List of people on the postage stamps of Germany

This is a list of people on postage stamps of Germany.

(regular issues complete through 2015)

A[]

• Adalbert of Prague (1997)
• Konrad Adenauer (1968, 1976, 1988, 1992)
• Theodor W. Adorno (2003)
• Hans Albers (1991)
• Albertus Magnus (1961, 1980)
• Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht (2012 as member of Göttingen Seven)
• Albrecht Altdorfer (1980)
• Stefan Andres (2006)
• Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1988)
• Thomas Aquinas (1974)
• Hannah Arendt (1988, 2006)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt (1969)
• Karl Arnold (2001)
• Cosmas Damian Asam (1989)
• Egid Quirin Asam (1992)
• Augustus II the Strong (2010) source
• Cilly Aussem (1988)

B[]

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1926, 1935, 1961, 1985, 2000)
• Leo Baeck (1957)
• Hans Baldung (1985)
• Albert Ballin (1957)
• Karl Barth (1986)
• Willi Baumeister (1989)
• Gertrud Bäumer (1974)
• Pina Bausch (2015)
• August Bebel (1988)
• Ludwig Beck (1964)
• Max Beckmann (1974, 2003)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1926, 1959, 1961, 1970)
• Emil von Behring (1954, 2004)
• Elly Beinhorn (2010)
• Pope Benedict XVI (2007)
• Benedict of Nursia (1980)
• Johann Albrecht Bengel (1987)
• Karl Benz (1936)
• Werner Bergengruen (1992)
• Götz von Berlichingen (1980)
• Bernward of Hildesheim (1960)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1984)
• Hildegard von Bingen (1979)
• Otto von Bismarck (1965, 2015)
• Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1992)
• Hans Böckler (1975)
• Arnold Bode (2000)
• Friedrich von Bodelschwingh (1950, 1967, 1977, 1996)
• Elisabet Boehm (1991)
• Eugen Bolz (2006)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1964, 1995)
• Saint Boniface (1954, 2004)
• Katharina von Bora (1999)
• Wolfgang Borchert (1996)
• Jorge Luis Borges (2010)
• Max Born (1982)
• Johann Friedrich Böttger (1981, 2010 source )
• Johannes Brahms (1983)
• Elsa Brändström (1964)
• Willy Brandt (1993, 2013)
• Bertolt Brecht (1998)
• Clemens Brentano (1978)
• Anton Bruckner (1996)
• Martin Buber (1978)
• Gerd Bucerius (2006)
• Martin Bucer (2001)
• Erich Buchholz (1991)
• Georg Büchner (2013)
• Wilhelm Busch (1958, 1982, 2007)
• Dieterich Buxtehude (1987)

C[]

• John Calvin (1964, 2009)
• Karl Carstens (1983)
• Charlie Chaplin (2001)
• Winston Churchill (1968)
• Matthias Claudius (1990)
• Carl von Clausewitz (1981)
• John Amos Comenius (1970)
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1973)
• Lovis Corinth (2008)
• Pierre de Coubertin (1968)
• Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1992)
• Lucas Cranach the Elder (1972)
• Lucas Cranach the Younger (2015)
• Nicolaus Cusanus (1958)

D[]

• Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (2012 as member of Göttingen Seven)
• Gottlieb Daimler (1936, 2009)
• Dante Alighieri (1971)
• Thomas Dehler (1997)
• Alfred Delp (1964)
• Carl Diem (1968)
• Marlene Dietrich (1997)
• Rudolf Diesel (1958, 1997)
• Hugo Distler (1992)
• Otto Dix (1991)
• Hans von Dohnányi (2002)
• Marion Gräfin Dönhoff (2009)
• Hedwig Dransfeld (1988)
• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1961, 2002)
• Louise Dumont (1976), actress and theatre director
• Henri Dunant (1952)
• Albrecht Dürer (1926, 1961, 1971, 2006)

E[]

