Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1980 - 35 Pfennig

Important Personalities, Edition 1980 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues six special postage stamps with pictures of important personalities. No Special First Day Cover Cover Special cancellation from February 26 to April 25, 1980 35 Pfennig value: Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (June 1, 1780 to November 16, 1831) The general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz was one of the patriotically minded officers around Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, who sought an army reform and promoted the national uprising against the Napoleonic foreign rule. Since 1809 Clausewitz was assigned to the Prussian General Staff and worked as a teacher of strategy and tactics at the General War School in Berlin. In protest against the Prussian-French alliance he left in 1812 from the Prussian services and entered the Russian army. He took part in the battles at Smolensk and Borodino. He played a significant role in the realization of the Tauroggen Convention. During the War of Liberation 1813/14 he was First General Staff Officer of the Russian-German Legion and liaison officer in the headquarters Blücher. In the war of 1815 he led the general staff of a Prussian army corps. After the Second Paris Peace he was head of the General Staff at the Rhenish General Command immediately Gneisenau. From 1818 to 1830 Major General von Clausewitz headed the war school in Berlin. He then served as head of an artillery inspection and served as chief of staff in the high command of the local provinces during the Polish uprising. After his death, his main work "Vom Kriege" was published, the result of extensive military history and military-theoretical studies. His insights into war as a social phenomenon, as a continuation of politics with other, namely, violent means, were not only a culmination of nineteenth-century military theory, but also of fundamental importance to contemporary military science. On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the death, the mortal remains of Carl von Clausewitz 'were transferred from the People's Republic of Poland and buried in a grave and memorial site in his native town of Burg near Magdeburg.