, 2021


 

Magdeburg Cathedral
Cathedral of Saints Maurice and Catherine

Magdeburger dom cancel  German stamps 2021

Commemorative cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Berlin

Cancel shows 1st gothic cathedral built in Germany.   

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Jan. 26, 2021


 

February German stamps 2021

Nonstop Hamburg-Mount Pleasant (Falkland islands)
Sonderflug airbus A350

German stamps 2021 Nonstop flight Hamburg to Falklands cancel showing penguin head

Commemorative cancel in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Hamburg Airport

Cancel shows penguin head

Designer: Kracker, Lübeck

Release date: Feb. 1, 2021


 

Grimm’s  Fairy Tale – Mrs. Holle
(The Test, Reflection and Longing, Rebirth)
From the “For Welfare Care”  in  support  of the Federal Association  of  Free  Welfare Care 

Grimm's  Fairy Tale - Mrs. Holle cancel oneGrimm's  Fairy Tale - Mrs. Holle cancel two

Grimm's  Fairy Tale - Mrs. Holle samp 2 German stamps 2021Grimm's  Fairy Tale - Mrs. Holle stamp 3 German stamps 2021Grimm's  Fairy Tale - Mrs. Holle stamp 1 German stamps 2021

Grimm's Fairy Tale - Mrs. Holle FDC German stamps 2021

3 stamps, *FDC, 2 cancels,  sheets of 10, commemorative pack 

POSTMARK PLACE: Berlin, Bonn

Designer: Michael Kunter, Berlin
Previous designs include 2018 25 Years of the House of History, 2017 German bread culture, 2016 Vineyards in Germany and of course the spectacular 2019 The Brave Little Tailor series.

*FDC includes  0.80 EUR surcharge and info card

Release date: Feb. 4, 2021


 

Grimm’s  Fairy Tale – Mrs. Holle with surcharge

Surcharge goes to various charities

Holle cancelHolle cancel 2

Box of stamps German stamps 2021Sheet of holle German stamps 2021

Box of 100 stamps (The  Test) , sheet of 10, 2 cancels in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn

Postmark designer: Michael Kunter, Berlin
Kunter designed last year’s Europa Historical Postal Routes stamp and the Grimm’s Fairy Tales set.

Release date: Feb. 4, 2021


 

1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany

Jewish life cancel oneJewish life cancel two

Jewish life cancel stamp German stamps 2021Jewish Life FDC German stamps 2021

Jewish life cancel pack

1 stamp, sheets of 10, FDC with info sheet 2 cancels in blue, *commemorative pack

20 original stamps (Bund, Berlin, GDR, 1967 – 2019, all post-fresh in clamping bags) and 2 special stamps “1700 years of Jewish life in Germany” with first-day stamps “Berlin” and “Bonn”

POSTMARK PLACE: Berlin, Bonn

*Commemorative pack includes 20 stamps issued by Bund, Berlin, GDR, 1967 – 2019 an the current issue

Designer: Detlef Behr, Cologne

Release date: Feb. 4, 2021 


 

150th Birthday  Friedrich Ebert

Ebert cancel  German stamps 2021Ebert cancel 2 German stamps 2021

Ebert stamp German stamps 2021Ebert FDC & postcard German stamps 2021

1 stamp, sheets of 10, FDC with info sheet, 2 cancels in blue, postcard

POSTMARK PLACE: Berlin, Bonn

Deutsche Welle has a page on Friedrich Ebert and his influence on German democratic movements. It’s a good read. Friedrich Ebert at 150: Germany′s pioneer of democracy | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 04.02.2021

Designer: Matthias Wittig, Berlin

Release date: Feb. 4, 2021


 

Friedrich Ebert – Digital Change 
“Stamps become digital”

Digital cancel 2Digital cancel

Digital stamp German stamps 2021Digital stamp framed

Digital booklet German stamps 2021Digital commemorative German stamps 2021

Portrait of Friedrich Ebert. The stamp has a special postage code designed to make the package traceable by the customer as well as increase forgery security.