• Friedrich Ebert (1928, 1971, 2000)
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1980)
• Werner Egk (2001)
• Paul Ehrlich (1954, 2004)
• Joseph von Eichendorff (1957, 1987)
• Egon Eiermann (2004)
• Johann Andreas Eisenbarth (1977)
• Albert Einstein (2005)
• St Elizabeth of Thuringia (1949, 1961, 1981, 2007)
• Georg Elser (2003)
• Adam Elsheimer (2007)
• Friedrich Engels (1970)
• Heinz Erhardt (2009)
• Ludwig Erhard (1987, 1997)
• Max Ernst (1991)
• Dorothea Erxleben (1987)
• Matthias Erzberger (1975)
• Walter Eucken (1991)
• Heinrich Ewald (2012 as member of Göttingen Seven )

F[]

• Hans Fallada (1993)
• Johann Georg Faust (1979)
• Josef Felder (2002)
• Anselm Feuerbach (1980)
• Ludwig Feuerbach (2004)
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte (2012)
• Theodor Fliedner (1952)
• Marieluise Fleißer (2001)
• Gorch Fock (1980)
• Theodor Fontane (1994)
• Birger Forell (1993)
• Gertrud von Le Fort (1975)
• Werner Forßmann (2006)
• Francis of Assisi (1982)
• James Franck (1982)
• August Hermann Francke (1953, 2013)
• Anne Frank (1979)
• Joseph von Fraunhofer (1987, 2012)
• Frederick the Great (1926, 1933, 1986, 2012)
• Frederick II (1994)
• Frederick William I (1995)
• Caspar David Friedrich (1974, 2011)
• Gert Fröbe (2000)
• Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1949)
• Elizabeth Fry (1952)
• Leonhart Fuchs (2001)
• Jakob Fugger (1959)

G[]

• Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1989)
• Jean Gabin (2001)
• Clemens August Graf von Galen (1966, 1996)
• Mohandas Gandhi (1969)
• Greta Garbo (2001)
• Alcide de Gasperi (1968)
• Charles de Gaulle (1988)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1955, 1977)
• Heinrich George (1993)
• Paul Gerhardt (1957, 1976, 2007)
• Georg Gottfried Gervinus (2012 as member of Göttingen Seven )
• Therese Giehse (1988)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1987)
• Leopold Gmelin (1988)
• Gotthard of Hildesheim (1960)
• Karl Goerdeler (1964)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1926, 1961, 1982, 1999)
• Hans Grade (2008)
• Jacob Grimm (1959, 1985, 2012 as member of Göttingen Seven )
• Wilhelm Grimm (1959, 1985, 2012 as member of Göttingen Seven )
• Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1976)
• Bernhard Grzimek (2009)
• Romano Guardini (1985)
• Otto von Guericke (1936, 2002)
• Johann Gutenberg (1940, 1961, 2000)

H[]

• Friedrich Joseph Haass (1980)
• Samuel Hahnemann (1955)
• George Frideric Handel (1935, 1959, 1985)
• Rudolf Harbig (1968)
• Wilhelm Hauff (1977)
• Gerhart Hauptmann (1961, 1978, 1987, 2012)
•  [de] (1998), writer
• Joseph Haydn (1959)
• Friedrich Hebbel (2013)
• Johann Peter Hebel (1985)
• Erich Heckel (1974)
• Saint Hedwig (1993)
• Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1970)
• Heinrich Heine (1956, 1972, 1997)
• Gustav Heinemann (1970–1972 (definitive series), 1983, 1999)
• Werner Heisenberg (2001)
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1994)
• Henry the Lion (1995)
• Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (1989)
• Sepp Herberger (1997)
• Johann Gottfried Herder (1994)
• Andreas Hermes (2003)
• Heinrich Hertz (1957, 1994)
• Hermann Hesse (1978, 2002)
• Theodor Heuss (1954–1959 (definitive series), 1983, 2009)
• Elly Heuss-Knapp (1981)
• Hildegard von Bingen (1998)
• Paul Hindemith (1995)
• Paul von Hindenburg (1928)
• Rahel Hirsch (2013)
• Adolf Hitler (1941)
• Heinrich Hoffmann (1994, 2009)
• Cardinal Joseph Höffner (2006)
• August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1991)
• Hans Holbein (1974)
• Friedrich Hölderlin (1970, 1993)
• Buddy Holly (1988)
• Adolf Hölzel (2003)
• Arthur Honegger (1992)
• Ricarda Huch (1975, 2014)
• Alexander von Humboldt (1959)
• Engelbert Humperdinck (2004)
• Ulrich von Hutten (1988)

