EIGHTEEN GERMAN GERMANY SWASTIKA STAMPS ON PAYMENT VALIDATION CARD 1942 An interesting item from the era of the Hitler Reich. Eighteen Stamps showing the Swastika on what is a Payment Validation Card. I can tell little more than this and not sure that these are in fact Postage Stamps.Payment Card and Stamps in Good Condition as can be seen from scans. There is FREE SHIPPING on this item. Any information on this card or the stamps most welcome! http://www.my-little-auctions.com/a...AYMENT-VALIDATION-CARD-1942&auction_id=108834
No,this are no postage stamps. It is a card of the obligatory pension insurance. For each week you had to buy a stamp and paste it on the card.The value of the stamps was proportional to your income.In 1942 that was 5.5%. The colours of the stamps were different every year and also the designs were changed frequently. At the end of the year you gave your card to the pension fund office and received a receipt. The obligatory pension insurance was the last obligatory insurance introduced by Bismarck,the founding father of the Deutsches Reich. In 1883 the health-insurance was introduced, followed by the (working) accident insurance in 1884.Finally the pension insurance was established in 1891.It was obligatory for all employed people. The system of these three insurances survived two World-Wars in is still in place today. However the cards and stamps were discontinued a few years after the second war.
Interesting indeed, just out of curiosity I wonder if there are any postage stamps out there from that time, not that I would want that in my collection but did they make stamps with Hitler on it?
Hello Tasha, There are many German stamps from that era, I have about 500 in my collection. This is a Swastika from the 1934 series. And this is I think is the first stamp with an image of Hitler. 1937 Issue for Hitlers 48th birthday. Regards, James.
Oh thank you James, wow didn't think that they would have any but I suppose why wouldn't they, Hitler had taken over and he probably demanded his face on everything.
James is right: the above shown stamp was the first with the image of Hitler.It was issued only in a souvenir sheet of four stamps.Another three similar souvenir sheets were issued in 1937.The latest of them had the stamps overprinted for the Reichs-parteitag (Nazi-party-convent) in Nuremberg. But Hitler did not demand to put his face on everything: druring the twelve years of the Third Reich about 480 stamps (service stamps incl.) were issued.Hitler appears on 20 commemoratives, most of them issued for his birthdays and 25 regulars (definitives).So alltogether 45 stamps. Hindenburg,who was president till his death in 1934,appeared on 37 stamps.Some more,21,with his portrait were issued,before Hitler became Reichskanzler.After Hindenburg´s death no new president followed.But Hitler acted also as head of state,as well as head of the government (Reichs-kanzler).Hindenburg regular stamps were used till 1941 (remained valid till the end of the war),when new regulars showing Hitler were issued. By the way Hitler drew royalties for the use of his protraits on stamps.To what he perfectly was entitled to. Most of the stamps showing Hitler,are of an outstanding high quality of print and design. But that makes him not less monstrous as a human being,although a fascinating one.
