GERMAN POSTAL HISTORY

This page was last updated
23-Mar-2025 01:00

FELDPOST - FIELD POST
"Soldatenblätter für feier und Freizeit"
"Soldier's sheets for celebrations and leisure"

In April 1940 a series of booklets titled "Soldatenblätter für feier und Freizeit" - "Soldier's sheets for celebrations and leisure" was published by the OKW (OberKommando der Wehrmacht), or Wehrmacht High Command. The booklets were printed every month from Apr 1940 until Nov/Dec 1944.

1940: 9 Issues, one per month, from April to Dec
1941: 11 issues, one per month, from Jan to Nov/Dec (the last issue of the year was a double issue)
1942: 11 Issues, one per month now catalogued as heft 1, heft 2, heft 3, ... heft 11/12.
1943: 11 issues, one per month catalogued as heft 1, heft 2, heft 3, ... heft 11/12.
1944: 11 issues, one per month catalogued as heft 1, heft 2, heft 3, ... heft 11/12.

The cards can be sorted by the number of lines of publisher's text running aloong the vertical dividing line.

Type A: One line of text
Type B: Two lines of text
Type C: No text along the vertical divider.

1942 Postcards

The 1942 issue was the third series of magazines and it consisted of 11 magazines (the November / December issue being a double issue) with a total of 36 postcards. The numbering scheme changed from the previous Jan, Feb, Mar etc, to Heft 1, Heft 2, Heft 3 etc, upto the final issue of the year which was Heft 11/12.

HEFT 1 (January)

The first issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured two postcards

1. ARTIST: Jul. Nordmann.
TYPE: B.
DESCRIPTION: Pioneers building bridges
VERIFIED: Yes [Magazine in my collection]

2. ARTIST: Jul. Nordmann.
TYPE: B.
DESCRIPTION: Pioneers building roads
VERIFIED: Yes [Magazine in my collection]

HEFT 2 (February)

The second issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured two postcards

1. ARTIST: Fritz Brauner. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Shot-out tank in front of village
2. ARTIST: Fritz Brauner. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Airplane over Russian village

HEFT 3 (March)

The third issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards

1. ARTIST: Wolf Strobel. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Submarine with mother ship [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
2. ARTIST: Wolf Strobel TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Submarine at sea [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]




3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: "Geleitzug" - "Convoy" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kieβling TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Plowing farmer" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]

HEFT 4 (April)

The fourth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards

1. ARTIST: Max Zschoch. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: "Frühlingserwachen" - "Spring awakening" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
2. ARTIST: Heinz Kieβling. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Sowing farmer”. [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]




3. ARTIST: Hans O. Wendt. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Air raid on London [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
4. ARTIST: Hans O. Wendt. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Air raid on warships [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]

HEFT 5 (May)

The fifth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards

1. ARTIST: A. Werner. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: "Missed" (football humor) [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
2. ARTIST: A. Werner. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: "The "bomb" shot" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]




3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "The big Egg" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kieβling. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Spring awakening" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]

HEFT 6 - (June)

The sixth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards

1. ARTIST: W. M. Busch (PK). TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Horse patrol [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
2. ARTIST: Rudolf G. Werner TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Advance over temporary bridge [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]




3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Love letters" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kieβling. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Village, man with guitar" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]

HEFT 7 (July)

The seventh issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards

1. ARTIST: Gefr. Hans Magg. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: At the company "beautification council" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
2. ARTIST: Gefr. Hans Magg. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: "SELTSAME SUPPENEINLAGE" - "STRANGE SOUP INSERTION" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]




3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Front theater" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kieβling. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "House/naked woman" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]

HEFT 8 (August)

The eighth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards

1. ARTIST: F. Sauer. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Shot-up Russian town [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
2. ARTIST: F. Sauer. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Shot-up village with tank [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]




3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "The stork" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
4. ARTIST: UHeinz Kieβling. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Farmer mowing" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]

HEFT 9 (September)

The ninth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards

1. ARTIST: OGefr. H. Karl. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Russian advance road [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
2. ARTIST: OGefr. H. Karl. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Tank attack [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]




3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "The field post" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kieβling. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Farmer's festival" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]

HEFT 10 (October)

The tenth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards

1. ARTIST: Herbert Kreiβig. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: "Soviet idyll" (with pig) [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
2. ARTIST: Herbert Kreiβig. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: "Soviet idyll" (farmer's parlor) [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]




3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Wave pool" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kieβling TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Farmer's festival" (like 9/42) [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]

HEFT 11 (November)

The eleventh issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured two postcards

1. ARTIST: H. v. Medvey. TYPE: A. DESCRIPTION: Fastboat



2. ARTIST: Unknown. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Cruiser

December

The twelth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards

1. ARTIST: OGefr. Fritz Brauner. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Fir tree loading into plane [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
2. ARTIST: OGefr. Fritz Brauner. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Fir tree on tank [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]




3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Special allocation" [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]
4. ARTIST: Unknown. TYPE: B. DESCRIPTION: PK Men [VERIFIED. Magazine in my collection]