Berlin (DE)

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million people,Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union, and is Germany's largest city.First documented in the 13th century, Berlin became the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918), the German Empire (1871–1918), the Weimar Republic (1919–33) and the Third Reich (1933–45). The first written records of towns in the area of present-day Berlin date from the late 12th century. Spandau is first mentioned in 1197 and Köpenick in 1209, although these areas did not join Berlin until 1920 when 20 Districts formed the Groß-Berlin.

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See the Following Berlin x (DE) pages for the 12 boroughs of Berlin and their postal history. Berlin 1 / Berlin 2 / Berlin 3 / Berlin 4 / Berlin 5 / Berlin 6 / Berlin 7 / Berlin 8 / Berlin 9 / Berlin 10 / Berlin 11 / Berlin 12

1 Reunified Germany
- 1.1 Special postmarks
2 Federal Republic of Germany
3 Berlin City Post Berlin Stadtpost
4 Sub Postoffices
5 Post WWII Period
- 5.1 Allied Occupied Germany
6 Commemorative cancels
- 6.1 3rd Reich - January 1933 to May 1945
  - 6.1.1 Berlin Olympic Games 1936
  - 6.1.2 Kriegshilfswerk (KHW)
7 German Empire
- 7.1 Covers in German Empire
8 Prussian era
9 German Democratic Republic
- 9.1 Special postmarks
- 9.2 Covers, cards, and philatelic souvenirs
10 Meter cancels (all periods and all districts)

Reunified Germany

First day postmark for "Bremer Stadtmusikanten" 9 Feb 2017, Cancelled in Berlin.

Special postmark 1992. Windmill.

Special postmark 1995. Climate Change Conderence.

Special postmarks

Postal stationery card, Aland 1990, Michel No. P2 for "Philatelia'90" in Berlin, 08-10-11-1990	Exhibition Card of the Norway Post for "PHILATELIA'90" in Berlin, 08-10-11-1990	Exhibition Card of the Norway Post for "PHILATELIA'92" in Berlin, 09-11-10-1990
Philatelic map of Greenland for "PHILATELIA'90" in Berlin, 10-11-1990	Exhibition envelope of the Netherlands Post for "PHILATELIA'90 in Berlin, 08-10-11-1990 Postal stationery card Michel No. P 0157, postmarked at "10619 Berlin 12" from 18-12-1998	Philatelic souvenir envelope to the reopening of the longing of the S-Bahn line S25 in Berlin, postmarked at "10878 Berlin", 25-09-1998 200th anniversary Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, first day cancel, 12 Feb 2009

Federal Republic of Germany

"Deutscher Jazz-Salon" Berlin Kongresshalle, 18 Jan 1959

(1) BERLIN SW 11 5.12.60 BERLIN ist eine REISE wert; Come and see BERLIN

(1) BERLIN NW 21-Kongresshalle 21 May 1961, German Jazz Saloon

Jazz at a summer evening - a film, Berlin Tempelhof 1, 24 Mar 1960

International Film Festival, Theatre Meeting, Festival Weeks, Jazz Fest Berlin, 7 Feb 1984

Great Karl Marx Street festival - "in Nixdorf is music", 2 May 1981

Special postmark 1980

Great Karl Marx Street festival 1982 - "in Nixdorf is music", 8 May 1982

Berlin City Post Berlin Stadtpost

BERLIN STADTPOST-EXT VIII Wrapper to Deva, Transylvania, modern day Romania.

BERLIN STADTPOST-EXT VIII cancel detail

BERLIN STADTPOST-EXT VIII Deva reciept stamp on reverse

Sub Postoffices

After 1870 (German Empire), opening dates to be identified.

