German Philately

MISCELLANEOUS POSTCARDS
(1943)

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MISCELLANEOUS POSTCARDS CANCELED 1943

10th ANNIVERSARY of ASSUMPTION to POWER
(30th Jan 1943)

This plain postcard features the commemorative postage stamp Michel 829 that ws issued to mark the 10th anniversary of the Nazi Party's assumptoin to power (Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on 30th Jan 1933). In addition to the postage stamp this card also has the special handstamp used in MUNICH that also commemorates the event.

PETER ROSIGGER

This postcard is a bit of an oddity. It was originally favour cancelled with the special KRIEGLACH cancel used in 1943 to commemorate the 100th birthday of Peter Rosigger. It was then re-used in Austria on 12th Jul 1947.

HAUS der DEUTSCHEN KUNST
HOUSE of GERMAN ART

This is one of a very large series of postcards commemorating the House of German Art in MUNICH. This example shows an image of a painting by Hans Adolf Buhler entitled "Home Coming". The postage stamp is a 1941 issue Michel 785 and there is also a special handstamp used in RAVENSBURG and dated 12th May 1943.

COMMERCIAL POSTCARD
POSEN
(6th Dec 1943)

COMMERCIAL POSTCARD
OSLO - NORWAY

The following three commercial postcards were sent to the firm of Fred Olsen and Co., in OSLO, occupied NORWAY.

1. This first card has a meter cancel commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Sauber Gebr a Hamburg based shipping and coal company founded on 6th Jul 1839, by brothers Johann and Carl Sauber. The company owned and operated four steamers at the beginning of the war: Emma Sauber, Robert Sauber, Herman Sauber and Emily Sauber, all of which survived the war, but were confiscated by the Allies in 1945. As heating oil replaced coal, the company's fortunes declined, and it finally went bankrupt in the early 1960's.

2. Another shipping company celebrating its 100th Anniversary in 1939 was Zerrsen & CO., and the following card bears the special meter cancel used to comemorate the event. The company was founded by Christian von Zerssen and Johann Paap in Rendsburg on the Eider Canal.