I[]

• Emma Ihrer (1989)

J[]

• Wenzel Jamnitzer (2008)
• Alexej von Jawlensky (1974)
• Eugen Jochum (2002)
• Pope John XXIII (1969)
• Pope John Paul II (1987, 2005)
• Hans Jonas (2003)
• Marie Juchacz (1969, 2003)
• Ernst Jünger (1998)
• Curd Jürgens (2000)

K[]

• Franz Kafka (1983, 2008)
• Wilhelm Kaisen (1987)
• Jakob Kaiser (1988)
• Immanuel Kant (1926, 1961, 1974)
• Angelika Kauffmann (2010)
• Helmut Käutner (2008)
• John F. Kennedy (1964)
• Thomas à Kempis (1971)
• Josef Kentenich (1985)
• Johannes Kepler (1971)
• Wilhelm Emmanuel, Baron von Ketteler (1961, 1977)
• Kurt Georg Kiesinger (2004)
• Saint Kilian (1989)
• Esther von Kirchbach (2002)
• Egon Erwin Kisch (1985)
• Paul Klee (1979)
• Erich Klausener (1945, 1984)
• Heinrich von Kleist (1961, 2002)
• Jochen Klepper (1992)
• Paul Klinger (2007)
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1974)
• Matthias Klotz (1993)
• Sebastian Kneipp (1953, 1997)
• Hildegard Knef (2002)
• Adolph Freiherr Knigge (2002)
• Robert Koch (1982, 2005)
• Helmut Kohl (2012)
• Oskar Kokoschka (1986)
• Annette Kolb (1975)
• Maximilian Kolbe (1973)
• Käthe Kollwitz (1954, 1996, 2002)
• Saint Kolonat (1989)
• Adolph Kolping (1955, 1965, 2000)
• Janusz Korczak (1978)
• Hermine Körner (1976), actress, film and theatre director
• Theodor Körner (1991)

L[]

• Selma Lagerlöf (2008)
• Wilhelm August Lampadius (1991), metallurgist, chemist and agronomist
• Helene Lange (1974)
• Carl Freiherr von Langen (1968)
• Carl Gotthard Langhans (2007)
• Ferdinand Lassalle (1964)
• Else Lasker-Schüler (1975)
• Julius Leber (1991)
• Lotte Lehmann (1989)
• Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1974)
• Gottfried Leibniz (1926, 1966, 1980, 1996)
• Ludwig Leichhardt (2013)
• Hans Leip (1993) poet, writer of Lili Marleen
• Karl Leisner (2015)
• John Lennon (1988)
• Gotthold Lessing (1926, 1961)
• Wilhelm Leuschner (1964, 1990)
• Justus von Liebig (1953, 2003)
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1992)
• Otto Lilienthal (1991)
• Paul Lincke (1996)
• Astrid Lindgren (2007)
• Friedrich List (1989)
• Franz Liszt (1986, 2011)
• Wilhelm Löhe (1972)
• Friedrich Loeffler, Friedrich Loeffler Institute (2010)
• Albert Lortzing (2001)
• Heinrich Lübke (1964, 1967, 1983)
• Adolf Lüderitz (1934)
• Marie Elisabeth Lüders (1969, 1997)
• Ludgerus (1992)
• Luise von Preußen (1989)
• Ludwig II (1986)
• Luise Henriette von Oranien (1994)
• Martin Luther (1952, 1961, 1983, 1996)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1974)

M[]

