List of people on the postage stamps of the German Democratic Republic

This is a list of people on postage stamps of the German Democratic Republic.

See also list of people on stamps of Germany.

This list is complete for appearances on regular stamps from 1950 to 1960.

Contents :

• Top
• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A

• Ernst Abbe (1956)
• Hermann Abendroth (1957)
• Kurt Adams pedagogue (1958)
• Georgius Agricola (1955)
• Rudi Arndt KPD-activist (1958)
• Avicenna (1952)

B

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1950)
• Bernhard Bästlein, German Resistance (1964)
• Jakub Bart Cisinsky, poet (1956)
• Johannes Robert Becher (1959)
• August Bebel (1952, 1955)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (1952)
• Olga Benario-Prestes (1959)
• Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, general (1953)
• Bertolt Brecht (1957)
• Rudolf Breitscheid (1957)
• Lorenz Breunig, German resistance (1960)
• Pavel Bykov (1951)

C

• Lucas Cranach, painter (1953)
• Comenius (1958)

D

• Charles Darwin (1958)
• Henri Dunant, Red Cross founder (1957)

E

• Charlotte Eisenblätter, German resistance (1959)
• Friedrich Engels (1952, 1953, 1955)
• Lothar Erdmann, German resistance (1960)
• Leonhard Euler (1950, 1957)

F

• Friedrich Fröbel, educator (1957)

G

• August von Gneisenau (1960)
• Nikolai Gogol, writer (1952)
• Maxim Gorky, writer (1953)
• Klement Gottwald, Czech leader (1952)
• Wilhelm Griesinger (1960)
• Jacob Grimm (1950)
• Maria Großmuss, German resistance (1959)

H

• George Handel, composer (1952, 1959)
• Adolf von Harnack (1950)
• Arvid Harnack, German Resistance (1983)
• Gerhart Hauptmann (1952)
• G. W. F. Hegel (1952)
• Heinrich Heine, poet (1956)
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1950)
• Heinrich Hertz (1957)
• Lambert Horn, German resistance (1960)
• Victor Hugo, writer (1952)
• Alexander von Humboldt (1950, 1959)
• Wilhelm von Humboldt (1950)

J

• Franz Jacob (Resistance fighter), German resistance (1964)
• Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, politician (1952)
• Joachim Jungius (1957)

K

• Heinrich von Kleist (1953)
• Tilde Klose, German resistance (1959)
• Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, architect (1953)
• Robert Koch (1960)
• Käthe Kollwitz (1952)
• Albert Kuntz KPD-activist (1958)

L

• Max Lademann, German resistance (1960)
• Gottfried Leibniz (1950)
• Vladimir Lenin (1960)
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, dramatist (1954)
• Karl Liebknecht (1951, 1955, 1959)
• Wilhelm Liebknecht (1955)
• Carl von Linné (1958)
• Albert Lortzing (1952)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1955, 1959)

M

• Thomas Mann, novelist (1956)
• Mao Zedong, Chinese leader (1951)
• Karl Marx, economist (1952, 1953, 1955)
• Franz Mehring (1955)
• Theodor Mommsen, historian (1950)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (1956)
• Thomas Müntzer, Protestant theologian, rebel leader (1953)

N

• Walther Nernst (1950)
• Balthasar Neumann, architect (1953)
• Käthe Niederkirchner, German resistance (1959)
• Otto Nuschke, politician (1958)

P

• Wilhelm Pieck (1950, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1960)
• Max Planck (1950, 1958)

R

• Guenther Ramin, musician (1957)
• Heinrich Rau, politician (1966, 1976, 1979)
• Ludwig Renn, writer (1990)
• Rudolf Renner, journalist (1958)
• Fritz Reuter, writer (1954)
• Hans Rothbart, German resistance (1960)

S

• Anton Saefkow, German resistance (1964)
• Gustl Sandner, German resistance (1960)
• Ferdinand von Schill (1953)
• Friedrich von Schiller (1955, 1959)
• Paul Schneider (1957)
• Ernst Schneller, German resistance (1960)
• Franz Schubert, composer (1953)
• Harro Schulze-Boysen, German Resistance (1983)
• Robert Schumann, composer (1956)
• Werner Seelenbinder, athlete, German Resistance fighter, (1964)
• John Sieg, German Resistance (1983)
• Joseph Stalin (1951, 1954)
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein (1953)

T

• Ernst Thälmann, revolutionary leader (1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960)
• Mathias Thesen, German resistance (1960)

U

• Walter Ulbricht (1961)

V

• Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance man (1952)
• Rudolf Virchow (1952, 1960)

W

• Carl Maria von Weber, composer (1952)
• Erich Wirth (1951)

Z

• Carl Zeiss (1956)
• Clara Zetkin (1955, 1957)
• Heinrich Zille (1958)