Mi.2 (10.07.1942/1943) Feldpost Permission stamp

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Parcel label (detached) sent from Chemnitz to a soldier at FPN 17468 (Heavy Artillery Division 816: the feldpost number appears to date the label in early/mid 1942. In the winter of 41/42 the detachment was deployed around Rzhev - possibly Khoroshevo, Kowalevo, Zaytsevo). Featuring a permission stamp for feldpost packages (Mi.1 A - perforated). Ref: 16/6

The chronology for the Division (with three batteries of 21 cm mortars): 24th Jul 1940, 12th Army, Army Group C 1st Army; 6th Nov 1940, assigned to XXXXIX Corps/1st Army, Army Group D; 23rd Mar 1941, transferred from 1st Army, Army Group D to Army Group B; 22nd Jun - 10th Jul 1941 LVII Corps (Mot.), 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center; 30th Jul 1941 LVII Corps (Mot.), 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center (planned); 13th - 28th Jul 1941 LVII Corps (Mot.), 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center; 16th Aug 1941, Demyansk, Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North?; 21st Aug 1941 near 19th Panzer Division, LVII Corps (Mot.), 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Centre]; 29th Sep 1941 9th Army and 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Centre; 24th Dec 41 9th Army, Army Group Centre / near Rzhev; 3rd Jan 42 XXIII Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Centre; 11th Jan - 9th Feb 1942 VI Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Centre; 8th Mar 1942 VI Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Centre w/o 3rd Bat./; 7th Apr 1942, XXIII Corps, 9th Army XXXXVI Corps (Mot.), 9th Army, Army Group Centre w/o 2nd Bat./ XXVII Corps, 9th Army; 10th May 1942 XXVII Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Centre; Jul 1942, 9th ArmyArmy Group Centre; 8th Aug 42 VI Corps, Army Group Centre w/o 2nd Bat./ assigned to XXXIX Panzer Corps, 9th Army; 19th Oct 1942 XXVIII Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Centre; 12th Sep 1943 3rd Bat./ XXVII Corps, 4th Army, Army Group Centre; June 1944 Vitebsk; 16th July 1944, 1. Bat./, LV-Corps, 2. Army, /// 2. Bat./ and 3. Bat./, XXVI Corps, 3. Panzer Army Army Group Center]; 22nd Sep 1944 XXXIX Panzer Corps, 3. Panzer Army, Army Group Center with 4 x 21 cm mortars and 4 sFH; 1944 / 45 3. Panzer Army in East Prussia. (Source for all military information: Forum.Der.Wehrmacht.De)

Mi.2

Concession/permission stamp for field post packages

Notes: Design: Gerhard Marggraff. Typographic printing. Sheets 4 x 100. Without watermark. Perf. 13¾:14 (1942); Serrated roulette (1943). Quantity issued: unknown (Mi.2 was also available for 50 Pf at the collector's counter of the Reichspost, but only cancelled with a field post cancel.). Valid until ?

Only parcels bearing these concession labels were accepted by the post office for feldpost. The first 250 gms. were free, 250 - 1000 gms. required 20 Pf postage [see image above]. From 1st September 1942 the weight limit was raised to 2000 gms. The fee for 1000 - 2000 gms. was 40 Pf postage and two concession labels. After 23rd June 1944 the maximum weight for parcels was reduced to 100 gms (western front 20 gms). One concession stamp was required for packages from 20 - 100 gms.

From 10th June 1942 to 31st August 1942, one label per month was issued to each soldier, from 1st September 1942 to autumn of 1944 two labels per month. The soldier had to send these labels home for them to be use on their parcels.

By temporarily abandoning the distribution or handing out of additional stamps the number of packages could be adjusted to available transport capacity

Parcels from the front did not require a label, and up to 250 gms. was free of charge, after which postage had to be paid.

Source: Michel Specialised; Harper & Scheck

Gerhard Marggraff

Gerhard Marggraff (1892 - after 1956) was a German commercial artist, type designer and painter. Little is known about Gerhard Marggraff. He lived as a painter and commercial artist in Berlin until 1945 and then in Kochel am See. Marggraff worked as a commercial artist for various companies. He designed advertisements for film, theater, carnival, athletics, shipping, men's and women's clothing, leather goods, milk, and coffee. He also created several typefaces (Marggraff-Deutsch 1939, and the script typeface Marggraff Kursiv,1928, followed by Marggraff Kursiv Zarte and Marggraff Light Italic in 1929). During the Nazi era, he also received orders for postage stamps. In 1944, Marggraff was on the list of those blessed by God of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

Source: Wikipedia

Mi.2 A (Perforated). Ref: 16/6. It is noted that Michel Specialised states that prices 'on cover' are for package addresses with complete data for sender and recipient. Large cut outs with one piece of information (sender or recipient) are worth only 30% of a complete package address.

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