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Europe/Germany : Karl Hennig In Hot Water With Fellow Nazis

 

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Stampme

11 Feb 2016
11:33:26pm
I've been keeping an eye out for a cover solely franked with the NSDAP franchise stamps that German stamp dealer Karl Hennig used on some covers he prepared during the Anschluss period in 1938. Covers can be found with these franchise stamps mixed with Austrian and German stamps but I wanted a cover franked with just the improper usage of the NSDAP stamps; I finally found one. This cover was mailed to Hennig in Hamburg, Germany.

This cover bears the cachet showing a map with Germany and Austria joined by sowing thread or possibly hooks. The cover also bears a single-line handstamp: Am 10.4.38 dem Führer dein Ja! (Your yes for the fuhrer on April 10, 1938!) April 10 was the day for the plebiscite vote to decide if Austrians wanted to join with Germany. There is a faint violet NSKK (Nazi Transportation Corps) swastika handstamp that ties the air mail etiquette. The cover was postmarked in Innsbruck, Austria on the vote date. Hennig was a member of the NSKK.

Hennig was upbraided in a Third Reich magazine article, printed after the Anschluss period, by fellow Nazi Party members who felt that he had crossed a line by affixing NSDAP stamps on covers for his commercial ventures. Some members felt that his commercial usage not only broke postal rules but likely they felt that their placement on his covers cheapened the image of the party.

Apparently, the fallout between Hennig and these NSDAP high-ranking members did not affect Hennig's continued, prodigious output of colorful, philatelic covers, at least until 1944. I have never seen any Third Reich Hennig covers postmarked 1945.

If anyone knows how many employees worked for Hennig, I would appreciate hearing those numbers. I suspect that his Nazi Party membership opened many doors that would have remained closed to a stamp dealer who was not a Nazi Party member.

During WWII, many would argue that Hennig crossed another line, producing covers with stamps from Germany mixed with Italian, Channel Islands, occupied Poland and elsewhere, mixed on covers that were not officially recognized by the postal authorities for commercial or Feldpost mail.

Some collectors would state without equivocation that such covers were fantasy items or solely produced for collectors with no philatelic legitimacy. I pick up these covers for little money with the proverbial grain of salt, magnified many times.

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Stampme

11 Feb 2016
11:33:26pm

I've been keeping an eye out for a cover solely franked with the NSDAP franchise stamps that German stamp dealer Karl Hennig used on some covers he prepared during the Anschluss period in 1938. Covers can be found with these franchise stamps mixed with Austrian and German stamps but I wanted a cover franked with just the improper usage of the NSDAP stamps; I finally found one. This cover was mailed to Hennig in Hamburg, Germany.

This cover bears the cachet showing a map with Germany and Austria joined by sowing thread or possibly hooks. The cover also bears a single-line handstamp: Am 10.4.38 dem Führer dein Ja! (Your yes for the fuhrer on April 10, 1938!) April 10 was the day for the plebiscite vote to decide if Austrians wanted to join with Germany. There is a faint violet NSKK (Nazi Transportation Corps) swastika handstamp that ties the air mail etiquette. The cover was postmarked in Innsbruck, Austria on the vote date. Hennig was a member of the NSKK.

Hennig was upbraided in a Third Reich magazine article, printed after the Anschluss period, by fellow Nazi Party members who felt that he had crossed a line by affixing NSDAP stamps on covers for his commercial ventures. Some members felt that his commercial usage not only broke postal rules but likely they felt that their placement on his covers cheapened the image of the party.

Apparently, the fallout between Hennig and these NSDAP high-ranking members did not affect Hennig's continued, prodigious output of colorful, philatelic covers, at least until 1944. I have never seen any Third Reich Hennig covers postmarked 1945.

If anyone knows how many employees worked for Hennig, I would appreciate hearing those numbers. I suspect that his Nazi Party membership opened many doors that would have remained closed to a stamp dealer who was not a Nazi Party member.

During WWII, many would argue that Hennig crossed another line, producing covers with stamps from Germany mixed with Italian, Channel Islands, occupied Poland and elsewhere, mixed on covers that were not officially recognized by the postal authorities for commercial or Feldpost mail.

Some collectors would state without equivocation that such covers were fantasy items or solely produced for collectors with no philatelic legitimacy. I pick up these covers for little money with the proverbial grain of salt, magnified many times.

BruceImage Not Found

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