Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1989 - 10 Pfennig

Important personalities The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five multicolored special postage stamps with illustrations of important personalities. Special cancellation from 28th February to 27th April 1989 Johann Beckmann Johann Beckmann (born on June 4, 1739 in Hoya / Lower Saxony, died February 3, 1811 in Göttingen) is regarded as the founder of technology as an independent science. The special postal stamp shows the portrait of Beckmann and the title page of his main work. Even while studying physics, mathematics and natural science in Göttingen, he dealt in detail with the history of production, with technology and inventions. The results of extensive study trips to several European countries fertilized his scientific work on manufactories, crafts and agriculture. Beckmann, a professor at the University of Göttingen since 1766, exemplified the unity of research, teaching and practice, which was indispensable for high-quality student education and scientific and technical progress. In doing so, he drew on progressive traditions of German science, which Leibnitz a. a. Scholars were influenced and basic ideas of English materialism and the French Enlightenment. In his 1777 published "Guide to technology or to the knowledge of crafts, factories and factories. , . "He developed basic statements that z. T. still have today. Systematizing and comparing, he traced the diversity of work processes, tools and materials back to similar or similar basic forms: "Technology is the science that teaches the processing of natural phenomena or the knowledge of crafts. Rather than merely showing in the workshops how to follow the rules and habits of the master for the manufacture of goods, technology systematically provides thorough guidance on how to find the means and the means to do so for true endeavor and true experience explain and use phenomena occurring during processing ". He emphatically advocated the transition from feudal, mercenary to industrial capitalist production. He called on mathematicians and scientists to contribute to the development of production processes and their scientific justification. In his "Draft of General Technology" (1806) he pointed out that "crafts were not astonishingly improved both by completely new inventions and by transferring the means from one craft to another". Beckmann's lasting contributions to the development of the technology were recognized during his lifetime at home and abroad. His work gave lasting impetus to research, teaching and production practice.