German Republic (1919 - 1922)
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After the first world war ended, Germany became a republic. |
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The first series with a surcharge was issued, the extra money was for the war victims |
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The first commemoratives for the opening of the Parliament in Weimar |
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The first official airmail issue. |
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In 1920 a new series of high value stamps was printed. |
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Slowly inflation was picking up and the original designs had to be overprinted with the new values. |
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As Bavaria joined the republic the rest of the stocks of Bavarian stamps were overprinted with "Deutsches Reich" |
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An other Germania series, with new colors. |
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More Germania stamps, with higher values. |
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More overprints to keep up with inflation. |
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A new design were the number stamps. These were issues with two different watermarks |
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The higher values of this series showed different workers |
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The higher values were the first of the Mark number stamps, a series that would reach 100.000 Marks |
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Stamps for the Trade Show in Munich in 1922 |
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The next posthorn stamps |
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These airmail were the last stamps in Pfennig domination before the money reform in 1923. |
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