1 stamp, 2 cancels in blue, framed stamp with certificate of authentication (limited to 2000 copies), stamped blank sheet, sheet of 100, handover card with 2 stamps with both cancels, *commemorative pack

POSTMARK PLACE: Berlin, Bonn 

*Commemorative pack includes 5 stamps issued by  Bund, 1984-2019 and a block

Designers: Jan-Niklas Kroeger & Jennifer Dengler, Bonn

Release date: Feb. 4, 2021

Handover card for digital stamps


 

Friedrich Ebert – City of Birth
Self-promotion postmark

Ebert cancel 2 German stamps 2021

Ebert FDC 2 German stamps 2021

FDC, cancel

Shows birthplace on cover

POSTMARK PLACE: Heidelberg

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Feb. 4, 2021


 

Advertising stamp of the  city of Fulda- Musical Summer 
Advertising stamps with third-party advertising

German stamps 2021 Advertising stamp of the  city of Fulda  -  "Musical  Summer" German stamps 2021

The write up on this stamp is a single cryptic line: 
Klischee wird letztmalig am 12.02.2021 eingesetzt | This cliché will be for the last time
used on 02/12/2021
It’s possible the city website will hold the key Stadt Fulda: Home

Release date: Feb. 15, 2021 with no end date


 

Presentation of the 2-euro commemorative coin – Saxony-Anhalt World Money Fair ’21  #DigitalFair
Self-promotion postmark

World Money Fair ’21 German stamps 2021

Commemorative cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Berlin

View of Magdeburg Cathedral
Presentation of the 2-euro commemorative coin “Saxony-indication” from the coin series  “States” during digital fair “World Money Fair” in Berlin

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Feb. 27, 2021

 


 

Kiel Philatelists Association of 1931  
Self-promotion postmark

Kiel Philatelists Association  of  1931

Commemorative cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Kiel

View of Marine Garrision Church, St. Peter’s Church  

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Feb. 27, 2021


March

Children write to Hanni Hare 
Self-promotion postmark

Children write to  Hanni Hare

Hanni Hare is the German Easter Bunny. Deutsche Poste includes an address for children to send letters addressed to Hanni:
Hanni Hase 
At the edge of the forest 12
27404 Ostereistedt

Designer: Stamp Müller, Nuremberg

Release date: March 1, 2021

 


 

U-Bahn-Stations – reissue with digital code

Ubahn digital German stamps 2021

10 stamps, 2 stamps in this special set will have the new “matrix” code. 

Release date: March 1, 2021


 

U-Bahn lines series

Überseequartier - Hamburg U-Bahn line U4 Bonn cancel German stamps 2021Überseequartier - Hamburg U-Bahn line U4 Berlin cancel

Überseequartier - Hamburg U-Bahn line U4 stamp German stamps 2021Frankfurt U-Bahn German stamps 2021 German stamps 2021

  • Überseequartier – Hamburg U-Bahn line U4
  • Westend Frankfurt

2 stamps, 2 cancels in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin

Designer: Jennifer Dengler, Bonn

Release date: March 1, 2021


 

Deep Blue beats Kasparov

Chess piece and board - black piece cancel German stamps 2021Chess piece and board - white piece cancel

Stamp showing a chess piece on it's side German stamps 2021

1 stamp, 2 blue cancels

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin

André Schulz at Chess News wrote a good article on the match 25 years ago: Deep Blue beats Kasparov | ChessBase. It includes the various moves made by both sides. This is a translated version of the article, courtesy Johannes Fischer.  It’s a fascinating article that people who are not familiar with chess will find interesting. 
 
Designer: Thomas Steinacker, Bonn
 
Release date: March 1, 2021
 

 

Die sendung mit der Maus – The show with the Mouse 
50th anniversary of the show (with the elephant and duck)

The mouse turns 50 cancel with mouse sitting on cheese The mouse turns 50 stamp with an elephant delivering mail on cancelGerman stamps 2021 The mouse turns 50 stamp with mouse hugging duck and elephant

The mouse turns 50 stamp German stamps 2021Maus sheet German stamps 2021

1 stamp, 3 cancels in blue,10 pack sheet

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin
Postmarks read: “The  shipment with the mouse”
3rd cancel 

German children’s educational tv program that premiered  March 7 1971

Designer: Bettina Walter, Bonn

Release date: March 1, 2021


 

Issue of the 10 euro commemorative coin
Air Moves  – On  the  Water
Self-promotion postmark

Issue of the 10 euro commemorative coin German stamps 2021

1 commemorative cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Berlin

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: March 3, 2021 


MÜNCHEN Airport

Munik airmport for Lufthansa hub

Airbus A350 Lufthansa hub (year 2018)

POSTMARK PLACE:  München Airport

Release date: March 3, 2021


Louis Reissner
Self-promotion postmark

Louis Riesner

1 commemorative cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Seelow

LOUIS REISSNER / B. 1882 / DEPORTED 1942 / Murdered 1942 in  / GHETTO WARSAW
Born in Seelow, Brandenburg, Germany

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: March 21, 2021


Remembrance Day – 100th anniversary of four-masted barque Sedov in Kiel

Self-promotion postmark

POSTMARK PLACE: Kiel

Release date: March 23, 2021


LH 592 – Opening of the line with airbus A330 to Mombasa (Kenya) and Zanzibar (Tanzania)

Commemorative cancel  with a lobster & coconut drawing German stamps 2021

Commemorative cancel in blue

POSTMARK: Frankfurt en MAIN Airport

The cancel shows an east African coconut crab, also called the palm thief. 

