1930 My Covers

WEIMAR REPUBLIC
OTHER POSTCARDS
1930

The 1930 postcard page has now been split into four separate pages as it was beginning to get unwieldy. All 1930 Official postcards are now on this page. Official postcards are cards that were issued by the Reich’s post office, had pre-printed (indicia) stamps and were widely available throughout German towns and cities.

Secondly Printed to Private Order postcards are postcards that were generally issued by entities that were advertising an event or commemorating an anniversary, and also had pre-printed stamps, but were not widely available throughout Germany (most were only available at the event they were commemorating).

Thirdly Other postcards are postcards that fall into the same general category as printed to private order however they do not have pre-printed stamps.

Finally, Miscellaneous postcards is where you will find postcards that do not fit into the first three categories (i.e. they are not official, they do not have pre-printed stamps, and they do not commemorate an event).

Quick Links:
REGENSBURG GYMNASTICS FESTIVAL , RHINELAND OCCUPATION ENDS , 5th STATE GYMNASTICS FESTIVAL and 36th GERMAN PHILATELIST'S DAY

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JAHNTURNHALLE
REGENSBURG GYMNASTICS FESTIVAL
(5th Jan 1930)

FROM MY COLLECTION

RHINELAND OCCUPATION ENDS
(Jun 1930)

At the end of World War I, the region of Germany known as the Rhineland came under Allied occupation. Under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the German military was forbidden from all territory west of the Rhine or within 50 km east of it. The 1925 Locarno Treaties reaffirmed the permanently-demilitarized status of the Rhineland. In 1929, German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann negotiated the withdrawal of the Allied forces. The last soldiers left the Rhineland in June 1930.

There were a number of propaganda postcards published commemorating the regions newly found freedom.

Click here for more examples of these postcards.