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MICHEL P174 / 10
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
5 Rpf
Issued 1927 and the only series of pre-'Lernt Deutschland Kennen!' to feature a Friedrich von Schiller stamp. This is the last of 10 different postcards all with an artist's, hand-drawn image on the left pane, and a 5 Rpf Schiller stamp on the right.
The text below the image reads "Zwickau (Sachsen) Ingenieurschule"
'Zwickau (Saxony) engineering school'
Zwickau is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde, and lies in a string of cities sitting in the densely populated foreland of the Elster and Ore Mountains stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. From 1834 until 1952, Zwickau was the seat of the government of the south-western region of Saxony.
The engineering school was founded in 1897 to train technical specialists in the local mechanical engineering industry. Not far from the King Albert Museum, which opened years later, a new building was built for the school in 1902/03 based on plans by the Zwickau architect Paul Dreßler. The east wing was added in 1907.
Paul Kirchhoff and Leander Hummel founded the “Higher Technical School for Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering with preliminary classes” as a private school. After the First World War it was sold to the trade school association. Supervision was carried out by a school board, whose honorary members also included the wholesale businessman Simon Schocken. At times, the commercial school, a locomotive trainee school, the mining school, the brickworker school, a materials testing institute and a chemical laboratory were also united under the umbrella of the “United Technical Schools”.
POSTALLY UNUSED
POSTALLY USED
1. The following postcard is an example of a domestic Airmail usage sent from GERA to MANNHEIM on 18th Jun 1927. In addition to the circular GERA and MANNHEIM FLUGHAFEN cancels this card also has a red three line rubber confirmation stamp inscribed "Mit Luftpost befördert | Flugpostamt | Postamt 2 Mannheim". This example was correctly franked with 5 Rpf for the regular postage and an additional 10 Rpf to cover the airmail fee.
POSTALLY USED
2. The following postcard is an example of a domestic Airmail usage sent from FREIBURG to PFORZHEIM on 2nd Jun 1927. In addition to the circular FREIBURG FLUGHAFEN cancels this card also has a red two line rubber confirmation stamp inscribed "Mit Luftpost befördert | Postamt Nr. 1 Stuttgart". This example was correctly franked with 5 Rpf for the regular postage and an additional 10 Rpf to cover the airmail fee.
These pages were compiled from several sources including, but not limited to:
1. Handbuch und Katalog Die Bildpostkarten des Deutschen Reiches. Böhmen und Mährens sowie der Freien Stadt Danzig. Michael Bockisch. ISBN: 978-3-00-104108-4
2. The 'MICHEL Ganzsachen Deutschland 2018 ISBN: 978-3-95-410225-0
3. More information on the Engineering School can be found at Stadt Zwickau
