“1000 RM. Belohnung!” SPD election poster
An election poster attacking the government of Adolf Hitler and promoting the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the March 1933 German federal election, the last election in Germany before the Nazi Party banned all other political parties.
The headline (“Reward 1,000 Reichsmark”) uses a version of Inserat-Grotesk schmal, possibly the schmalfett style of Phönix-Groteske by Krebs. The other typefaces are all by this Frankfurt/Main type foundry: the bulk of the text uses fette Merian-Fraktur, though there are two lines in schmale fette Brentano-Fraktur. The word “dass” at the beginning of each point is in halbfette Federzug-Antiqua, and the numeral in “Liste 2” likely is from Freihand-Groteske.
The poster was printed by the Offenbacher Abendblatt, a party-owned newspaper founded in 1874 which had to cease publication shortly after when the National Socialists came to power.
