Original First Day Cover issued June 3, 1961 honoring Louise Schroeder (1887–1957), acting Mayor of Berlin during the 1948-49 Airlift.

Features 20 pf commemorative stamp (Scott 9N104) and Berlin-Charlottenburg first-day cancel.

Attractive bilingual cachet with full-color portrait and red Berlin Bear + LUFTBRÜCKE airplane design symbolizing the “Air Bridge.”

Clean, unaddressed example from post-war Berlin—an iconic Cold War issue.

Berlin FDC 1961 • Louise Schroeder • Berlin Airlift • LUFTBRÜCKE • Cold War Germany • Women in Politics • Berlin Bear Cachet • German Philately • Postwar History • Charlottenburg Cancel