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1917 Graudenz - Poland (German Empire) Military Dental Clinic Feldpost se-tenant
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1917 German Feldpost Card from medical service soldier at the Graudenz Military Hospital Dental Clinic to Zurich, Poland to Switzerland, with se-tenant vertical pair of Germania design 2½ pfg. & 7½ pfg. affixed and canceled 19 June 1917 ("GRAUDENZ / 19 6 ... Read More
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- Country
- Poland
- Condition
- Used
- Stamp Format
- Single
- Year of Issue
- 1917
Item Description
1917 German Feldpost Card from medical service soldier at the Graudenz Military Hospital Dental Clinic to Zurich, Poland to Switzerland, with se-tenant vertical pair of Germania design 2½ pfg. & 7½ pfg. affixed and canceled 19 June 1917 ("GRAUDENZ / 19 6 17 / 6-7 N / 1"). SPECIFIC MARKINGS FOR THE DENTAL CLINIC ARE HAND-STAMPED IN PURPLE AND READ: "FESTUNGS-LAZARETT / ZAHNSTATION / GRAUDENZ." (Military Hospital Dental Clinic Graudenz). It was sent by SANIT. SOLDAT [_Sanitätssoldat_] / LEOPOLD LORRACH / LAGARETT 13 / GRAUDENZ (Medical Soldier Leopold Lorrach, Hospital 13, Graudenz). Scans are of the actual item.Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Graudenz (Grudziądz in Polish) was annexed by the German Kingdom of Prussia. In 1776, a decision was made to build a fortress in the town. During the Napoleonic invasion in Prussia in 1806-1807, the fortress was successfully defended by General of Infantry Wilhelm René de l'Homme de Courbière against attacks by French troops. A second colonization wave of ethnic Germans was pursued by Prussia after 1832. Laws were passed aimed at Germanisation of the Polish inhabited areas and 154,000 colonists were settled by the Prussian Settlement Commission before World War I. In 1871, Graudenz became part of the unified German Empire.
To resist Germanisation, local Polish activists started to publish the newspaper "Gazeta Grudziądzka" in 1894. It advocated the social and economical emancipation of rural Polish speaking society and opposed Germanization – publishing articles critical of Germany. The German attempts to repress its editor Wiktor Kulerski only helped to increase its circulation. From 1898 to 1901, a secret society of Polish students seeking to restore Polish independence operated in the city, but the activists were tried by German courts in 1901, frustrating their efforts. German soldiers were stationed in the local Graudenz fortress (including its medical hospitals) as part of the Germanization measures. We cannot say for the sender of this Feldpost, but the authorities did place soldiers with the most chauvinistic attitude towards the Poles in Graudenz. By 1913, the Polish _Gazeta Grudziądzka _reached a circulation of 128,000, making it the third largest Polish newspaper in the world. Until 1920, Graudenz belonged to the administrative district of Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder in the Province of West Prussia. Post World War I, the Treaty of Versailles became effective on 23 January 1920, and the Polish Corridor had been arranged in a newly reborn Polish state (Second Polish Republic), thus Graudenz was incorporated under its Polish name Grudziądz into the new Second Polish Republic.
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