Der Wahre Jacob (1884–1933)

Otto Emil Lau - How the carbon dioxide in the Ruhr district is concerned about the common good, 1904

Unsigned - The Terror of Europe, 1916

Emil Erk - The Peace Dove, 1902

Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - From the good neighbor, 1905

Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - The Council of the Devil, 1899

A. Mrawek - Father's Dreams, 1909

Unsigned - The German Fleet Lindwurm, 1906

Maximilian Vanselow - First May, 1909

Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - Tsar Nicholas in the Wolf Gorge, 1917

Unsigned - Ein Spuk am hellen, lichten Tage, 1900

Unsigned - The national liberal monster in submarine Germany, 1906

Unsigned - A Radical For The Cultural World, 1899

Willy Lehmann-Schramm - Reichsdeutscher Mummenschaz, 1910

Unsigned - The Modern Oedipus,1913

Georg Kretzschmar - The New Diogenes, 1923

Unsigned - The National Liberal Witch Kitchen, 1894

Willy Lehmann-Schramm - New Comet Formations in the Political Sky,1909

Unsigned - The Farmers And The Stock Exchange, 1897

Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - Beautiful souls find themselves, 1899

Arthur Krüger - The Easter Egg, 1915

Otto Emil Lau - Satan's Compassion, 1904

Willi Steinert - Happy New Year!, 1914

Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - The Raid, 1900

Arthur Krüger - Die Drachentöter, 1920

Unsigned, After Arnold Bocklin - Geisterspuk on the castle square, 1907
 Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - The Dragon Of Discord, 1916
 Unsigned - Zentrumsdemagogen, 1902

Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - John Bulls Höllenfahrt, 1902

Monogramm A. M. - Wie der Herrgott, 1909

Arthur Krüger - The Moloch, 1920

Monogramm Leo - The potato usurer in hell, 1915
 Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - New Reaction Children's Game, 1897

Unsigned - From the Balkans, 1913

Unsigned - Bulow's dream, 1902

Unsigned - A Modern Laokoon, 1916

Ferdinand Leeke - Thor Slaps The Midgard Snake, 1895

Unsigned - The Social Democratic Struggle With The Dragon, 1893

Unsigned - Fright Spirits, 1899

Monogramm L - Walpurgis Nacht, 1893

Willy Lehmann-Schramm - Illustration of the text "Der russische Nero" 1907

Rata Langa - Small Japan as a cultural promoter, 1904

Monogramm L - The Scourge Of The Nations, 1893

Monogramm L - Ein Maimorgen, 1897

Rata Langa - Between Scylla and Charybdis, 1899
 Unsigned - The War, 1895

A. Mrawek - Der Amokläufer von Moabit, 1910

Maximilian Vanselow - Agricultural concert, 1906

Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - The Glare Of Polyphemms, 1899

A. Mrawek - Geistliche Schulaufsicht, 1910

J. U. Engelhard - Far Reaching Protection, 1918

Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - The latest from the Spiritus headquarters, 1909

Artist unknown - Humor of the outside, 1923

Hans Gabriel Jentzsch - On the birthday of the block, 1907

Walter Crane - Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1895

Unsigned - Social Welfare, 1907

Willibald Krain - Political Twilight, 1923

Artist Unknown - The choice in Borna-Pegau, 1914
 Unsigned - A Dorado of the Ill-timers, 1909

Friedrich W. Wagner - Light Paths, 1919
 Willi Steinert - Neue Marineforderungen, 1914

"Founded in 1879 in Hamburg the social democratic satire journal Der Wahre Jacob was published intermittently until 1933. For a long time it was the most widely read journal within the circle of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After reprisals in the context of the Anti-Socialist Laws the magazine was continued in Stuttgart. From 1891 onwards the cover page was decorated with a four-colour printed caricature. Coloured satire pictures, caricatures, agitation pictures and illustrations gained an important role.

In 1923 hyperinflation forced Der Wahre Jacob to cease its publication. As late as October 1922 an issue was sold for 10 Mark, by mid-1923 the price had increased up to 20 million. From 1924 to 1927 the humoristic journal was published under the title Lachen links, from July 1927 the name Der Wahre Jacob was again re-established.

Otto von Bismarck and the politics of the German Reich were the main target of ridicule. Characteristic for Der Wahre Jacob are its articles dealing with tendencies and current events of politics, in particular with the development of social democracy. Already in the year of Hitler's takeover the journal was prohibited because of its critical articles." - quote source

All issues of Der Wahre Jacob are available to download from the university library website of Heidelberg.