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27th September 1941 Wiener Messe 27.09.1941 Wiener Messe reverse.jpeg 27.09.1941 Wiener Messe reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard depicting the Wiener Messe south hall of the technical exhibition centre. Featuring a 6 Pf postage stamp (Mi.769) first issued on 8th March 1941 on the occasion of the Viennese Spring Fair (the stamp depicts the building on the postcard). Ref: 27.09.1941 Wiener Messe Viennese Trade Fair The first Vienna trade fair opened on 11th September 1921 after just four months of planning with the aim of leading Austria out of economic isolation after the First World War. The exhibitions (which were not open to the public) were spread across several locations in Vienna and had as their model the Messe Frankfurt, which had been relaunched three years previously. The largest area included parts of the site of the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873 in the Prater. The central building was the rotunda and its open spaces designed by John Scott Russell for the World Exhibition (which was always unsuitable for a trade fair and fell into ruins in 1921). Other venues were the Hofstallungen , the Stiftskaserne (paper fair) and the Handelsakademie (medical and surgical instruments). In the years that followed, the rotunda was used for numerous exhibitions and events. From 1921 onwards, the Vienna Trade Fair (spring fair, autumn fair) was held twice a year. As early as 1923, Wiener Messe AG received the irrevocable state award, which allowed it to permanently use the federal coat of arms in business transactions. Postcard depicting the Rotundengelände of the Wien er Messe. Sent by a member of the SS. Ref: 14.03.1940 After the fire in the Rotunda in 1937 and the 'annexation' to the National Socialist Third Reich, Vienna as a trade fair location became increasingly less important and the Vienna Trade Fair was finally closed in 1942. During the Second World War, the remaining buildings and the surrounding exhibition grounds were largely destroyed. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
6th August 1941 JB: Moritzburg 1/1 Postcard depicting the castle Schloss Moritzburg. Featuring commemorative cancel JB:Moritzburg1/539. Ref: 06.08.1941 MORITZBURG cancellation as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) Note: This is the only special cancellation of the 3rd Reich period. This design was used between 1936-1950 JB:Moritzburg1/539 - 'Jagdschloß/ Wildpark/ Ausflugsort/ Sommerfrische'. Ref: 06.08.1941 Moritzburg Castle Moritzburg Castle or Moritzburg Palace is a Baroque palace in Moritzburg, in the German state of Saxony, about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northwest of the Saxon capital, Dresden. The castle has four round towers and lies on a symmetrical artificial island. It is named after Duke Moritz of Saxony, who had a hunting lodge built there between 1542 and 1546. The surrounding woodlands and lakes were a favourite hunting area of the electors and kings of Saxony. Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony, who lived in the castle between 1933 and 1945, was the last resident of the House of Wettin. He was dispossessed in 1945 by the postwar Soviet administration. Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony Ernst Heinrich opposed the Nazis after they formed a government on 30th January 1933. However, he failed to read the political situation correctly. He believed that Hitler could be stopped by the conservative political opposition and, in the spring of 1933, he joined Der Stahlhelm , hoping he could escape the influence of the Nazis. On 1st July 1934, during the Night of the Long Knives, he was arrested. He was interned in the concentration camp in Hohnstein for five days. After his release, Ernst Heinrich retired to Moritzburg Castle in Saxony. He was an avid hunter and had to keep in touch with Nazi leaders such as Hermann Göring, who, as Master of the Hunt, was interested in the forests owned by the Wettins, and Martin Mutschmann, the Nazi governor of Saxony. In 1938, he received King Carol II of Romania in his castle, and in 1939 he had extensive political discussions with Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, who had been mayor of Leipzig and was later active in the German resistance. A few weeks before the outbreak of World War II, Ernst Heinrich was drafted into the Abwehr group IV in Dresden. In 1943, he openly expressed doubts that the death of his brother Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony had been an accident. The Gestapo then arrested and questioned him. However, there were no further personal consequences, as the Nazis were still reluctant to confront a member of a former royal family. Ernst Heinrich was an admirer of the art of Käthe Kollwitz. After she lost her home when Berlin was bombed in 1943, he invited her to move to Moritzburg, where she lived and worked at the Rudenhof , a mansion in the immediate vicinity of the castle, until she died in April 1945. In February 1945, nearby Dresden was bombed. In March 1945, Ernst Heinrich fled to Sigmaringen to escape the advancing Red Army. Before he left, Ernst Heinrich and his sons buried most of their valuables in 40 crates in the Königswald forest. Most of this treasure was found by the Red Army and carried off to the Soviet Union. However, three crates full of treasure were rediscovered in 1995. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