Berlin C. (Central)

Berlin C1 = "Hofpostamt" = Imperial Court Post Office
Berlin C2 = Berlin main post office at the "Alexanderplatz" (= the single location for the sale of German colonial stamps inside Germany)

Berlin C 1885 evening posted mail	Berlin C (Central) in 1899	"Berlin C" in 1928	"Berlin C2", 03-1933
Michel No. 556, postmarked at "Berlin C2", 15-02-1935

FDC to the "Day of the Stamp, 1957" in the former GDR, real used from Berlin to Dresden, postmarked at "Berlin C2", 30-10-1957

Berlin W. (West)

PA=Post Amt

Berlin W PA.9 in 1885	Berlin W 38 in 1890	Bridge Berlin W in 1894
Berlin W 35 in 1900	Empty bridge at "Berlin W", 30-06-1921	Berlin W 50 in 1935

Berlin W 8 in 1921

Empty bridge at "Berlin W 8", 28-04-1922

Michel No. 250, empty bridge at "Berlin W", 27-08-1923

"Berlin W55", 15-12-1926	Michel No 366, bridge at "Berlin W7", 08-02-1927
"Berlin W", 27-09-1927	Michel No. 592, postmarked at "Berlin W9", 19-02-1936	Berlin W 9 in 1942 on block of 4	1940

BERLIN W. ☆ 10 e. in 1919

Berlin N.W. (North West)

Berlin N.W. 7(?) in 1904

Michel No. 247, empty bridge at "Berlin NW 40", 09-03-1923

"Berlin NW", 1926

Berlin N.W.7 in 1927

Berlin N.W. in December 1927

Postcard

From C. Sommerfeld & Co., BERLIN NW.21 (Moabit, Mitte) to Anderlecht, Belgium on 31 August 1923, with 10 stamps (36,000 Marks).

Berlin N. (North)

File:Berlin (DE) DRN a.jpg	Circle BERLIN.N. 24. in 1898	Bridge BERLIN N in 1912	Michel No. 198; bridge at "Berlin N", 11-05-1922
Bridge BERLIN N in 1922	"Berlin N24", 12-01-1926	"Berlin N54", 22-09-1927	"Berlin N", 09-02-1932
Michel No. 569y, postmarked at "Berlin N4", 03-1935

Berlin O. (East)

circle at Berlin O 27 on 22-06-1901	empty bridge at Berlin O 2, 12-08-1919	bridge at "Berlin O 27", 24-07-1920	circle (little format) at "Berlin O", 22-10-1921
empty bridge at "Berlin O 17", 12-1922	Berlin O 17C in August 1923	"Berlin O", 02-03-1928	Michel No. 652, postmarked at "Berlin O", 18-03-1938
Michel No. 655, postmarked at "Berlin O17", 18-03-1938	Michel No. 677, postmarked at "Berlin O17", 27-05-1939	Michel No. 739, postmarked at "Berlin O17", 23-04-1940
BERLIN 0. ☆ 17 c. in 1933.	BERLIN 0. d 17 d. in 1934.

Berlin S (South)

Michel No. 90IIb, empty bridge at "Berlin S", 21-04-1920

BERLIN S in 1949.

Berlin S.O. (South-East)

File:Berlin (DE) DRSO a.jpg

Berlin SO in 1923.

Berlin S.W. (South-West)

File:Berlin (DE) DRSW a.jpg	BERLIN S.W.19 in 1886	BERLIN S.W.29 in 1890	BERLIN SW in 1913
BERLIN SW 68 in December 1921	BERLIN SW 68 in August 1923	BERLIN SW in September 1923	BERLIN SW 68 in October 1923
Berlin SW68 on 07-11-1931	Berlin SW11 on 01-11-1933	Michel No. 755, postmarked at "Berlin SW", 10-12-1940

Berlin-Charlottenburg

Michel No. 515, 5 (Rpf.), postmarked in "Berlin-Charlottenburg", 12-01-1936

Michel No. 604, 6 (Rpf.), postmarked in "Berlin-Charlottenburg", 05-03-1936

Michel No. 638, 8+4 (Rpf.), postmarked at "Berlin-Charlottenburg 2", 31-12-1936

Roller cancel Charlottenburg 1921

Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Michel No. 603, postmarked at "Berlin-Wilmersdorf", 04-1936

Berlin-Borsigwalde

from the local government reform of 1938 onwards : part of Berlin-Tegel, before: part of Wittenau

Michel No. 665, postmarked at "Berlin-Borsigwalde", 07-1938

Berlin to be located

P.A. 46 in 1874

"Berlin" , 04-07-1874

Circle "Berlin 38" (= "Berlin W 38" ...?), 02-06-1921

Michel No. 502A, postmarked at "Berlin", 17-09-1934

BERLIN. P.A.8. in 1874.

