"Denkt an Ungarn: Seid wachsam!" CDU poster, 1957 Bundestag election
Text poster over a black sky, a red horizon and a skyline of ruined buildings: 'Denkt an Ungarn: Seid wachsam!' above a large yellow CDU. The tell is the invoked place name: the suppressed 1956 Hungarian uprising is used as the stigma to be guarded against, and the party letters are the only remedy on the sheet (fear-appeal, transfer).
- Date
- 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- CDU (Christian Democratic Union), Bundesgeschäftsstelle Bonn; artist signed 'Briese'; printed by Kölnische Verlagsdruckerei, Cologne
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- West Germany
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Adenauer Government
- Leader
- Konrad Adenauer
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, War and the military
- Event
- 1957 West German Federal Election
- Techniques
- Fear appealTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Archiv für Christlich-Demokratische Politik (ACDP 10-001: 601), via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung cooperation release; file page states the licence)
KAS/ACDP 10-001: 601 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE (artist: Briese)
Text on the object
BRIESE [signature, rotated, top left] Denkt an Ungarn: Seid wachsam ! CDU Herausgeber: C.D.U. Bundesgeschäftsstelle Bonn [small print, lower left] Druck: Kölnische Verlagsdruckerei GMBH, Köln [small print, lower right]
Think of Hungary: Be vigilant! CDU. Publisher: CDU Federal Office, Bonn. Printed by Kölnische Verlagsdruckerei GmbH, Cologne.
Headline and party name read from the image; the small-print imprint is barely legible in the committed file and was checked against the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung record on the Commons file page (client 'CDU-Bundesgeschäftsstelle Bonn', printer 'Kölnische Verlagsdruckerei GmbH, Köln', artist 'Briese'). The committed file is Commons' 960 px rendering of a 793 x 1123 px original, so it is enlarged rather than sharper.