Designer: Kracker, Lübeck

Release date: March 31, 2021


LH 1516 – Opening of scheduled services to Chania (Greece) airbus A320

Opening of scheduled services to Chania German stamps 2021

Commemorative cancel in blue

POSTMARK: Frankfurt en MAIN Airport

The cancel shows Minoan ship 

Designer: Kracker, Lübeck

Release date: March 31, 2021


April German stamps 2021

200th Birthday Sebastian Kneipp

Kneippe cancel Kneippe cancel 4

200th Birthday Sebastian Kneipp, stamp Portrait of Sebastian Kneipp  with illustration of the  five  Kneipp  elements  German stamps 2021200th Birthday Sebastian Kneipp, stamp  German stamps 2021200th birthday Sebastian Kneipp

1 stamp, sheet of 10, info sheet, 2 cancels

On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Finance, we designed a stamp together with Melanie Daveid for the 200th birthday of Sebastian Kneipp.

Kneipp’s natural healing methods are based on the five elements water, exercise, medicinal plants, nutrition and living order and have been recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. In our design, the portrait of Sebastian Kneipp springs from these elements. The stamp was printed with five special colours and is now available in the Deutsche Post shop.
Bureau Now (bureau-now.de) 

Designer: Veit Grünert, Berlin with Melanie Daveid

Release date: April 1, 2021


50 years 100m radio telescope Effelsberg

50 years 100m radio telescope Effelsberg cancel50 years 100m radio telescope Effelsberg

Radio telescope single stamp German stamps 2021Radio telescope single stamp German stamps 2021

1 stamp, sheet of 10, info sheet, info sheet, 2 cancels in blue with a 3rd  released in May 

Designer: Michael Menge, Duisburg

Release date: April 1, 2021


Federal Garden Show Erfurt 2021

Cancel with an insect crawling on itCancel with a blue bee flying Garden show cancel 3

Federal Garden Show Erfurt 2021 German stamps 2021

Federal Garden Show Erfurt 2021

1 stamp, sheet of 10, 2 cancels in blue, 1 self-promotions cancel in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin, Erfurt

Designer: Andrew and Jeffrey Goldstein, Rheinstetten

Release date: April 1, 2021 


Mund Harmonica

Harmonica cancelHarmonica cacnel

Harmonica stamp German stamps 2021Harmonica stamp German stamps 2021

1 stamp, sheet of 10, 2 cancels in blue

The Mund harmonica was probably born in the  1920s.  Invented in Vienna at the end of the 19th century  and  quickly  became a Folk Instrument. Deutsch Post

Designer: Julia Neller, Berlin
Illustration Larry Adler (1914 – 2001)

Release date: April 1, 2021 


500 years of Martin Luther at the Reichstag in Worms

Martin Luther cancel

Luther at Wurms

FDC, with 2 stamps, including joint issue stamp from Brazil in 2017, cancel in blue

Release date: April 1, 2021


First flight – LH 226  Frankfurt to Lamethia (Italy) with airbus  A320

Frankfurt first flight cancel German stamps 2021

Commemorative cancel in blue

POSTMARK: Frankfurt en MAIN Airport

The cancel shows Airbus A320 sharklets 

Designer: Kracker, Lübeck

Release date: April 3, 2021


Costumes from Schleswig-Holstein

Costumes cancel

Commemorative cancel in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Kiel

The cancel shows two women in costume

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: April 4, 2021


60th Anniversary of Hansephil 1961-2021
Self-promotion postmark

Hansefill

POSTMARK PLACE: Rostock

Cancel  shows Club logo – magnifying glass  with  stamp  from  Rostock Town Hall

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: April 9, 2021


Start of the season of the barge delivery 2021
Self-promotion postmark

Barge post German stamps 2021

Commemorative cancel in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Lübbenau, Spreewald

