Sunday Stamps | A Is for Anneke & Aussem

Welcome to a new alphabet round in Sunday Stamps! For this new A-Z round I am (again!) showing stamps dedicated to women, among those that I have received. Starting with A...

Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817 – 1884) was a German writer, feminist, and radical democrat who participated in the Revolutions of 1848–1849. In 1849, she moved to the United States, where she campaigned to end slavery, agitated to enfranchise women, and ran a girls' school.

Cilly Aussem (1909 – 1963) was a German tennis player. She was the first German, male or female, to win the singles title at Wimbledon,  in 1931.

Both stamps were issued in 1998, and belong to the series Frauen der deutschen Geschichte (='Women in German history'), a definitive stamp series issued in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin from 1986 to 1990, and in reunited Germany 1990 to 2003.