Hamburg (DE)

City view on 1973 issue

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Hamburg officially 'Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg' (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union.

Horseshoe postmarks from Hamburg L.E. (L.E. = Lotterie Expedition)

The official name reflects its history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, a city-state, and one of the 16 states of Germany. Before the 1871 Unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign state. Prior to the constitutional changes in 1919, the stringent civic republic was ruled by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten.

Postmarks in the re-unified Germany

BRIEFZENTRUM 20 mc cancel of Hamburg

5.10.92 - 9 HAMBURG 541 2000

Meter cancels (all periods and all districts)

1930	1930
1931	1931

1931

1932

1933

1934

1934

1935

1936

1937

1937

1939	1941	1951
1951	1953
1955	1956	1957
1957	1957	1958
1958	1959	1959

1959	1961
1961	1962	1966
1968	1968	1968
1969	1971

1971	1972	1972
1973	1974	1974

1974

1974

1976

1979	1980	1981
1982	1985. SGS = International Testing, inspection and certification Services	1986
1986	1987

1988	1990
1990	1990	1990
1990	1990	1990
1990	1992	1992
1993	1993	1993
1993	1993	1994
1994	1994	1995
1996	1996	1996
1997	1997	1997
1998	1998

1998	1999
1999	1999	2000
2001	2001	2001
2001	2002	2002

2002	2002	2003
2003	2003	2004
2004	2004	2005

2005

2005

2006

2006	2007. Taurus, a company in Hamburg.	2007
2009	2010	2010

2013

2013

2013

2015	2018. Landesjagd- und Naturschutzverband Hamburg.

Postmarks in the Federal Republic of Germany

In 1988

Commemorative postmark at the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Hamburg on May 28, 1965.

Machine Cancels and Roller Cancels

Rollercancel Hamburg 1948.

Machine cancel Hamburg 1954.

Slogan machine cancel (24)HAMBURG 1 c 6.7.50. "IN NOT UND GEFAHR RUFE 01 AN! POLIZEI HAMBURG

Continuous machine cancel Hamburg 1950 (24a)HAMBURG 1 c 17.6.50. "IN NOT UND GEFAHR RUFE 01 AN! POLIZEI HAMBURG

Allied Occupied Germany

Belonging to PLZ 24, British Zone.

HAMBURG 1

HAMBURG 1 an 05.4.46.-18

HAMBURG 1 an

HAMBURG 1 ap 22.5.46.-9

HAMBURG 1 ap

HAMBURG 1 au 25.6.46

HAMBURG 1 au 30.1.46

Dubious HAMBURG 1 g 9.10.45

Back-dated HAMBURG 1 g 9.10.45 20pfg issued 23.10.45

Hand Roller Cancels

Machine Postmarks

HAMBURG 1 c 10.7.45 modified adding (24)

HAMBURG 1 c 08.4.46.-9 modified adding (24)

HAMBURG 1 c 25.3.46.-20 modified adding (24)

HAMBURG 1 c 13.2.46.-10 modified adding (24)

HAMBURG 1 d 14.8.46.-12

HAMBURG 1 a 18 8 45 -16

HAMBURG 1 c 31 7 46 - 20

(24) HAMBURG 1 c 6 7 45 -12 modified adding (24)

Meter Postmarks

(24) HAMBURG 1 bb 15.9.46.-9 modified adding (24) and eagle head and swastika removed

HAMBURG 6

HAMBURG 6 d 12.12.45.-10

HAMBURG 11

HAMBURG 11 y 01.3.46-18

HAMBURG 11 y 01.2.46-14

HAMBURG 13

File:Hamburg (DE) am13b.jpg HAMBURG 13 b 12.3.46. 14

HAMBURG 13 g 9.3.46.

Meter Cancel HAMBURG-13, 1955

HAMBURG 19

HAMBURG 19 -7.3.46.-11-12 Favor Postmark

HAMBURG 19 a -9.3.46. 7-8

HAMBURG 19 h -5.3.46. 8-9

HAMBURG 36

Early HAMBURG 36 k 11.7.45. no hour given

HAMBURG 39

HAMBURG 46

HAMBURG 46 b 29.1.46

Receiving Postmarks

HAMBURG 1 e BRIEFENTKARTUNG 12.12.45.-20

Modified adding (24) - HAMBURG 39 g 22.2.46.-13

Special Postmarks

Slogan Postmarks

Machine Promotion Postmarks

(24a) HAMBURG 1a AUSSTELLUNG 100 JAHRE HAGENBECK HAMBURG-STELLINGEN 4.5.- 30.9.

