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Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1987 - 10 Pfennig


Theme: Calender
CountryGermany / German Democratic Republic
Issue Date1987
Face Value 10.00 
Colorblack
PerforationK 14
Printing TypeTypography
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number2826
Chronological ChapterGER-DDR
SID832476
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Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement, Edition 1987 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four commemorative postage stamps depicting deserving personalities of the German workers' movement. No Special First Day Cover Special cancellation from March 24 to May 23, 1987 Walter Vesper He was born on June 26, 1897 in Barmen, the son of a factory worker and attended elementary school and then learned bricklayer. Since 1912 he was an active member of the workers' youth movement. From 1915 to 1918 he continued his anti-militarist work as a soldier in the First World War. Walter Vesper became a member of the Spartacist group in 1917 and was one of the co-founders of the KPD. During the November Revolution of 1918 he was a member of the Workers' and Soldiers Council in Wuppertal. He participated in the fight against the Kapp Putsch in 1920 and in the fighting of 1923 against the reaction. At that time he was a member of the subdivision of the KPD in Wuppertal. Since 1925 he was a member of the district administration Niederrhein the KPD and the union leadership of the district and belonged from 1928 to 1933 the Revolutionary Trade Union opposition. Walter Vesper was arrested in 1933 by the fascists. After his release from the concentration camp, he was a member of the illegal district leadership Berlin and participated in 1935 at the VII World Congress of the AI ​​and at the Brussels party conference of the KPD. Until 1937 he worked as an employee at the Comintern in Moscow. He fought in the ranks of the Thälmann battalion from 1937 to 1939 for the freedom of the Spanish people and belonged from 1939 to 1944 to the French resistance movement as a member of the movement "Free Germany" in France. After the liberation from fascism Walter Vesper became secretary of the KPD district administration Niederrhein and 1946 member of the KPD in the state parliament North Rhine-Westphalia. He belonged to the party executive of the KPD from 1948 to 1951 and was a member of the faction of his party in the FRG Bundestag. In 1951 he moved to the GDR and belonged to the National Council of the National Front until 1959. As Ambassador of the GDR in Hungary and in the Czechoslovak Republic, he worked in the spirit of friendship and cooperation between our countries and earned great merit. On December 17, 1978, Walter Vesper died in Berlin.

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Meritorious Personalities of the German Workers 'Movement, Edition 1987 The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four commemorative postage stamps depicting deserving personalities of the German workers' movement. No Special First Day Cover Special cancellation from March 24 to May 23, 1987 Walter Vesper He was born on June 26, 1897 in Barmen, the son of a factory worker and attended elementary school and then learned bricklayer. Since 1912 he was an active member of the workers' youth movement. From 1915 to 1918 he continued his anti-militarist work as a soldier in the First World War. Walter Vesper became a member of the Spartacist group in 1917 and was one of the co-founders of the KPD. During the November Revolution of 1918 he was a member of the Workers' and Soldiers Council in Wuppertal. He participated in the fight against the Kapp Putsch in 1920 and in the fighting of 1923 against the reaction. At that time he was a member of the subdivision of the KPD in Wuppertal. Since 1925 he was a member of the district administration Niederrhein the KPD and the union leadership of the district and belonged from 1928 to 1933 the Revolutionary Trade Union opposition. Walter Vesper was arrested in 1933 by the fascists. After his release from the concentration camp, he was a member of the illegal district leadership Berlin and participated in 1935 at the VII World Congress of the AI ​​and at the Brussels party conference of the KPD. Until 1937 he worked as an employee at the Comintern in Moscow. He fought in the ranks of the Thälmann battalion from 1937 to 1939 for the freedom of the Spanish people and belonged from 1939 to 1944 to the French resistance movement as a member of the movement "Free Germany" in France. After the liberation from fascism Walter Vesper became secretary of the KPD district administration Niederrhein and 1946 member of the KPD in the state parliament North Rhine-Westphalia. He belonged to the party executive of the KPD from 1948 to 1951 and was a member of the faction of his party in the FRG Bundestag. In 1951 he moved to the GDR and belonged to the National Council of the National Front until 1959. As Ambassador of the GDR in Hungary and in the Czechoslovak Republic, he worked in the spirit of friendship and cooperation between our countries and earned great merit. On December 17, 1978, Walter Vesper died in Berlin..