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Tannenberg
Sans-serif typeface from 1934

Tannenberg

Tannenberg is a Fraktur-family blackletter typeface, developed between 1933 and 1935 by Erich Meyer at the type foundry D.

Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main. The design followed the "New Typography" principles of Jan Tschichold that promoted "constructed" sans serif typefaces. It is named after the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, in which German troops under Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff stopped the advance of Russian troops. Meyer's design for the typeface was inspired by Nazi ideology.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Dietmar Rabich (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.