Post WWII Period

1949

1950

Allied Occupied Germany

1945 - 1949

Michel No. 6, postmarked at "Berlin", 09-02-1946

Special Cancel BERLIN C2 a DEUTSCHE CENTRALVERWALTUNG FÜR VOLKSBILDUNG KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG IM ZEUGHAUS 21.6.46.-13

Michel No. 202, 29-19-1948

Berlin C

Meter BERLIN C 2 20.5.46

Berlin N

BERLIN N 4 an 30.8.45

BERLIN N, 1950

Berlin W

BERLIN W 10 g 12.8.46. 13-14

Berlin SW

BERLIN (SW 11) 29.8.(45). () Achtet auf den Kartoffelkäfer

Berlin-Charlottenburg

BERLIN-CHARLOTTENBURG 2 ap 6.8.46.-10

BERLIN-CHARLOTTENBURG 1957.

Berlin-Dahlem

Receiving postmark BERLIN- Dahlem b 26.3.46. 6-7N

Berlin-Köpernick

BERLIN-KÖPERNICK 1 d 25.2.46.-13

Commemorative cancels

3rd Reich - January 1933 to May 1945

Berlin Olympic Games 1936

BERLIN OLYMPISCHES DORF 1936

Kriegshilfswerk (KHW)

Souvenir card with Michel No. 902 + 903 and a special cancellation to the "Kriegshilfswerk (KHW)", at "Berlin SO 36", 22-09-1944

German Empire

DC in 1873

Covers in German Empire

Cover sent from Berlin to Gifhorn 1902. Cancelled with BICKERDIKE cancel.

Prussian era

103 cancel of Berlin

German Democratic Republic

East-Berlin was 09 Oct 1949 - 02 Oct 1990 the capital of the German Democratic Republic.

Special postmarks

Covers, cards, and philatelic souvenirs

FDC with Michel No. 1958, 1961, postmarked in "1085 Berlin", 21-05-1974	FDC with Michel No. 1959, 1960, postmarked in "1085 Berlin", 21-05-1974	FDC with Michel No. 2078-2082, "1085 Berlin", 09-09-1975
FDC with 2 x Michel No. 2287, postmarked in "1085 Berlin", 10-01-1978	Postal Stationery Envelope (PSE), Michel No. U11, postmarked at "1085 Berlin", 06-03-1990	Michel No. 2484v, Venus-1, postmarked in "1193 Berlin-Treptow", 12-02-1981
Souvenir Envelop to 25 years Interflug, postmarked at "1189 Berlin-Schönefeld", 13-05-1981	Souvenir envelope with Michel No. 2754 + 2757, postmarked at "1080 Berlin 8", 14-06-1983, to the Martin-Luther-Exhibition in the "Altes Museum", Berlin	Souvenir envelope with Michel No. 2755 + 2756, postmarked at "1080 Berlin 8", 14-06-1983, to the Martin-Luther-Exhibition in the "Altes Museum", Berlin
Souvenir postcard to "75 years of the airfield Jonannisthal"; postmrked at "1197 Berlin-Johannisthal", 26-09-1984	FDC to Michel No. 2982, postmarked at "1085 Berlin", 22-10-1985	Souvenir envelope to the "XXV Olympic Day of the Athletes 1987" in Berlin, postmarked at "1058 Berlin 58", 08-07-1987
Souvenir envelope to the "XXVI Olympic Day of the Athletes 1988" in Berlin, postmarked at "1058 Berlin 58", 29-06-1988