The cancel shows delivery woman on a post barge

Designer: Stempel-Müller, Nuremberg

Release date: April 14, 2021

Here’s a fun video about post delivery via barge in Spreewald, Germany

 


500 years of the mountain town of Marienberg
Self-promotion postmark

Marienburg German stamps 2021

Commemorative cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Marienberg

Cancel shows City coat of arms of  Marienberg  

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

 Release date: April 27, 2027


May

New Olympic sports – baseball, softball, surfing

New Olympic sports Berlin cancelNew Olympic sports cancel 1 Bonn

New Olympic sport stamp baseball German stamps 2021New Olympic sport stamp softball German stamps 2021New Olympic sport stamp surfing German stamps 2021

New Olympic sports Tokyo 2021

3 stamps, sheets of 10, 2 cancels in blue, FDC

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin

Designer: Thomas Serres, Hattingen
Images from Shutterstock

Release date: May 6, 2021


Europa: Endangered  national  wildlife – Beetles

Endangered  national  wildlife - Beetles beetle trails German stamps 2021Endangered  national  wildlife - Beetles Endangered  national  wildlife - Beetles cancl with single beetle

Endangered  national  wildlife - Beetles stamps German stamps 2021Endangered  national  wildlife - Beetles maxi card German stamps 2021

  • Mycetoma suturale
  • Ceruchus  chrysomelinus
  • Tragosoma  Depsarium

1 stamp, 2 cancels in blue, Self-promotion cancel in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin, Wurzburg
Wurzburg cancel on Maxi card Self-promotion postmark

Designer: Thomas Serres, Hattingen
Photos: Bavarian Forest National Park Administration

Release date: May 6, 2021


100th Birthday Sophie Scholl (May 9, 1921 – February 22, 1943)
Anti-Nazi activist, member of White Rose

100th Birthday Sophie Scholl cancel 2 German stamps 2021100th Birthday Sophie Scholl cancelSophie cancel German stamps 2021

100th Birthday Sophie Scholl stamp German stamps 2021Sophie FDC German stamps 2021

1 stamp, FDC, 3 cancels in blue
3rd cancel  (Self-promotion postmark) with the rose is on the FDC

Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?
Sophie’s last words before execution by Nazi authorities

“The White Rose Leaflets” Revolt & Resistance www.HolocaustResearchProject.org
BIOGRAPHY: Sophie Scholl – Non-violent Resistance under Nazi dictatorship – The Heroine Collective

Designer: Detlef Behr, Cologne

Release date: May 6, 2021


Games of the 1st 1896 Olympics
April 6 -15

1896 olympics

POSTMARK PLACE: Leverkusen

Designer: Mix , Berlin

Release date: May 6, 2021


U-Bahn lines series
Ubersee Quarter Hamburg

U-Bahn lines series cancel German stamps 2021

U-Bahn lines series stamps German stamps 2021

1 stamp, sheet of 10, 1 cancel in blue

Designer: Jennifer Dengler, Bonn

Release date: May 6, 2021


150th Birthday Christian Morgenstern
Writer, poet and translator  (May 6, 1871 – March 31, 1914)

Christian Morgenstern cancel German stamps 2021

Christian Morgenstern FDC

FDC, cancel in blue

Release date: May 6, 2021


60 YEARS OF FERRY CONNECTION / OSLO – KIEL
Self-promotion cancel

Kiel ferry

Commemorative cancel in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Kiel

Cancel shows Ferry MS Color Magic, owned by Norway-based shipping company Color Line 

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: May 4, 2021


50 Years of Radio Telescope Effelsberg

Radio Telescope Effelsberg

Commemorative cancel in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Bad Münstereifel 

Cancel shows a radio telescope
Organised by Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Radio Telescope Effelsberg | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (mpg.de)

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: May 12, 2021


Northwest German Collectors’ Exchange  – Historical Postal Routes
Self-promotion cancel

Northwest German Collectors' Exchange  - Historical Postal Routes

Commemorative cancel in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Hesel 

Cancel shows Coat of arms of Hesel,  Historical  stagecoach

Designer: Mix, Berlin

Release date: May 17, 2021


200TH BIRTHDAY Sebastian Anton Kneipp
Self-promotion cancel

German stamps 2021 KneippKneippe 2 German stamps 2021

Kneippe FDC German stamps 2021

FDC, 2 cancels in blue
Uses April 1, 2021 stamp

POSTMARK PLACE: Bad Wörishofen
First postmark reads: DEUTSCHE POST / EXPERIENCE: STAMPS / 200TH BIRTHDAY /
Sebastian Anton / KNEIPP / * 1821 † 1897 / Don’t forget my soul! “
Second postmark Reads: Water • Exercise  •  Nutrition  • Medicinal Plants  • Order of Life / 200. Birthday  / Sebastian Kneipp / 1821 – 1897 

