page_title: Germania (stamp)
section_title: Postal stationeries
hierarchical_section_title: Germania (stamp) / Postal stationeries
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan of postcard from Libau (Russian territory occupied by Germany) to Berlin, 4 December 1917.
context_page_description: Germania stamps are definitive stamps that were issued by the German Empire and the Weimar Republic between 1900 and 1922, depicting Germania. They represent the longest running series in German philately and are in their many variations and derivations an essential part of German philatelic collections.
context_section_description: From 1900 onwards the Deutsche Reichspost issued several postal stationeries with imprinted Germania stamps. The most common one is a ‘Postkarte’ (postcard) with an imprinted 5 Pfennig stamp. In 1916 the German government introduced a tax on the postal traffic, the Reichsabgabe. This involved a raising of the postal rates and the 5 Pfennig postcard was replaced by a 7½ Pfennig postcard. In 1918 the Reichsabgabe was raised. Now the 10 Pfennig postcard for international mail had to be used for domestic mail too.
  Postal stationeries with imprinted Germania stamps have been overprinted for the use in a.o.:
  Allenstein (overprint ‘Plébiscite Olsztyn Allenstein’);
  Bavaria (overprint ‘Freistaat Bayern’);
  Occupied Belgium (overprint ‘Belgien’ and value in Belgian francs);
  The Free City of Danzig (overprint ‘Danzig’);
  The Memel Territory (overprint ‘Memelgebiet’);
  Occupied Poland (overprints ‘Russisch Polen’ and ‘Gen.-Gouv. Warschau’);
  Occupied Romania (overprints ‘M.V.i.R.’ and ‘Rumänien’);
  Occupied Russia (overprint ‘Postgebiet Ob. Ost’);
  The Saargebiet (overprint ‘Saargebiet’).
  In short, the postal stationeries with imprinted Germania stamps were almost as widely used as the stamps themselves.
caption: 7½ Pfennig postcard with Ob. Ost overprint, sent from Libau (now Liepāja in Latvia) to Berlin on 4 December 1917. The rectangular stamp is a censor mark from Königsberg.
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