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Women in German history (Frauen der deutschen Geschichte) is a definitive stamp

Definitive stamp

A definitive stamp is a postage stamp, that is part of a regular issue of a country's stamps available for sale by the postal service for an extended period of time...

series issued in the Federal Republic of Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

and West Berlin

West Berlin

West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...

from 1986 to 1990, and in reunited Germany

Germany

since 1990.

Description

The stamps were designed by Gerd

Gerd Aretz

Gerd Aretz was a German artist. Since 1960 until his death he designed postage stamp for the Deutsche Bundespost including the Women in German history series portraits....

and Oliver Aretz.

Each stamp represents a portrait of a famous German woman. Two are Austrian: Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner FRS was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize...

and Bertha von Suttner

Bertha von Suttner

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.-Biography:Suttner was born in Prague, Bohemia, the daughter of an impoverished Austrian Field Marshal,...

. The color of the portrait is different from the colour of the country name and denomination

Denomination (postage stamp)

:This article deals with the price of a postage stamp. For other meanings of the word 'denomination' see Denomination .In philately, the denomination is the "inscribed value of a stamp"...

.

The name of the country on the stamps changed according to German history :

"Deutsche Bundespost" (Federal German Post), 1986–1990 in Western Germany and 1990–1995 in reunited Germany,
"Deutsche Bundespost — Berlin", 1986–1990 for a use in West Berlin
West Berlin
West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...

,
"Deutschland" (Germany) since 1995.

The currency of the denomination changed too with the introduction of the euro

Euro

The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...

1986 to 2000, expressed in pfennig
Pfennig
The Pfennig , plural Pfennige, is an old German coin or note, which existed from the 9th century until the introduction of the euro in 2002....

and without a unit. For example: "100" for 100 pfennig (or 1 deutsche Mark).
in 2000 and 2001, the denomination is in pfennig and in euro (with use of € symbol).
since 2002, only euro is used with the € symbol.

Women in German history (FRG and West Berlin)

