Hans Schweitzer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German propaganda designer
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Hans Schweitzer
- Hans Schweitzer (25 July 1901 – 15 September 1980), known as Mjölnir, was an artist who produced many posters for the Nazi Party (NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler.
- In Teutonic mythology, Mjölnir is the name of Thor's hammer. He was recruited to produce Nazi propaganda posters by Joseph Goebbels.
- The posters depicted crude but memorable caricatures of the NSDAP's opponents.
- A recurring image was of a Sturmabteilung (SA) member side-by-side with a Heer soldier.
- Schweitzer was named a professor in 1937, and was named "Reich Commissioner for Artistic Design" and chairman of the Reich Committee of Press Illustrators. After the war, Schweitzer remained in the western occupation zone.
- In the course of denazification, Schweitzer was fined 500 Deutschemarks in Hamburg-Bergedorf.
- He was boycotted as "Goebbels' illustrator", but nonetheless found work designing posters for West German federal press and information office and as an illustrator in the far-right press.
- In East Germany, some of his earlier work was discarded from library collections.
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