40 German cig. cards: History of Medieval Germany (8 AD to 1432), issued. 1934.

Description

Offered here are 40 original German cigarette cards of German Early and Medieval History (8 AD to 1432), issued in 1934 by the Martin Brinkmann Cigarette Co. (under the brand name “Lloyd”) for the album
Alles fuer Deutschland
(Everything for Germany). Pictured here are:
No. 1:
German Leaders Join Forces to Plan the Overthrow of Roman Rule (8 AD).
No. 3:
A Germanic tribal wedding (8 AD).
No. 5:
Segestes warns the Roman general Varus that Hermann the Cherusker is planning to ambush the Roman legions in the forest (9 AD).
No. 7:
Varus, the Roman general, commits suicide when he realizes that his legions have been routed in the Teutoburger Forest (9 AD).
No. 8:
The Germanic victors return home from their nihilation of the Romans in the Teutoburg Forest (9 AD).
No. 9:
A Roman Guard watches over a Roman fort on the Rhine River in Germany around 100 AD.
No. 11:
Germanic women defend their wagon fort from Roman legionnaires (167 AD).
No. 13:
The Gothic King Athanarich Meets Roman Emperor Valens (375 A.D.).
No. 14:
The young Gothic King Alarich enters the City of Rome after conquering it in 410 AD.
No. 15:
King Geiserich of the Germanic Vandals lands with his people on the North African coast in 429 AD.
No. 18:
King Theoderich the Great (Dietrich of Bern), the Founder of the Ostrogothic Empire in Ravenna (493 A.D.).
No. 19:
Bishop Remigius christens Chlodowig, the founder of the Kingdom of the Franks (496 AD).
No. 20:
Witigis, once the page of King Theodathats, is crowned King of the Ostrogoths (536 AD).
No. 22:
The last battle of the Ostrogoths under King Teja against Rome in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius in 553 AD.
No. 23:
The Retreat of the Last Ostrogoths after the Battle of Mount Vesuvius (553 A.D.).
No. 24:
King Karl Martell of the Franks at the Battle of Tours and Poitiers against the Arabs in 732 AD.
No. 26:
Margrave Roland defending Charlemagne’s rear guard in the valley of Roncesvalles (778 AD).
No. 28:
Emissaries from Sultan Harun al Rashid present themselves to Charlemagne (810 AD).
No. 30:
A Viking Fleet. Normans –also called Northmen—embark on a trip of conquest (845 A.D.).
No. 32:
Duke Eberhard, brother of King Konrad I, offers Saxon Duke Heinrich the royal crown (919 AD).
No. 35:
Otto the Great at the Battle of Lechfeld where he defeated the Hungarians/Magyars (955 AD).
No. 37:
Otto the Great throws his spear into the Velt River to mark the boundary of his empire in the North (963 A.D.).
No. 39:
Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen, acting as representative for Heinrich IV, among his warriors (1056 AD).
No. 41:
Lothar of Saxony is elected German King (1125).
No. 43:
Albrecht the Bear conquers the Wendish people in 1134 AD.
No. 45:
Henry the Lion (Heinrich der Löwe) saves the life of Emperor Barbarossa during fighting on the Tiber Bridge in Rome (1155 A.D.).
No. 47:
Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa reconciles with Henry the Lion (Heinrich der Löwe) (1182 AD).
No. 48:
Emperor Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River in Cilicia in the Near East (1190).
No. 49:
The Storming of Acre in the Third Crusade (1191).
No. 52:
The Naval Battle at Warnemünde (1234).
No. 51:
Saracen merchants present themselves to Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in Palermo, Sicily (1220 AD).
No. 53:
The Interregnum Period (when there was no Emperor): Robber Knights attack a merchant wagon train in 1260 AD.
No. 55:
Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg raises a noble young man to the rank of Knight with his sword (1278).
No. 57:
Ludwig the Bavarian meets his competitor for the throne, Friedrich the Handsome, after the Battle of Mühldorf (1322).
No. 59:
Eberhard der Greiner of Württemberg at the Battle of Döffingen against the Swabian City League (1388).
No. 60:
The ships from the city of Wismar stuck in the ice (1394). [Wismar, a port on the Baltic Sea, was part of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages, a trade association of cities in Northern Europe. Piracy was a problem for many port cities and Wismar tried in 1394 to send out ships to fight the pirates. However, the Wismar ships were stuck in the frozen harbor.]
No. 61:
The return of the Hamburg warship “Bunte Kuh” (Colorful/Mottled Cow) after successfully defeating pirates.
No. 63:
The large siege cannon “Lazy Margaret” (“Faule Grete”) at the Siege of Friesack (1414).
No. 65:
Paul Beneke of Danzig captures an English warship and takes the Lord Mayor of London prisoner (1470).
No. 67:
Marin Behaim, a knight from Nuremberg and noted seaman, meets Columbus (1490).
No. 69:
Emperor Maximilian names Friedrich the Wise of Saxony his personal representative (1500).
The cards measure 2 and ¼ inches by 1 and ½ inches.
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