Item no. P1580 (cover)
Type: cover
Country: Germany
Date of use: 20 December 1974
Business stationery (cover, with relevant red frankmark) used by the company CONTI-PRESS Pressebilder (Heinz Fremke OHG) in Hamburg (Germany), private press agency. It was founded by Heinz Fremke (1907 - 1987) who, after the Second World War, worked as a photographer in Hamburg. Working with two other photographers, Gerd Heidemann and Peter Leibing, he documented various events in Hamburg and in other places. On behalf of "Conti-Press" Leibing took the photograph "Leap into freedom", which shows the escape of a NVA [Nationale Volksarmee in DDR] soldier (Hans Conrad Schumann [1942 - 1998]) from the eastern sector of Berlin at the time of building the Berlin Wall (Overseas Press Club award for the best photograph in 1961).