Home › Entities › Postal Service › Reichspost

Reichspost

German national mail from 1871 to 1945
Organization Postal Service Q321586

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
postal service

Status and dates

Inception
1866[6]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1866 GND (DNB) 1871-05-12 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
Dissolved, abolished or demolished
1945[7]
Replaced by
Deutsche Bundespost, Deutsche Post of the GDR[8][9]

Location

Headquarters location
Berlin[3]
Country
German Reich[2]

Industry and activity

Industry
mail[4]

Relations

Has part(s)
German Army Mail in the Second World War[5]
Owner of
Palais Thurn und Taxis, Hakeburg, Villa Wewersbusch[10][11][12]
More facts +1
Different from
Kaiserliche Reichspost[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Reichspost ar رايشبوست ar بريد الرايخ ar بريد الرايخ الألماني cs Říšská pošta cs Císařská pošta cs Německá říšská pošta de Kaiserliche Post de Deutsche Reichspost fa رایش‌پست fa رایش پست ja ライヒスポスト ru Имперская почта zh 国家邮政 zh 德國帝國郵政 zh 德意志国邮政 zh 德意志帝国邮政总局 zh-hans 德意志国邮政 zh-hans 德意志帝国邮政总局 zh-hant 國家郵政
🔖 Identifiers · 7
GND ID
40335-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
00 0533 Deutsche Reichspost.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/011b3t95
Museen Dresden article ID
30190
Museum-digital person/organization ID
11393
NL CR AUT ID
ko20251269246
Topic's main category
Category:Reichspost
📚 Sources · 1
  • GND (DNB) as of 2026-09-30 · 1 statement · CC0 1.0 DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.

Report an error or request removal Lineage (PROV-JSON)

⛏️ Lake Facts · open-dataset statements via 4ort-mint

From open datasets, joined by identifier and shown only for properties Wikidata does not state on this entity — except where the dataset is the registry authority for the fact (ClinicalTrials.gov on trial registration data): there its value is shown instead, with Wikidata's noted beside it. Every row carries its dataset edition and licence.

ISNIP213
0000 0001 1012 6545 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30
where from?
Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
Bronze
41a59441281a5f69… opendata-index.html +10 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
🔗 Connections
Owned entities 2
Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, Palais Thurn und Taxis
Replaced by 2
Deutsche Bundespost, Deutsche Post of the GDR
← Replaces 2
Deutsche Bundespost, Deutsche Post of the GDR
Country 1
German Reich
Different from 1
Kaiserliche Reichspost
Employees / affiliates 1
Felix Pollaczek
Has these parts 1
Postschutz
Headquarters location 1
Berlin
Industry 1
mail
Instance of 1
postal service
Owner of 1
Palais Thurn und Taxis
← Commissioned by 1
Postfuhramt
← Different from 1
Kaiserliche Reichspost
← Organization directed by the office or position 1
Heinrich von Stephan
← Publisher 1
Yacht issue
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Reichspost is a postal service[1].

Related Entities

Deutsche Bundespost

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Reichspost. Retrieved November 8, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/reichspost
MLA “Reichspost.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 8 Nov. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/reichspost.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_reichspost_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Reichspost}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/reichspost}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Reichspost — https://4ort.xyz/entity/reichspost (retrieved 2026-11-08)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/reichspost · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Kaiserliche Reichspost
    Replaced by → Deutsche Bundespost, Deutsche Post of the GDR
    Inception → +1866-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Has part(s) → German Army Mail in the Second World War
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56529: Import GNDs from dewiki"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.