Feldpost Stamps
FELDPOST STAMPS
Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference
General Issues
1942
Mi.1
Permission stamp for air mail field post covers (18.04.1942/1943)
Mi.2
Permission stamp for field post packages (10.07.1942/1943)
1944
Mi.3
Permission stamp for field post packages up to 2 Kg (24.11.1944)
'FELDPOST/ 2 kg' overprint on Mi.795 (40 Pf)
Mi.4
Permission stamp for field post Christmas packages up to 1000 g from homeland to front (20.10.1944)
Local issues
1943
Mi.5
Permission stamp for field post for the troops in North Africa. Tunis (April 1943)
Island Post
Mi.6
Vukovar overprint (diagonal 'Inselpost' on Mi.2 B). October 1944
Mi.7
Crete overprint (horizontal 'Inselpost' in red on Mi.1). November 1944
Mi.8
Rhodes Island overprint (horizontal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.1). November 1944
Mi.9
Rhodes Island overprint (horizontal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.2 b). November 1944
Agram (Zagreb)
Overprint (diagonal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.2 A and 2 B). November 1944
Leros
Mi.11
Overprint (horizontal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.1). February 1945
Note: This type style was also overprinted on a small number of Mi.2 A and 2 B
Rhodes
Mi.12
Postage stamp for the Aegean Islands (Mi.105 from 1938/39) overprinted with 'WEIHNACHTEN/ 1944'. December 1944
U-BOOT SUBMARINE POST
Mi.13
Permission stamp for the troops cut off on the Hela peninsula. March 1945
Note: During the years of German occupation of Poland (1939-1945), Hela's defences were further expanded, and a battery of three 40.6 cm SK C/34 gun was constructed, but the guns were soon moved to the Atlantic Wall in occupied France. Hela peninsula remained in German hands until the end of World War II, when the defending forces surrendered on 14 May 1945, six days after Germany capitulated.
Kuban bridgehead
Mi.14
Package permission stamp. Two printed lines '1 Päcken/ Front-Heimat'. April 1943
Crimea
Mi.15
Package permission stamp. Three printed lines '1 Päcken/ Richtung/ Heimat'. November 1943
Courland
Mi.16
Half of Mi.4 divided vertically used in Courland as permission stamp for air mail. March 1945
Ruhr Pocket
Mi.17
Air mail permission stamp for the troops encircled in the Ruhr area (Mi.782 - 3 pf - with overprint 'Feldpost'). April 1945
Also catalogued but not listed: 'OSTPRUSSEN-FELDPOST' (1941), Salonika unofficials (May 1944), Ã…rhus (Denmark) private creation, the 'Narvik stamp' (Norway) private creation.
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