GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC / DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK.

500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Müntzer.
Map with the most representative locations in the life of Müntzer.
Minisheet issued on 21.03.1989.
Face value: 110 East German pfennig.
Design: Gerhard Schmidt.
Printed by Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (VEB), Leipzig.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 2,100,000 copies.
Size: 86 x 66 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. BL97.
- Scott No. 2736.
- StampWorld No. 2979.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MSE2938.
- Unificato No. BF97.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF96.

Thomas Müntzer (1489 or 1490 – May 27, 1525) was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising of 1525 commonly known as the German Peasants' War. He was captured after the Battle of Frankenhausen, tortured and executed.