FDC & first cancel designer: Wittmann, Schwabach
Second cancel designer: Fa. Mischen, Berlin

Release date: May 17, 2021


550th Birthday for Albrecht Dürer
Self-promotion cancel

Durer cancel German stamps 2021Durer cancel German stamps 2021

2 Commemorative cancels in blue

POSTMARK PLACE: Nürnberg

Cancel shows Albrecht Dürer self-portraits. 

Designer: Mix, Berlin and Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: May 21, 2021


June German stamps 2021

Sailing training ship GORCH FOCK
Self-promotion cancel

GORCH FOCK sailing ship cancel

1 cancel

The Gorch Fock is a 3 mast barque German Navy training ship. 

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: June 8, 2021


Neuhardenberg
Self promotion cancel

Neuhardenberg German stamps 2021

History week in Neuhardenberg

POSTMARK PLACE: Neuhardenberg

Designer: Fa. Mischen, Berlin

Release date: June 9, 2021


India – Germany 70 years of diplomatic relations

India - Germany 70 years of diplomatic relations cancel two India - Germany 70 years of diplomatic relations cancel one German stamps 2021

India - Germany 70 years of diplomatic relations German stamps 2021 

2 stamp, sheet of 10, 2 cancels

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin

Information coming on the FDCs and info pack.

Designer: Matthias Wittig, Berlin

Release date: June 10, 2021


100th birthday of Joseph Beuy (1921-1986)

100th birthday of Joseph Beuy (1921-1986)  100th birthday of Joseph Beuy (1921-1986) German stamps 2021100th birthday of Joseph Beuy

100th birthday of Joseph Beuy stamp German stamps 2021

1 stamp, sheet of 10, 3 cancels
3rd cancel  (Self-promotion postmark) shows Beuy in a hat

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin, Krefeld

The National Gallery of Canada has a good write up on Beuy. Start with their Joseph Beuys | National Gallery of Canada page and then check out the post for their 2016 magazine article Beuys: Unwrapping the Enigma | National Gallery of Canada. It offers a bit of insite into the artwork and man. 

Drawings by Joseph Beuy. From his 1974 book “Joseph Beuys:  Drawings  1947-59 I. Gespräch  zwischen  Joseph Beuys und Hagen Lieberknecht”.
Designer: Professor Frank Philippin, Brighten the Corners, Aschaffenburg 
Self-promotion cancel designer: Fa. Mischen, Berlin

Release date: June 10, 2021


Alpine Steinebocke  & Field hamster
Young wild animals series

Steinbock cancel Field hamster German stamps 2021 

Steinbock stamp German stamps 2021 Field hamster German stamps 2021

2 stamps, 3 cancels, maxicard
3rd cancel  (Self-promotion postmark) 

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin, Recklinghausen

Designer: Jennifer Dengler, Bonn 
Steinbock with photo by © Hanjo Hellmann/shutterstock.com
Field Hamster with 
using photo by © Achim Schumacher/ www.as-naturfotografie.de
Special cancel & maxi designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: June 10, 2021

European Football Championships

   European Football Championships   European Football Championships German stamps 2021Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2020

European Football Championships German stamps 2021 

football maxicard

1 stamp, sheet of 10, 3 cancels, maxi card 
3rd cancel  (Self-promotion postmark) football in net

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin, Munich

Issued to coincide with the European Men’s Football Championship. The final rounds play June 11 to July 11, 2021. The playoffs were postponed last year because of Covid.

Designer: Thomas Serres, Hattingen using the typographic illustrations by © Alexandr Bognat – stock.adobe.comb
Maxicard & self-promotion cancel designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date:  June 10, 2021


700 years of Bochum

700 years of Bochum  Bochum cancel two German stamps 2021

700 years of Bochum German stamps 2021

FDC, 2 cancels

Bochum, a city in the  central  Ruhr area, was first mentioned in 890. It received it’s town rights in 1321.