7th April 1941 Rudolf Lipus 1/1 Feldpost postcard featuring the artwork of Rudolph Lipus (described as a 'Wachtmeister' - In the German army ground forces, the designation of the Feldwebel rank of Cavalry and Artillery was the 'Wachtmeister' until 1945). Taken from 'Soldatenblätter für Freie und Freizeit'. These soldatenblätter contained photos, stories, small removable pictures for decorating your bunker or barracks, games, tips and tricks for different things, postcards, etc. Ref: 07.04.1941 Rudolf Lipus (1893-1961) German painter and graphic artist who was particularly successful during the National Socialist era. From 1908 to 1912 he completed his first apprenticeship at the Leipzig publishing house CG Röder, after which Lipus studied painting and graphics at the Leipzig Academy for Graphic Arts, including with Alois Kolb. During the First World War he worked as a trench illustrator and received a prize from a competition for a war memorial sheet. He completed his studies after the end of the World War, and from then on he worked as a freelance graphic artist, ex-librist and landscape and portrait painter and became a permanent employee of the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung . During the Nazi era, Lipus was regularly represented at the annual exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art. With the advent of the Second World War he was initially integrated into a war reporter company as a painter, before being assigned as a war painter to an army propaganda company from 1942 onwards, the 'Fine Artists Squadron' of the Potsdam Propaganda Operations Department, which was directly subordinate to the Wehrmacht High Command. His propaganda images glorifying war are among the best-known examples of this genre, including Tanks in Battle , Fighters , German Artillery on the Advance , German Non-Commissioned Officer after the Street Fight , Through the Russian Steppe , Reconnaissance Pilots , In Firing Position , and In Combat Formation . Between 1941 and 1944 he was represented with 20 pictures at the “'Great German Art Exhibition', making him the most prolific painter of propaganda pictures of that time. The buyers of the works included Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Albert Speer. In 1943 he lost his studio and most of his works. In 1944 he was represented at the art exhibition Reichsführer SS in Breslau 'German Artists and the SS'. After 1945, he worked as a book illustrator for the publishing house Volk und Wissen and as a press illustrator, without much success . Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
14th December 1941 'Hein Godenwind' 14.12.1941 Hein Godenwind reverse.jpeg 14.12.1941 Hein Godenwind reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard depicting the 'Hein Godenwind'. the address to the reverse indicates the recipient, a woman, was part of the K.H.D. (Kriegshilfsdienst). Ref: 14.12.1941 Hien Godenwind The Hein Godenwind was a full-length ship built in 1902 at the French shipyard Chantiers et Ateliers de Penhoët in Saint-Nazaire as Maréchal Souchet . The ship was used as the first floating youth hostel in the port of Hamburg from 1933 to 1939. In July 1924 the ship was sold to Germany to the F. Laeisz shipping company in Hamburg and continued to be used as a cargo sailing vessel as Pellworm . The Pellworm was decommissioned in May 1925 and sold to the Syndikat shipping company. After being converted into a residential ship with space for 1200 people, it was used in the port of Hamburg. At the beginning of the 1930s, the Hamburg Port Operations Association took over the ship, which donated it to the Nordmark Gau of the Reich Association of German Youth Hostels in 1933. After another renovation by Blohm & Voss, it was put into service as a floating youth hostel on 8th April 1934 under the name Hein Godenwind . It provided accommodation for 514 people. At the beginning of 1939 the ship was placed under the control of the Hamburg Naval Office and used as an office ship. From November 1939 it served as a living ship for the crew of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper , which required some modifications by Blohm & Voss. It then served again as an office ship and for supervising the construction of the battleship Bismarck . In 1942 it was subordinated to the 8th Warship Construction Training Department. During the air raids on Hamburg in the summer of 1943, the ship was hit on 25th July and caught fire. As a result, it sank to the bottom of the harbour basin. It was raised at the beginning of 1944 and the Hulk was taken to the Curonian Lagoon in February as a target ship for the German Luftwaffe. It was later sunk there during Luftwaffe exercises. Source: Wikipedia Kriegshilfsdienst (K.H.D.) At the beginning of the Second World War, the war relief service was introduced as a temporary measure for high school students. For example, students were used to distribute ration cards. On 29th July 1941, Hitler issued a decree on the 'Reich Labor Service of Female Youth' that women had to do an additional six months of military service in addition to the six months of Reich Labor Service. The work was paid 45 Reichsmarks per month. Officially, military service should be carried out at social institutions, in hospitals and with needy families, at authorities and at Wehrmacht offices. In fact, of the 50,000 women recruited in the winter of 1942/43, 30,000 worked in transport companies and the armaments industry. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
Mi.764 - 767 (01.03.1941) Leipzig Spring Fair 1/1 Cover to sent from Oberurbach to a family member in Göppingen. Featuring 2 x 12 Pf postage stamps from the 1941 Leipzig Spring Fair issue (M.766). Note the vignette to the reverse flap for an award given at the 4th State Food Society Show in Munich (1937). Ref: 17/43 - date difficult to read. REPLACE MAIN IMAGE WITH 30/55 Mi.764 - 767 Leipzig Spring Fair Notes: Engraving: Erich Stahl. Photogravure, State Printing Works, Vienna. Sheets 5 x 10. Without watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until 31.12.1942 Mi.764 (3 Pf - House of Nations). Ref: 02.09.1941 Note on Mi.764 (3 Pf) - exists in which the year reads '19 2 1' instead of '19 4 1'. Mi.765 (6 Pf - Cloth Hall - 'Gewandhaus'). Ref: 02.09.1941 Mi.766 (12 Pf - Old Weigh House). Ref: 17/43 Mi.767 (25 Pf - Central Station). Ref: 02.09.1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
21st June 1941 E. Höpfner 21.06.1941 K21 reverse.jpeg 21.06.1941 K21 reverse.jpeg 1/1 Nachnahme cover sent from stamp dealer E. Höpfner in Berlin. Including postage stamps K21 and Mi.771. Ref: 21.06.1941 E. Höpfner Briefmarkenhandlung (stamp dealer), Schönefeld - Berlin - Grünau Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
14th July 1941 JB: Merzig 14.07.1941 Merzig reverse.jpeg 14.07.1941 Merzig reverse.jpeg 1/1 Registered cover sent from Frankfurt to Merzig. The cover includes the address 'Horst-Wessel-Strasse'. The street has since been renamed 'Forest Road'. The Merzig special cancellation to the reverse was the only one used by the town during this period. Ref: 14.07.1941 MERZIG cancellation as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) In use 1935 - 1944 JB:Merzig1/533 - 'Das Tor zum/ romantischen/ Saartal'. Ref: 14.07.1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page