Postage stamp: Women of German History - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1988 - 170 Pfennig

With »Women of German History« the Deutsche Bundespost replaces the series »Industry and Technology« begun in 1975/76. The new series is intended to help raise awareness of women's achievements in society. Up to the 60 Pf value (Dorothea Erxleben) - it now appears in the issue »Deutsche Bundespost Berlin« - the other postage stamps are issued on the same day in the issues »Deutsche Bundespost« and »Deutsche Bundespost Berlin«. Hannah Arendt was born on October 14, 1906. Her parents came from Konigsberg, where her grandparents, retired Jews, emigrated from Russia and Lithuania. In advanced education, she grew up and made in 1924 as an external high school graduation. Inspired by the reading of Kant, Kierkegaard, Jaspers and Guardini, she studied philosophy, theology and Greek in Heidegger, Husserl and Jaspers, where she earned her doctorate in 1928 on Augustine. In 1929 she marries the journalist Günther Stern (also G. Anders), goes with him to Berlin and begins a work on "Rahel Varnhagen, life story of a German Jewess from the Romantic period". She is arrested in 1933 but is able to flee to Paris with Czech help. Here she is committed to the refugee and emigration aid of young people to Palestine. In 1940 she is imprisoned again in the south of France; A Jewish organization in America, however, together with her second husband, the journalist Heinrich Blücher, allowed her to leave for New York in 1941. In the United States, Hannah Arendt immediately intervenes actively in cultural and political affairs as well as in social and racial politics, be it America or Europe. Starting in 1953, she turned primarily to academic teaching with honorable offers from American universities and the Aberdeen / Scotland. Now an American citizen, she receives numerous awards in the form of doctorate degrees, two prizes in Germany and one in Denmark for her services to European culture. In addition to three questions still in the current discussion, Hannah Arendt has taken a committed position in numerous lectures and publications: on Judaism, the individual and society; on political thinking, domination, totalitarianism; and active life, living spirit. Hannah Arendt died of heart failure on 4 December 1975.