POSTMARK PLACE: Bochum

Designer: DPS Wermsdorf
Second cancel designed by Fa. Mischen, Berlin released date June 8, 2021

Release date:  June 10, 2021


Barmstedt & Chief inspector “Finke”
Self-promotion postmark

Barmstedt & Chief inspector "Finke" 

Barmstedt & Chief inspector "Finke" FDC

1 cancel, FDC

POSTMARK PLACE: Barmstedt

Celebrating the German tv series Hauptkommissar Finke staring Klaus Schwarzkopf

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: June 13, 2021


July 

Celestial events – Thunderstorms & Super Cells 

Thunderstorms & Super Cells Thunderstorms & Super Cells 

Thunderstorms & Super Cells Thunderstorms & Super Cells

Thunderstorms & Super Cells

2 stamps, 2 cancels, packets of 10

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin,

Thunderstorms & supercells

Designer: Bettina Walter, Bonn
Photographers: Thundercloud with rainbow © Marco Vogelsberg, Hurlach
Storm with rotating wind vortex inside the cloud © Derek Stratman

Release date: July 1, 2021


Tinsdale Lighthouse
Lighthouse series

Tinsdale Lighthouse Lighthouse series cancel showing boat wheel Tinsdale Lighthouse Lighthouse series cancel showing seagulls flying Tinsdale self promotion cancel for Maxicard

Tinsdale Lighthouse Lighthouse series single stamp showing lighthouse  

Tinsdale maxi card

1 stamp, 3 cancels, maxicard
3rd cancel & maxicard are self-promotion issues

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin, Hamburg

You can find the lighthouse at these coordinates: 53°33.57.6′  north latitude and 9°44.24.4′  east longitude. Have fun with the hunt.

Designer: Team Rogger,  Biberach

Release date: July 1, 2021


100 years AVUS

100 years AVUS 100 years AVUS 

100 years AVUS

1 stamp, 2 cancels

AVUS – Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße  (Automobile traffic and training road)

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn, Berlin,

Designer: Thomas Steinacker, Bonn
Photos used in design: AVUS race in Berlin 1958 
Zielfahne: © StarLine/shutterstock.com
Race car: © GPL-Fred Taylor/Alamy  Stock Photo

Release date: July 1, 2021


150th Birthday Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)

150th Birthday Lyonel Feininger

150th Birthday Lyonel Feininger

1 FDC, cancel

This short video explains Feininger’s influence and works.

POSTMARK PLACE: Bonn 

Release date: July 1, 2021


Start of the Kiel cruise season 
Self-promotion postmark

Start of  the  keel cruise season

POSTMARK PLACE: Kiel

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: July 8, 2021


150th birthday  of Friedrich  Ebert – Heidelberg 

150th birthday  of Friedrich  Ebert - Heidelberg 

Special cancel

This cancel design was changed from the original. 

POSTMARK PLACE: Heidelberg

Release date: July 8, 2021


Munich Philately Exchange Day

Munich Philately Exchange Day 

Special cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Munich

Release date: July 11, 2021


Bibelungen Festival / Luther
Self-promotion postmark

Bibelungen Festival / Luther

POSTMARK PLACE: Worms

Image: Shadow of  Luther  with  X  

Designer: Deutsche Post  AG
Artist: Wittmann,  Schwabach

Release date: July 16, 2021


150th birthday Lyonel Feininger

150th birthday Lyonel Feininger

Special cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: DESSAU-ROSSLAU  

Release date: July 17, 2021


Opening of the games of XXXII Olympiad 
Self-promotion postmark

Tokyo Olympics

POSTMARK PLACE: Leverkusen  

Image: Olympic Stadium Tokyo 

Artist: Stempel-Müller, Nuremberg 
Designer: Deutsche Post  AG

Release date: July 23, 2021


HOFGEISMAR 
Self-promotion postmark

Fire brigade turntable ladder truck

Fire brigade turntable ladder truck

Sponsor: 
Stamp Collectors’ Association from 1932  Hofgeismar 
Ulrich Reinhardt
P.O. Box 12 64
34362 Hofgeismar

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: July 23, 2021


Tolerance Day on Service and Dispatch Center Graze
Self-promotion postmark

Tolerance

Image: Weiden Logo

Artist: Wittmann, Schwabach  
Designer: Deutsche Post  AG

Release date: July 23, 2021 


Lighthouse Day in Behrensdor
Self-promotion postmark

Lighthouse special cancel

POSTMARK PLACE: Behrensdorf

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: July 27, 2021


August 

ARGE Literatur/Theater/Märchen
Self-promotion postmark

ARGE Literatur/Theater/Märchen

Max and Moritz book title page, First edition in the USA from 1871

Sponsor: 
Peter Würfel 
Am Berler Kamp 146 
48167 Münster, Germany

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Aug. 1, 2021


30th Hanse Sail Rostock 05 – 08 August
Self-promotion postmark

30th Hanse Sail Rostock 05 - 08 August 

Hanse boat

Sponsor:
Rostock &  Warnemünde Tourist Office
Hanse Sail Office
Warnowufer 65
18057 Rostock, Germany

