GET TO KNOW GERMANY POSTCARDS

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PAUL von HINDENBURG
FIRST SERIES
P221 - PRIVATE OVERPRINTS

The First Hindenburg 'Get to Know Germany' series appeared in early 1933 and are collectively refered to as P221. This series comprises a total of 78 different cards, 69 of them have the heading 'Lernt Deutschland Kennen!' and the remaining 9 have either 'Besucht das Grenzland' (1 example), 'Besucht das schöne Schlesien' (5 examples) or 'Pruβische Staatsbader' (3 examples). Cards of the first Hindenburg series are easily identified by the elongated tail on the 'e' of 'Postkarte'. Later issues do not have such an elongated 'e'.

BERLIN SO.16

Official postcards P221/05, /24, /30 and /37 can all be found with a private printing on the reverse side. The printing consists of approx 15 lines of text starting with "BERLIN SO16, Oktober 1940 | Brücken-Str. 10b". Within the body of the text is "Deutschland-Ganzsachen-Nettopreisliste 1941" which is underlined. The text ends with "Heil Hitler" and a signature.



ABOVE LEFT: P221/05
ABOVE RiGHT: P221/24



ABOVE LEFT: P221/30
ABOVE RiGHT: P221/37

RUD, DIETEL, CHEMNITZ

Private printing addressed to "Rud. Dietel, | Cylinderlackfabrik - G.m.b.H | Chemnitz" can be found on cards number P221/16 and /59.



ABOVE LEFT: P221/16
ABOVE RiGHT: P221/59

KURT HORN, DRESDEN (RED/BROWN TEXT)

A private printing addressed to "Kurt Horn | Dresden/Bad Weiβer Hirsch | Danziger Straβe 20, Fernruf 32651" can be found on card number P221/59. On the reverse of the card is a table in red-brown which was to be used to write a customer's order.



ABOVE LEFT: P221/59

KURT HORN, DRESDEN (BLACK TEXT)

An almost identical private printing addressed as above exists on cards numbered P221/07, /12, /31, /32, /54, /63, /67, /72 and /76 only now with the texts in black rather than red/brown.



ABOVE LEFT: P221/07
ABOVE RiGHT: P221/12




ABOVE LEFT: P221/31
ABOVE RiGHT: P221/32



ABOVE LEFT: P221/54
ABOVE RiGHT: P221/63



ABOVE LEFT: P221/67
ABOVE RiGHT: P221/72



ABOVE LEFT: P221/76

KARLSRUHER LEBENSVERSICHEHERUNGSBANK A.G., KARLSRUHE i.23

A private printing addressed to the 'Lebensversicheherungsbank A.G., Karlsruhe' exists on card number P221/15.



ABOVE LEFT: P221/15

HERMANN SIEGER, LORCH

An priviate printing exists on card number P221/48. The reverse side of the card has multiple lines of text starting with an underlined "HERMANN E. SIEGER, LORCH - WUERTTBG".



ABOVE LEFT: P221/48

AN BORD "GRAF ZEPPELIN"

An priviate printing exists on card number P221/27 with the words "An Bord "Graf Zeppelin"" in the sender's section.



ABOVE LEFT: P221/27


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: 978-3-00-034028-4
2. Amtliche Ganzsachen mit privaten Zudrucken Deutsches Reich und Nebengebiete 1933-1945, 4 Auflage, Hartmut Hampe
3. The 'MICHEL Ganzsachen Deutschland 2018 ISBN: 978-3-95-402225-0