• August Macke (1974, 2014)
• Reinhold Maier (1989)
• Golo Mann (2009)
• Thomas Mann (1956, 1978)
• Franz Marc (1974)
• Guglielmo Marconi (1995)
• Gerhard Marcks (1989)
• George Marshall (1960)
• Karl Marx (1968)
• Karl May (1987)
• Helene Mayer (1968)
• Rupert Mayer (1988)
• Lise Meitner (1988)
• Gerhard Mercator (2012)
• Philipp Melanchthon (1960, 1997)
• Gregor Johann Mendel (1983)
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1959, 1997, 2009)
• Adolph Menzel (2012)
• Maria Sibylla Merian (1987)
• Gerardus Mercator (2012)
• Michelangelo (1975)
• Agnes Miegel (1979)
• Oskar von Miller (1955)
• Paula Modersohn-Becker (1988, 1996)
• Helmuth James von Moltke (1964, 2007)
• Jean Monnet (1977, 1988)
• Marilyn Monroe (2001)
• Claudio Monteverdi (1993)
• Eduard Mörike (1975, 2004)
• Jim Morrison (1988)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1956, 1991, 2006)
• Ferdinand von Mueller (1996)
• Baron von Münchhausen (1970)

N[]

• Gustav Nachtigal (1934)
• Fridtjof Nansen (1953)
• Ernst Wilhelm Nay (2002)
• John of Nepomuk (1993)
• Friederike Caroline Neuber (1976), actress
• Balthasar Neumann (1961, 1987)
• Isaac Newton (1993)
• Martin Niemöller (1992)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (2000)
• Florence Nightingale (1955)
• Alfred Nobel (1995)
• Norbert of Xanten (1984)
• Felix Nussbaum (2004)

O[]

• Johann Friedrich Oberlin (1954)
• Erich Ollenhauer (2001)
• Franz Oppenheimer (1961)
• Carl Orff (1995)
• Carl von Ossietzky (1975)
• Nicolaus Otto (1952)
• Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (2012)

P[]

• Lilli Palmer (2000)
• Gret Palucca (1998)
• Bertha Pappenheim (1954)
• Paracelsus (1949, 1993)
• Vincent de Paul (1950)
• Louise Otto-Peters (1974)
• Karl Peters (1934)
• Hans Pfitzner (1994)
• Pope Pius XII (1984)
• Max Planck (2008)
• Elvis Presley (1988)
• Maria Probst (1997)

Q[]

• Ludwig Quidde (1975)

R[]

• Wilhelm Raabe (1981)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1958, 1988)
• Günther Ramin (1998)
• Leopold von Ranke (1995)
• Johannes Rau (2006)
• Max Reger (1991)
• Max Reinhardt (1993)
• Philipp Reis (1952, 1984)
• Rembrandt (2006)
• (1992), circus proprietor
• Fritz Reuter (1985, 2010)
• Ludwig Richter (1984)
• (1994), union activist and politician
• Adam Riese (1959, 1992)
• Tilman Riemenschneider (1981)
• Rainer Maria Rilke (2000)
• Joachim Ringelnatz (2008)
• Johann August Röbling (2006)
• Wilhelm Röntgen (1951, 1995)
• Roswitha of Gandersheim (1973)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1977, 2004)
• Heinz Rühmann (2000)
• Phillip Otto Runge (1977)

S[]

