The decoration is certainly late '40s / early '50s but the bowl was made using a pre-WWII mould, hence just 'Germany' is impressed. The stamp had to be added to show that it came from the Western Sector as at that time the East Germans were not only still seen as the 'baddies' from the war, but they were now Communists ( :hlp:) to boot, and so their products were generally not welcomed throughout Western Europe and North America.