Denomination in Pfennig Pfennig The Pfennig , plural Pfennige, is an old German coin or note, which existed from the 9th century until the introduction of the euro in 2002....	Woman	Michel catalog Michel catalog The Michel catalog is the largest and best-known stamp catalog in the German-speaking world. First published in 1910, it has become an important reference work for philately, with information not available in the English-language Scott catalog.The catalog started out as a price list for the dealer... 2nd line for West Berlin West Berlin West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...	Date of issue	Known for being
5	Emma Ihrer Emma Ihrer Emma Ihrer was a German politician and trade unionist.-Biography:Emma Ihrer came from a Catholic family of bootmakers. She was married young to Emmanuel Ihrer, an apothecary twenty-two years her senior...	1405 833	9 February 1989	trade unionist
10	Paula Modersohn-Becker Paula Modersohn-Becker Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. In a brief career, cut short by an embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity.-Life and work:Paula Becker was born and grew up in...	1359 806	14 April 1988	painter
20	Cilly Aussem Cilly Aussem Cilly Aussem was a German female tennis player.She was the first German to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1931. She also won the women's single titles at the French Championships and German Championships in 1931. Aussem's coach and mixed doubles partner was Bill Tilden...	1365 811	5 May 1988	tennis player
40	Maria Sibylla Merian Maria Sibylla Merian Maria Sibylla Merian was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them...	1331 788	17 September 1987	painter
50	Christine Teusch Christine Teusch Christine Teusch was a German politician of the Zentrumspartei and the Christian Democratic Union, and Minister of Culture in Nordrhein-Westfalen ....	1304 770	13 November 1986	politician
60	Dorothea Erxleben Dorothea Erxleben Dorothea Christiane Erxleben née Leporin was the first female medical doctor in Germany...	1332 824	17 September 1987 Berlin: 10. November 1988	first woman doctor in Germany
80	Clara Schumann Clara Schumann Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...	1305 771	13 November 1986	pianist and composer
100	Therese Giehse Therese Giehse Therese Giehse , born Therese Gift, was a distinguished German actress. Born in Munich to German-Jewish parents, she first appeared on the stage in 1920. She became a major star on stage, in films, and in political cabaret...	1390 825	10 November 1988	actress
120	Elisabeth Selbert Elisabeth Selbert Elisabeth Selbert was a German politician and lawyer. She was one of the four Mütter des Grundgesetzes — the inclusion of equality as a fundamental right in the German Constitution was largely her doing.-Early life:Selbert was the second of four daughters in a Christian family...	1338 —	6 November 1987	influential on West German constitution
130	Lise Meitner Lise Meitner Lise Meitner FRS was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize...	1366 812	5 May 1988	physicist
140	Cécile Vogt Cécile Vogt-Mugnier Cecile Vogt-Mugnier was a French neurologist from Haute-Savoie.-Family:She obtained her medical doctorate in Paris and was the student of Pierre Marie. There she met her future husband, Oskar Vogt, when he came to Paris to work with Joseph Jules Déjérine...	1432 848	10 August 1989	neuropathologist
170	Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact...	1391 826	10 November 1988	philosopher, author
180	Lotte Lehmann Lotte Lehmann Charlotte "Lotte" Lehmann was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart and Massenet. The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was considered her greatest...	1427 844	13 July 1989	singer
240	Mathilde Franziska Anneke Mathilde Franziska Anneke Mathilde Franziska Anneke was a German feminist, socialist, and newspaper editor, owner, and reporter. Born Mathilde Franziska Geisler, her first marriage to Alfred von Tabouillot, a rich wine merchant, ended in divorce...	1392 827	10 November 1988	feminist writer
250	Luise von Preußen Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was Queen consort of Prussia as the wife of King Frederick William III...	1428 845	13 July 1989	queen of Prussia
300	Fanny Hensel Fanny Mendelssohn Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn , later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn... geb. Mendelssohn	1433 849	10 August 1989	composer
350	Hedwig Dransfeld Hedwig Dransfeld Hedwig Dransfeld was a German Catholic feminist, writer and member of parliament.-Biography:Hedwig Dransfeld was born in Hacheney , Germany to the Romberg family . Her father, Clemens Dransfeld, was a senior forester, and her mother, Elise Fleischhauer, was a doctor's daughter and a Catholic...	1393 828	10 November 1988	politician
500	Alice Salomon Alice Salomon Alice Salomon was a German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Her role was so important to German social work that a commemorative stamp was issued in her memory...	1397 830	12 January 1989	feminist activist

Women in German history (after German reunification)