• Hans Sachs (1976, 1994)
• Nelly Sachs (1991, 2001)
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince (2014)
• Alice Salomon (1989)
• (1995), catholic activist, founder of the "Kindermissionswerk"
• Johann Gottfried Schadow (2014)
• Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1992)
• Walter Scheel (1983)
• Philipp Scheidemann (2015)
• Wilhelm Schickard (1973)
• Friedrich von Schiller (1926, 1934, 1955, 1961, 2009)
• Oskar Schindler (2008)
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (2006)
• Johann Conrad Schlaun (1995), architect
• Heinrich Schliemann (1990)
• Max Schmeling (2005)
• Carlo Schmid (1996)
• Joseph Schmidt (2004)
• Paul Schneider (1989)
• Reinhold Schneider (2003)
• Romy Schneider (2000)
• Sophie Scholl (1964, 1991)
• Martin Schongauer (1991)
• Helmut Schön (2015)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1988)
• Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1978), writer, poet, architect and painter
• Sophie Schröder (1976)
• Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1958, 2008)
• Franz Schubert (1997)
• Kurt Schumacher (1972, 1995)
• Robert Schuman (French politician) (1968)
• Clara Schumann (1986)
• Robert Schumann (German composer) (1956, 2010)
• Carl Schurz (1952, 1976)
• Heinrich Schütz (1935, 1972)
• Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (2004)
• Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1997)
• Albert Schweitzer (1975, 2000)
• Kurt Schwitters (1987)
• Elisabeth Selbert (1987)
• Ignaz Semmelweis (1956)
• Gottfried Semper (2003)
• Johann Christian Senckenberg (1953, 2007), physician, scientist and benefactor
• Alois Senefelder (1972)
• Philipp Franz von Siebold (1996)
• Werner von Siemens (1966, 1992)
• (1955), social activist
• Friedrich Silcher (1989)
• Nathan Söderblom (1966)
• Carl Sonnenschein (1952, 1975)
• Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (1990)
• Philipp Jakob Spener (1985)
• Carl Spitzweg (1985, 2008)
• Louis Spohr (1959)
• Axel Springer (2012)
• Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (1964, 2007)
• Charlotte von Stein (1992)
• Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (2007)
• Edith Stein (1983, 1988)
• Heinrich vom Stein (1957)
• Heinrich von Stephan (1924, 1947, 1949, 1956, 1984, 1997)
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1994)
• Adalbert Stifter (1955, 2005)
• Theodor Storm (1988)
• Johann Strauß (Sohn) (1999)
• Franz Josef Strauß (1995)
• Richard Strauss (1999, 2014)
• Gustav Stresemann (1975)
• Käte Strobel (2000)
• Bertha von Suttner (1991, 2005)

T[]

• Franz von Taxis (1967)
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1981)
• Mother Teresa (2010)
• Gerhard Tersteegen (1997)
• Christine Teusch (1986)
• (1991), evangelical activist, founder of the German Evangelical Church Assembly
• Albrecht Thaer (2002)
• Ludwig Thoma (1996)
• Giovanni Batista Tiepolo (1996)
• Saint Totnan (1989)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1993)

V[]

• Karl Valentin (2007)
• Rahel Varnhagen von Ense (1994)
• Leonardo da Vinci (1942, 1952)
• Vincent de Paul (1995)
• Cecile Vogt (1989)
• Johann Heinrich Voss (2001)

W[]

• Richard Wagner (2013)
• Martin Waldseemüller (2007)
• Paul Wallot (1991)
• Otto Heinrich Warburg (1983)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1976, 1986)
• Helene Weber (1969)
• Wilhelm Eduard Weber (2012 as member of Göttingen Seven)
• (1949), merchant
• Herbert Wehner (2000)
• Kurt Weill (2000)
• Grethe Weiser (2000)
• Otto Wels (1973)
• Franz Werfel (1995)
• Jan van Werth (1991)
• Lorenz Werthmann (1954, 2008), catholic social activist
• Johann Hinrich Wichern (1949, 2008), theologican, evangelist, founder of the "Inner Mission (Germany)"
• Emil Wiechert (2011)
• Ernst Wiechert (2000)
• Christoph Martin Wieland (1983)
• Mary Wigman (1986)
• Ludwig Windthorst (1991)
• Hermann von Wissmann (1934)
• Friedrich Wöhler (1982)
• Saint Wolfgang (1994)

Z[]

• Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1992)
• Heinrich Zille (2008)
• Dominikus Zimmermann (1985)
• Nikolaus Ludwig Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf (2000)
• Carl Zuckmayer (1996)
• Konrad Zuse (2010)