Support the Hobby -- Join the American Philatelic Society 24 Jul 2013 11:30:32am
re: Nazi Non Postal Stamp "Employed Insurance"
I have two random volumes of the Erler revenue catalog and will look up the stamp when I get home. It may or may not be in one of these. In any event, it is a revenue stamp for the receipt of payment of social security taxes. When social security taxes were not handled by payroll deductions, the person had to pay the contributions in cash. I believe you could also voluntarily pay in more than the minimum. These stamps were affixed to some form showing the weekly/monthly payment. All the stamps shown in the link provided by Ross are unused, which is not surprising -- I assume -- because the cancelled stamps on forms had to be surrendered to the social security administration, while plenty of unused remainders should have flooded the market after the war.
Angestellten-Versicherung here means Employees' Insurance and refers to the white collar branch of social security applicable to white collar and certain self-employed workers. Blue collar workers, farmers, miners, (perhaps other groups) had separate social security systems reflecting the expansion of the system since the 1880s. No wonder the Erler catalog has perhaps ten volumes.
Edit: I checked and the stamps is not in one of the catalogs I own.