by
Jerry H. Miller
This postal history exhibit, organized chronologically, shows the origin of German presence in China, German military buildup and activity as a result of the Boxer Uprising, the subsequent occupation period, and concludes with the end of German military and postal presence in China in 1917.
Since there are so many pages to this exhibit, we have added Table of Contents at the bottom of this web page.
II. Title, Map & Exhibit Summary Page
Opening of German Postal Agency at Shanghai 1886
Shanghai Agency: Pfennig Series: Registered Consular Mail to Sweden
Shanghai Agency: Crown & Eagle Series, Business Mail
Shanghai Post Office, Package Card Covering Three Gold Shipments
Double-Franking: Peking-Shanghai-Germany Mail
Tientsin Postal Agency: Three-Color Bank Mail to USA
Tientsin Postal Agency: Registered Printed Matter and Commercial Sample Mail Tag
Kiautschou Territory Leasehold
Kiautschou, Tsintanfort Naval Fieldpost
Kiautschou, Tsingtau Registered Mail
III. Marine Detachment Mail, Peking Siege
Ditto, Relief of Tientsin, 13 July 1900
Naval Mail Office Berlin: Mail to China
Ditto: Redirected & Returned Mail
Ditto: Redirected & Returned Mail, Yellow Advice Labels
Naval Expeditionary Corps, 2 July-15 August 1900
IV. East Asiatic Expeditionary Corps, Formation, First Convoy, August 1900
Ditto, First Convoy to China, MSP 27 & 28
Ditto, First Convoy to China, MSP 50 & 64
Ditto, First Convoy to China, Mail to Bavarian Infantry Units
Ditto, First Convoy to China, Mail to an Army Officer aboard “NGL Phonicia” Odyssey Cover
Formation of the Second Convoy, Lehe, August 1900
Formation of the Second Convoy, Bremen, August 1900
Second Convoy to China, MSP 68 & 70
Second Convoy, MSP 70, Bavarian Infantry Regiment
Second Convoy to China, MSP 71 & 72
Provisional Field-Post .. Tongku, Type I
Provisional Field-Post .. Tongku, Type I, Paymaster HMS Jaguar
Provisional Field-Post .. Tongku, Type II
Provisional Field Post .. Tongku, Type III
Tientsin Base Postmarks Ia & Ib, September-November 1900
Tientsin Base Postmark Ib, Art Card, New Year’s Greetings 7 November 1900 = First Day Usage
Tientsin Base Postmark IIa, Registered Mail to Germany
Tientsin Base Postmark IIa, “Mandarin Covers”
Tientsin Base Postmark IIa, Military Hospital Tientsin
Tientsin Base Postmark IIa, RM 3.00 Soldier’s Out-Bound Telegram
Tientsin Base Postmark IIa, In-Bound Field Telegram Form-Cards
Tientsin Base Postmark IIa, Soldier-Soldier Mail
Tientsin Base Postmark IIb, Fieldpost Mail to Germany Re-Directed to Switzerland
Tientsin Base Postmark IIb, Fieldpost Cover & Form Card Examples
Peking Station Fieldpost, Type I Softwood
Ditto, Marine Paymaster Mail to HMS Wőrth
Peking Station Fieldpost, Type II Hardwood
Ditto, Marine’s Mail Written at Royal Palace
War-Front & Home-Front Propaganda Cards
Fieldpost Station 2: Peking, Graf von Waldersee
Fieldpost Station 2: Registered Mail
Fieldpost Station 2: Emperor’s Palace Supplementary Mark
Fieldpost Station 2: Headquarters 1st Marine Battalion .. Peking Legation
Fieldpost Station 2: Turn-Cover Germany-China-Germany
Fieldpost Station 2: Unit Validation Endorsement for Free-Franking Privilege
Fieldpost Station 2: Return Mail & Mandarin Cover
Mandarin Rice-Paper Letter Stationery (from aforementioned cover)
Fieldpost Station 2: Fieldpost Mail on Chinese Postal Stationery
Fieldpost Station No. 3: Mail to Germany
Fieldpost Station No. 4, ‘1900’ Examples
Fieldpost Station No. 4: ‘1901’ Examples
Fieldpost Station No. 5: First Day Usage with Form-Cards
Fieldpost Station No. 5: Germany-Bound Re-Directed, Inspected & Resealed Mail
FieldPost Station No. 6: Cover
Fieldpost Station No. 7: Mandarin Covers 1900
Fieldpost Station No. 7: Registered Mail & Money Transfer Receipt
Fieldpost Station No. 7: Paotingfu Supplemental Postmark
Fieldpost Station No. 7: Fieldpost Mail to France & Germany
Fieldpost Station No. 7: Chinese Post Office Mail Through the German Post Office
Fieldpost Station No. 8: Supplemental Postmark
Fieldpost Station No. 8: Registered Mail
Fieldpost Station No. 8: Mail Damaged in the Shanghai Post Office Fire in February 1901
Fieldpost Station No. 8: Postcard Fieldpost
Fieldpost Station No. 9: Postcard Fieldpost
Fieldpost Station No. 10: Postcard Fieldpost
Fieldpost Station No. 10: Value Letter Handled as Registered Mail
Fieldpost Postmarks on Postage Stamps .. 1900-1901
Mail to China from Germany, Inbound Parcel Post & Letter Mail
Fieldpost Mail Thru German Post Office at Hankau. Official Mail to HMS Lucks (Gunboat at Canton)
Fieldpost Mail from Langfang sent over German P.O. at Peking
Fieldpost Mail Through German Post Office at Peking, Registered Mail
Fieldpost Mail Through German Post Office at Shanghai
Fieldpost Mail through the German Post Office at Tongku
Fieldpost Mail through the German Post Office at Tschifu (Cheefoo)
Fieldpost Mail through the German Post Office “Kiautschou” Territory
Fieldpost Mail through the German Post Office at Tsingtau, Kiautschou Territory
Naval Field Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, Fieldpost
Ditto, Mail through the Japanese Post Office
Corps Field Hospital, Tientsin, China
Corps Field Hospital, Peking, China, Fieldpost
Corps Field Hospital, Peking, China, Money Transfer Form-Card
Corps Field Hospital, Peking, China, Souvenir View-Card
Hospital Ship “Gera”, Official Naval Mail
Hospital Ship “Wittekind” & “Savoia”
Return of Troops to Germany, “MSP13” & “MSP49”
Ditto, Support Ships, “Crefeld” & “MSP23”
Ditto, In-Bound Returned Mail, “Soldier Returning Home”
Ditto, Lockstedter & Muensterlager Military Bases
Ditto, Wilhlemshaven Provisional
Provisional Stamp Usages, Provisional Government Tientsin & Peking 1900-1902
Ditto, Provisional Government, Police Inspected In-bound Mail 1902
Provisional Stamp Usages: Type I, Mixed Crown & Eagle with Germania Franking
Ditto, Type II, Un-overprinted Germania Series, mail to German East Africa
Ditto, Type II, Registered double-weight silk-cover to Germany
Ditto, Type II, Value Letter (Left Side)
Ditto, Type II, Value Letter (Right Side)
Ditto, Type II, Registered postal card & cover to Germany
Ditto, Type II, Re-Directed Postal Stationery to England & Officer’s Mail to a Mail-Order House
Ditto, Type III, HOP Postal Stationery Card
Ditto, Type III, HOP Examples, 3-20 Pfg.