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Aug. 5 – 8, 2021


500 years of the Fugger Homes in Augsburg

Fuggerei homes cancel 2 Fuggerei homes cancel

Fuggerei homes stamp   

500 years of the Fugger Homes in Augsburg FDC with tree stamps

1 stamp, FDC, 2 cancels

Designer: Prof. Sandra  Hoffmann  Robbiani,  Bern

Learn more about Fugger here

Release date: August 5, 2021


Radio telescope Effelsberg

Radio telescope Effelsberg packet cancel

Radio telescope Effelsberg packet

pack of 10, cancel

Designer: Thomas  Steinacker,  Bonn

Release date: August 5, 2021


Hermann von Helmholtz – 200th Birthday
physiologist  and  physicist  Hermann  von  Helmholtz  (1821–1894

Hermann von Helmholtz - 200th Birthday cancel

Hermann von Helmholtz - 200th Birthday envelope

Graphic stamped envelope, cancel

Part of Celestial Events series. See the Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds  (80  Cent,  2020)

Designer: DPS  Wermsdorf

Release date: August 5, 2021


Day of the Young Stamp Friends Hamburg
Self-promotion postmark

Massey Ferguson tractor on a cancel

Massey Ferguson Tractor

Sponsor: 
Young stamp friends Bergedorf c/o Peter von Essen 
Neuengammer  Hausdeich  43 
21039 Hamburg, Germany

Designer: Mischen, Berlin

Release date: Aug. 8, 2021


Tractors “For the Youth”
Historic vehicle series

Tractors  Historic vehicle series cancel showing wheat sheaves  Tractors  Historic vehicle series cancel showing log pile  Tractor special cancel

Porsche Diesel Master 1958 Bergmann Gaggenau 1906 Lanz HP articulated handlebar 1923 

Tractors sheet  

Tractors "For the Youth" FDC with 3 stamps & an old red tractor on cover

Jennifer  Dengler,  Bonn tractor info set  

Tractors "For the Youth" book of tractors

3 stamps, FDC, 3 cancels, souvenir sheet, info pack, book

Designers: Jennifer  Dengler,  Bonn, Nadine Nill  (tchin  tchin),  Mössingen using  original illustrations of:

  • Porsche Diesel Master 1958
  • Bergmann Gaggenau 1906
  • Lanz HP articulated handlebar 1923 

Tractors of Germany is a 224 page book with 500 images. Writer Joachim M. Köstnick  authored numerous books about German made vehicles including the 2012 book Tractors Made in Germany, 2013 German Sports Cars

Release date: August 14, 2021 


750 Years Bramfeld 
Self-promotion postmark

Bramfeld 750 anniversary cancel

Note: Original cancel was issue with the incorrect zip code for Hamburg. 

Release date: August 15, 2021


Anniversary of the Verein für Briefmarkenkunde
Self-promotion postmark

Vereinsjubiläum des Vereins für Briefmarkenkunde

Historical postmark with the founding date of the association, coat of arms of the city of Stade

Sponsor:
Verein für Briefmarkenkunde Stade und Umgegend e.V.
Gerhard Briem
Flachsröppen 9
21682 Stadium

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: August 21, 2021


500th anniversary of the Fuggerei in Augsburg
Self-promotion postmark

500th anniversary of the Fuggerei in Augsburg

Shows image of founder Jakob Fugger

Sponsor: 
Princely and Countess Fugger Foundation
Fuggerei 56
86152 Augsburg

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: August 28, 2021


September stamps 

Capricorn
Young animals series 

Young animals Ibex cancel 

Young animals - ibex sheet 

sheet of 10 adhesive stamps, cancel

Designer: Jennifer Dengler

Release date: Sept. 2, 2021


Westend Frankfurt
Part of the U-Bahn series

Westend Frankfurt ubahn cancel 

Westend Frankfurt ubahn

sheet of 10 self adhesives, cancel 

Designer: Jennifer Dengler

Release date: Sept. 2, 2021


Stamp Day – Treasures of Philately – Bordeaux Letter

Stamp Day - Mauritius Letter cancel Stamp Day - Mauritius Letter cancel Mauritius cancel special

