GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC / DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK.

International Meteorological Assembly, Leipzig.
Map of Northern Europe and anemometer.
Minisheet issued on 23.03.1972.
Face value: 20 East Germany pfennig.
Design: Manfred Gottschall (b. 1937).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 2,500,000 copies.
Size: 85 x 57 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. A1495.
- Michel No. BL34.
- Scott No. 1382.
- StampWorld No. 1487.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MSE1465a.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF29.

The First International Meteorological Congress held in Vienna in September 1873. it met four times: in 1873 in Vienna, in 1874 in Utrecht, in 1876 in London and in 1878 again in Utrecht. In Utrecht, in 1878, the charter of the organization was finalized and the International Meteorological Organization (IMO) founded. The World Meteorological Convention came into force on March 23, 1950. The last congress was held in Paris in 1951, just before the First World Meteorological Organization WMO Congress, in order to dissolve IMO and to transfer its responsibilities to the new organization.