Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic (German: Ministerium für Post- und Fernmeldewesen der DDR) was a ministry in the Council of Ministers of East Germany responsible for telecommunications and post topics.
Letter from the Central Postal Administration to the trade union, 1948
The Central Administration attempted to establish a regular postal service during the politically charged occupation period. Even minor delivery problems were influenced by major politics. On January 26, 1948, trade union official Hans Jendretzky complained to his colleague Schröder in the Central Administration that a letter to the state executive committee of the Free German Trade Union Federation in Potsdam, mistakenly addressed to Schopenhauerstrasse 22 instead of 27, had been returned to the sender with the note: "Occupied by Russians". In the letter, Jendretzky urged that mail carriers be required to avoid such actions because of the "effect of such notices on residents of the western zones."[2]
↑ Hans Hübner: Die Minister für Post- und Fernmeldewesen der DDR, in: Das Archiv 2/2012, herausgegeben von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Post- und Telekommunikationsgeschichte, S. 54 ff. ISSN 1611-0838
East Germany
East Germany