Stamp Day - Mauritius Letter

 Maritius stamp block

1 stamp, sheet, 2 cancels, special cancel

The so-called Bordeaux letter was abandoned on 4 October 1847 by the wine merchant Edward Francis in Port Louis, who

Capital of the then British colony Mauritius, and was addressed to the trading partner Ducan & Lurguie in Bordeaux, France. Because the red 1-penny stamp was intended for domestic mail and the blue 2-pence stamp for foreign mail, it would not have been necessary to use both on the same envelope. The error may have stemmed from the fact that the island’s first stamps had not been issued until September 22. With stops in England, Boulogne and Paris, the letter reached its destination after 85 days on 28 December 1847 and diligently collected stamps on the way that bear witness to the various stations of its long journey.

For 55 years, the Bordeaux letter lay unnoticed in the archive of the wine merchant – until a schoolboy made the discovery of his life in 1902 while rummaging through the dusty correspondence. The following year he sold it for 40,000 francs. Since then, the letter has changed hands several times – especially later during spectacular auctions – and in 1993 finally brought in the record sum of over 6 million Swiss francs, which corresponds to a current value of around 5.5 million euros. Even today, the Bordeaux letter is one of the most valuable philatelic objects in the world because of its legendary stamps, the diverse stamping and the good preservation. From the Stempel und Information Newsletter #17

Designer: Carsten Wolff, Frankfurt am Main

Release date: Sept. 9, 2021


Apparent Movement
Optical Illusions Series

Optical illusions cancel one Optical illusions cancel two

Optical Ilusions Germany 2021

1 stamp, 2 cancels

Designer: Thomas Steinacker, Bonn

Release date: Sept. 9, 2021


150th birthday Hildegard Wegscheider

150th birthday Hildegard Wegscheider cncel two 150th birthday Hildegard Wegscheider cancel one

150th birthday Hildegard Wegscheider

1 stamp, 2 cancels

Photo: © ullstein bild
Designer: Prof. Iris Utikal  and Prof. Michael Gais, Cologne

Release date: Sept. 9, 2021


Federal Training Assistance Act – BAföG

Bafog cancel one Bafog cancel two 

BAFOG stamp

1 stamp, 2 cancels

Designer: Nicole Elsenbach, Hückeswagen

Release date: Sept. 9, 2021


TelefonSeelsorge® – telephone pastoral care

TelefonSeelsorge cancel one TelefonSeelsorge cancel two

TelefonSeelsorge stamp

1 stamp, 2 cancels

Designer: Elisabeth Hau, Nuremberg

Release date: Sept. 9, 2021


Polar Zone 
“Climate Zones of the Earth” series
Self-promotion postmark

Polar Zone 

Sponsor: 
German Post  AG  –  Headquarters

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Sept. 9, 2021


Multilateral exhibition and ÖVEBRIA  in St. Pölten, Austria
Self-promotion postmark
Multilateral postmark

Sponsor: 
VÖPh
Getreidemarkt 1
1060 Wien, Österreich

Designer: Wittmann, Schwabach

Release date: Sept. 24, 2021


October

Butterflies?
Series: Optical Illusions

Illusion of a butterfly box painted on a house façade

Illusion of a butterfly box painted on a house façade 

1 stamp, sheet of 10

Designer: Thomas Steinacker
Photo: © MANTRA productions

Release date: October 7, 2021


Drops and rings
Series: Street Art

Drops and rings Series: Street Art  

Drops and rings Series: Street Art sheet 

1 stamp, sheet of 10

Designer: Bettina Walter 
High-rise building with the work
“Drops and Rings” © 1010, Photo: Benjamin Pritzkuleit

Release date: October 7, 2021


Dangers of climate change / Forest is climate protection

Dangers of climate change / Forest is climate protection 

Dangers of climate change / Forest is climate protection

Designer: Constanze Hein

Release date: October 7, 2021


 

Fabulous Germany – Die Heinzelmännchen & Die Nibelungen

Die Heinzelmännchen Die Nibelungen 

Tailors wife and brownies Germany October Die Niblungen 

2 stamps, 2 sheets of 10

Die Heinzelmännchen translates roughly to house brownies or house gnomes depending on the translation you are using. 

Die Nibelungen is an epic poem written around 1200 AD. If you’d like to read a bit more about the tale try Nibelungenlied | German epic poem | Britannica

  • The tailor’s wife disturbs the Heinzelmännchen in their work
  • Siegfried fights against the dragon

Designer: Thomas Steinacker

Release date: October 7, 2021


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