Roller cancel

Covers

Early post war cover, correctly franked with 24Pfg to pay the double weight, distant letter rate. Cancelled 9.7.45 HAMBURG 1 machine cancel sent to the Firm Alois Schoenhofen Kiel-Holtenau,from Wilhelm Alsing.

Local letter rate correctly franked with 8 Pfg. Cancelled 30.1.46.-20 (24) HAMBURG 1 c with modified machine cancel adding (24) unbalancing the inscription.

Letter to the USA with 7 stamps (54 Pfg) on 13 January 1948.

Postmarks in the Weimar Republic

Michel No. 387, postmarked at "Hamburg", 03-05-1927

HAMBURG *19*

Postmarks in the German Empire

Since January 1872.

Horseshoe Hufeisen in 1872	Circle HAMBURG 8 in 1887	Circle Hamburg 8 from 28-12-1893
Circle HAMBURG 1 in 1905.	HAMBURG 11 bridge in 1911	1913
HAMBURG 1 in 1918	HAMBURG in 1920	Bridge 02-02-1922
"Hamburg 11", 03-10-1922	02-11-1923	Hamburg Horseshoe receiving cancel July 9th. 1875

Horseshoe postmarks from Hamburg L.E. (L.E. = Lotterie Expedition)

21-02-1925	"Hamburg", 03-05-1927	Michel No. 504A, circle at "Hamburg 1", 03-01-1934
Michel No. 364Y, empty bridge at "Hamburg 25", 07-01-1935	Michel No. 365, empty bridge at "Hamburg 1", 01-10-1937	Bridge HAMBURG 1 in 1938
Bridge HAMBURG 5 in 1906	HAMBURG. ☆ 11 f. in 1926

Special cancels

Special cancel Hamburg 1939

Covers, cards, and philatelic souvenirs

Telegram-money order sent from Hamburg 7 office to Poznań 16.4.1894., for 157 Mark and 1pf	Telegram-money order reverse side. Receipt (Kvitteringrummet) on the back was crossed out with sharp lines
Arrival in 1908 at Hamburg 35	Postal postcard, real used in 1875 as card sent from Berlin 3 (DE) to Hamburg, arrival postmark in horse shoe form at "Hamburg", 09-07-1875
Postal Business Card; 1889; real used from Hamburg to Crimmitwschau, franked with German Empire No. 40 (without "e") from 1880, postmarked at "Hamburg 8", 14-08-1889	Postcard locally used in Hamburg, 1905. with BICKERDIKE cancel.

Sub Offices cancels

Eppendorf

HAMBURG EPPENDORF in 1891.

Altona

Incorporated in Hamburg in .. See also https://www.stampsoftheworld.co.uk/wiki/Altona_(DE)

HAMBURG-ALTONA in July 1938.

Meter Cancel HAMBURG-ALTONA, 1962.

Railway and Sorting Carriage

HAMBURG Railway Sorting Carriage postmark HAMBURG - ? BAHNPOST ZUG 2

Postmarks in the North German Confederation

Since 1 January 1868.

Circle in 1868.

HAMBUG I.A. in 1869.

HAMBURG P.E.5. in 1868.

HAMBURG P.E.3. in 1869.

Machine cancel

With 3 lines of 5 or 8 oblique bars, used from 23 January to 14 February 1868.

File:Hamburg (DE) NPB mach a.jpg

Third type - with year - on 4-2-68.

Postmarks of the Free City Hamburg

Own stamps were issued in January 1859.

4 blue waves of Ritzebüttel on the 1859 issue.	Red circle HAMBURG PAID on 9 sch on the 1859 issue. Sold 1,300 SF in 2002.
Oval HAMBURG in use since 1860, dated here 1863.	Oval HAMBURG on first stamp, dated 1864.	Side oval postmark in 1866.
Blue DC in 1866.	Blue Antiqua DC in 1867.	Blue Grotesk DC HAMBURG ST P. in 1867 on a cover.

Covers

Buckle type cancel & 3 rings 1 (Denmark) on 26 February 1859.	Buckle type cancel & 4 lines on 19 March 1860.
1.5 sch, DC HAMBURG ST.P. & 4 lines on 2 January 1867.

Kingdom of Hanover post office

A Kingdom of Hanover post office was opened in 1684, and operated until June 1866.

Blue DC in use since 1856.

File:Hamburg (DE) HAN b.jpg

Kingdom of Prussia post office

A Kingdom of Prussia post office was opened in ?, and operated until June 1866. It used code 578.

4 rings 578

DC HAMBURG on the 1856 issue.

DC HAMBURG expedition 8-9A on the 1857 issue.

DC with year 1866 on a 1861 issue.

Railway station

Pair DC HAMBURG BAHNHOF on a 1858 issue.

Kingdom of Denmark post office

see Hamburg K.D.O.P.A. (DE)