Ditto, Type III, HOP 2x 10 Pfg., Registered Cover
Ditto, Type IV, Kiautschou Issue Used at Peking
German Naval Ships in Chinese Waters, MSP 2, HMS Pisa Provisional
German Naval Ships in Chinese Waters, MSP 20, Gunboat HMS Illtis
Ditto, MSP 3, Gunboat HMS Luchs
Ditto, MSP 45, Gunboat HMS Jaguar
Ditto, MSP 38, Light Cruiser HMS Gefion
Ditto, MSP 11 HMS Seeadler & MSP 51 HMS Bussard, Light Cruisers
Ditto, MSP 36, Light Cruiser HMS Geier
Ditto, MSP 17, Light Cruiser HMS Schwalbe
Ditto, MSP 43, Heavy Cruiser HMS Bismarck
Ditto, MSP 15 HMS Kaiserin Augusta & MSP 46 HMS Hansa
Ditto, Mail to German Ships, Printed Matter from Shanghai
Occupation Period Mail, Langfang Military Base
Ditto, Peking Legation Cachet Marking
Ditto, Peking Legation Mail (Oversized Cover Left)
Ditto, Peking Legation Mail Oversized Cover (Right)
Ditto, Schanhaikuan Forerunner Postmark
Ditto, Schanhaikwan Dated Postmark
Ditto, Shanghai, Mail Through “the Naval Post Office”
Ditto, Shanghai “Deutsches Lager”
Ditto, Tientsin, Official Military Mail to Berlin
Ditto, Tientsin, Registered Headquarters Mail
Ditto, Tientsin, Postage Due Mail to Switzerland
Ditto, Tientsin, Military Unit Mail to Germany, Page 1
Ditto, Tientsin, Military Unit Mail, Page 2, Mobile Artillery
Ditto, Tientsin, Military Unit Mail, Page 3, Postal Stationery Usage
Ditto, Tongku, Official Inner-China Military Mail
Ditto, Tongku, Military Unit Mail
Ditto, Tschinwangtau, Provisional Postmark
Ditto, Tschinwangtau, Dated Postmark
Ditto, Yangtsun Registered Mail via Tientsin !903
Ditto, Shantung Railway, Tschiangling
Ditto, Shantung Railway, Nanliu
Ditto, Shantung Railway, Tschingtschoufu, West Bound
Ditto, Shantung Railway, Tschingtschoufu, East Bound
Ditto, Shantung Railway, Tschoutsun
Ditto, Shantung Railway, Tsinanfu
Ditto, Yangtze River Line Postmarks
Ditto, Yangtze River Line, Mei Lee (d), Registered Mail
Ditto, Yangtze River Line, Sui-Tai (blank code)
Ditto, Coastal Seapost, “Secretary of State Kraeftke”
Ditto, Coastal Seapost, “Sikiang”
End of German Presence in China 1914 Kiautschou In-Transit Censored Mail
1914 Peking, China, In-Transit Censored Mail
1914 Tientsin, China, In-Transit Censored Mail
1914 Tschifu,China, In-Transit Censored Mail to Austria
1914 Shanghai-Germany Mail by German-Flag Vessel
1915 China-Germany Mail by neutral-flag vessel
1915 China-Austria Mail by way of USA
1915 POW Censored Mail from Hunghom Camp, Hong Kong
1916 China-Germany Mail by neutral-flag vessel
1916 China-America-France-Germany Double-Censored Missionary Mail
1916 China-America Commercial Mail
1916 Tientsin-Germany POW Assistance Mail
1916 Tientsin-USA POW Assistance Mail
1916 Tientsin POW Money Assistance Mail
1916 Nanking-Germany Mail, Left Side
1916 Nanking-Germany Mail, right-side
1917 Germany-China Mail, via submarine to USA
1917 China-Germany, via USA Returned Mail
1917 Sweden-China Via Siberia Censored Mail
Closure of German Post Offices in China: 16 March 1917
Ditto, China Declares War on Germany & Germans in China Interned.
Ditto, 1917 POW Mail to Austria
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