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Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1981 - 10 Pfennig


Theme: Calender
CountryGermany / German Democratic Republic
Issue Date1981
Face Value 10.00 
Colorbrown
PerforationK 14
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number2334
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID123665
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Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement, Issue 1981 The Department of Postal and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four commemorative postage stamps depicting meritorious personalities of the German workers' movement. No special first-day cover envelope Special cancellation from February 24 to April 23, 1981 Walter Stoecker was born on April 9, 1891 in Cologne-Deutz, the son of an engineer. In 1908 he joined the socialist workers' youth in Cologne, to whose leading functionaries he soon belonged. In 1909 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party and actively participated in the subsequent period for the implementation of a revolutionary class politics in the party. During the First World War, he continued his anti-militarist work at the front. In 1917 he joined the USPD and soon became the leading functionary of the left wing of the party. Walter Stoecker played an outstanding role in the fact that the majority of the USPD members of the Rhineland spoke out in favor of joining the Communist International and united with the KPD. In the KPD he exercised responsible functions since December 1920 in the central office and in the central committee and stood particularly in the Rhine Ruhr area at the point of decisive political and social struggles of the working class. Walter Stoecker was one of the leading forces in the KPD, who together with Ernst Thalmann enforced a Leninist policy in the party. As a member of the Reichstag (since 1920) and chairman or secretary of the Communist Reichstag faction from 1924 to 1931, he made a significant contribution to the parliamentary policy of the KPD. From 1928 to 1933 he was chairman of the International Union of Friends of the Soviet Union. On February 28, 1933 Walter Stoecker was arrested by the Nazis and taken to the concentration camps Sonnenburg, Lichtenburg and Buchenwald. Here he was a member of the illegal communist camp leadership leader in organizing the anti-fascist struggle of the prisoners in the camp involved. Due to constant maltreatment, weakened years of imprisonment and hunger, he died on March 10, 1939 Buchenwald concentration camp.

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Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement, Issue 1981 The Department of Postal and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four commemorative postage stamps depicting meritorious personalities of the German workers' movement. No special first-day cover envelope Special cancellation from February 24 to April 23, 1981 Walter Stoecker was born on April 9, 1891 in Cologne-Deutz, the son of an engineer. In 1908 he joined the socialist workers' youth in Cologne, to whose leading functionaries he soon belonged. In 1909 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party and actively participated in the subsequent period for the implementation of a revolutionary class politics in the party. During the First World War, he continued his anti-militarist work at the front. In 1917 he joined the USPD and soon became the leading functionary of the left wing of the party. Walter Stoecker played an outstanding role in the fact that the majority of the USPD members of the Rhineland spoke out in favor of joining the Communist International and united with the KPD. In the KPD he exercised responsible functions since December 1920 in the central office and in the central committee and stood particularly in the Rhine Ruhr area at the point of decisive political and social struggles of the working class. Walter Stoecker was one of the leading forces in the KPD, who together with Ernst Thalmann enforced a Leninist policy in the party. As a member of the Reichstag (since 1920) and chairman or secretary of the Communist Reichstag faction from 1924 to 1931, he made a significant contribution to the parliamentary policy of the KPD. From 1928 to 1933 he was chairman of the International Union of Friends of the Soviet Union. On February 28, 1933 Walter Stoecker was arrested by the Nazis and taken to the concentration camps Sonnenburg, Lichtenburg and Buchenwald. Here he was a member of the illegal communist camp leadership leader in organizing the anti-fascist struggle of the prisoners in the camp involved. Due to constant maltreatment, weakened years of imprisonment and hunger, he died on March 10, 1939 Buchenwald concentration camp..