1953, DDR Dance group The Five-year Plan, 30 Pfennig (with cancillation 20.5.56) Buchdruck

DDR Dance group The Five-year Plan, 30 Pfennig, Buchdruck 1953

This is one of the rare stamps from DDR Dance group The Five-year Plan, 

DDR Dance group The Five-year Plan, 30 Pfennig, Buchdruck 1953

1. Motiv: DDR Dance group The Five-year Plan, 30 Pfennig, Buchdruck 1953
2. Year: 1953
3. Text: DDR Dance group The Five-year Plan, 30 Pfennig, Buchdruck 1953 
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Five-Year Plan is the name of a definitive stamp series , which by the postal administration of the German Democratic Republic was issued in the years 1953 to 1959. The occasion was the first economic five-year plan of the GDR.

The stamp with the value of a penny was hard labor in the mines. Will be followed by the cooperation of workers, farmers and engineers,working women , success of the GDR in the economy, but also the rest of the working people. The highest value of 84 pfennig presented a family with peace dove in front of the tower at the Weberwiese near the Stalin Allee is in Berlin (a similar idea had the never-issued 200-mark note the GDR, here was the dove of peace, the watermark). This partly propagandistic representations were on the order of work, learning, recreation, harvest the gains the goal of a peaceful life.

The stamps have been drawn from the graphic artist Erich Gruner. The engraver was Karl Wolf . ^[1]

These brands were partially valid until 31 December 1962. There were a total of 18 different motifs: the Michel stamp catalog 62 different editions in different versions

History 

The first issue was the 10th August 1953, less than two months after the popular uprising on 17 June . Seventeen subjects appeared in offset printing , missing the mark to 24 cents. The originally planned letterpress was due to production bottlenecks only from 21 November 1953 are published. The stamps in the offset printing differ from the book printed output by an optically inferior quality; instead of dotted background was white or shaded, blurred the images. The easiest distinguishing feature is that the brands in offset printing without the names of designers and engravers have appeared at the bottom mark the edge, while the letterpress editions (Michel numbers 405, 406, 408, 409, 411, 413-416 and 418-422) names with E.Gruner (left) and K.Wolf were provided (right).

The carriage of a standard letter in domestic cost was 24 cents. This brand has been in offset printing but only on 21 Issued November 1953, three months later than the other brands. Originally, Walter Ulbricht be represented; this was about the time the deputy chairman in the Council of Ministers of the GDR in 1953 and first secretary of the SED . Although integrating real certain political direction in the GDR, he had officially after President Wilhelm Pieck and Prime Minister Grotewohl only third place according to the constitution, a stamp with his portrait appeared in 1961. However, on 15 April 1953 on the cover of the trade journal for philately and other collections of the GDR, the collector Express imaged, a draft of this stamp. ^[3] .'s issued stamps series, there were no references to the SED as the leading party or politically active people

As a substitute for the proposed integrating the brand motif Stalinallee was elected. This prestigious boulevard in East Berlin was designed after the end of World War II completely new and was suitable as an example of success of a five-year plan. In the course ofde-Stalinization this road was on 13 November 1961 in Karl-Marx-Allee renamed, the last stamp with this design was withdrawn three days later by the box office sales, but it was valid until 31 May 1962.

By a reduction of postage stamps, many of these were from 1 October 1954 no longer needed. Eight subjects of book printing were printed with a new value. A few sheets of 24-cent mark in offset printing were also provided with an accidental overpressure. Of which about 600 individual brands have survived these are among the most sought-after stamps of the GDR. Of these eight subjects, the six highest values ​​were from 22 Issued in January 1955 with the new now valid postage.

Nine stamps (Michel numbers 406, 415-416 and 453-458) were printed in January 1957 with a changed watermark.

The last update of this definitive stamp series was from July 1959, it was the 10-pfennig stamp with the same theme as the 1953rd In this issue of notice was missing on the artist and the engraver at the lower stamp edge.