Denomination in Pfennig Pfennig The Pfennig , plural Pfennige, is an old German coin or note, which existed from the 9th century until the introduction of the euro in 2002....	Woman	Michel catalog	Date of issue	Known for being
30	Käthe Kollwitz Käthe Kollwitz Käthe Kollwitz was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century...	1488	8 January 1991	artist
70	Elisabet Boehm Elisabet Boehm Elisabet Boehm was a German feminist, writer, founder of the first Landwirtschaftlichen Hausfrauenvereins and the founder of the rural women's movement in general.-Biography:Elisabet Steppuhn was born in Rastenburg, East Prussia and married landowner Otto Boehm in 1880...	1489	8 January 1991	feminist organizer
80	Rahel Varnhagen von Ense Rahel Varnhagen Rahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen née Levin later Robert was a German-Jewish writer who hosted one of the most prominent salons in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She is the subject of a celebrated biography, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess written by Hannah Arendt...	1755	13 October 1994	author
100	Luise Henriette von Oranien	1756	13 October 1994	princess of Brandenburg
150	Sophie Scholl Sophie Scholl Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans...	1497		resistance activist
200	Bertha von Suttner Bertha von Suttner Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.-Biography:Suttner was born in Prague, Bohemia, the daughter of an impoverished Austrian Field Marshal,...	1498	14 February 1991	pacifist and writer
400	Charlotte von Stein Charlotte von Stein Charlotta Ernestina Bernadina von Stein was a lady-in-waiting at the court in Weimar and a close friend to both Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose work and life were strongly influenced by her.-Childhood:Charlotte′s parents were Hofmarschall Johann Wilhelm Christian von...	1582	9 January 1992	literary
450	Hedwig Courths-Mahler Hedwig Courths-Mahler Hedwig Courths-Mahler [he:tviç kurts ma:ler], née Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler was a German writer. She used the pseudonyms Relham, H...	1614	11 June 1992	writer
Country name: Deutschland
100	Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt Elisabeth Schwartzhaupt was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union. She was Federal Minister of Health from 1961 to 1966, the first woman to hold a Ministerial position in Germany....	1955	16 October 1997	government minister
110	Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...	1939	14 August 1997	actress
220	Marie Elisabeth Lüders Marie Elisabeth Lüders Marie-Elisabeth Lüders was a German politician and one of the most important figures in the German women's rights movement....	1940	28 August 1997	member of parliament
300	Maria Probst Maria Probst Maria Probst was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.-Biography:Daughter of the diplomat Dr Wilhelm Mayer, Maria Probst studied German and history for her doctorate, which she earned in 1930. She had two daughters of her own from her marriage to Dr Alphonse Probst, who...	1956	16 October 1997	politician
440	Gret Palucca Gret Palucca Gret Palucca was a German dancer and teacher.Shortly after birth, her family moved to San Francisco, returning with her mother to Dresden in 1909. There she received ballet lessons with Heinrich Kröller from 1914 to 1916...	2014	8 October 1998	ballerina

Women in German history (in euro)

Denomination in Pfennig and euro	Woman	Michel catalog	Date of issue	Known for being
Denomination in Pfennig and euro
100 / 0,51 €	Grethe Weiser Grethe Weiser Grethe Weiser was a German actress.- Biography :Born in Hanover, she spent her childhood in Dresden. She escaped from her dominant and sometimes violent father by marrying a Jewish confectionery manufacturer in 1920. Her only child, a son, was born in 1922...	2149	9 November 2000	actress
110 / 0,56 €	Käte Strobel Käte Strobel Käte Strobel was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .Born in Nuremberg, from 1923 to 1938 Käte Müller worked in the office of agricultural organisations in Bavaria. In 1928, she married Hans Strobel, who in 1934 was arrested for planning high treason against the Nazis...	2150	9 November 2000	government minister
220 / 1,12 €	Marieluise Fleißer Marieluise Fleißer Marieluise Fleißer was a German author and playwright.Her best known works are two plays, Purgatory in Ingolstadt and Pioneers in Ingolstadt . Bertolt Brecht persuaded the director Moriz Seeler to stage the first play, which Seeler retitled; Fleißer's original title was The Washing of Feet....	2158	11 January 2001	writer
300 / 1,53 €	Nelly Sachs Nelly Sachs Nelly Sachs was a Jewish German poet and playwright whose experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokeswoman for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews...	2159	11 January 2001	Nobel prize winning author
Denomination in euro only
0,45 €	Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Anna Elisabeth von Droste-Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , was a 19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets.-Biography:...	2295	27 December 2002	poet
0,55 €	Hildegard Knef Hildegard Knef Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.-Early years:...	2296	27 December 2002	actress, singer, and writer
1,00 €	Marie Juchacz Marie Juchacz Marie Juchacz was a German social reformer, social democrat and feminist.- Life and career :...	2305	16 January 2003	political activist
1,44 €	Esther von Kirchbach Esther von Kirchbach Esther von Kirchback, maiden name Esther von Carlowitz was a German journalist, poet and chaplain.-Biography:Esther was the eldest daughter of four children of Adolph von Carlowitz, Saxonian officer and later War Minister...	2297	27 December 2002	writer

Description

Women in German history (FRG and West Berlin)

Women in German history (after German reunification)

Women in German history (in euro)

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