Wer Kriegsanleihe zeichnet, macht mir die schönste Geburtstagsgabe! (Whoever Subscribes to the War Loan Gives Me the Finest Birthday Present!)
A close-cropped portrait of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg sits above a facsimile of his handwriting: 'Whoever subscribes to the war loan gives me the finest birthday present! von Hindenburg.' The ask rests on his personal vouch and signature; the poster gives no figures about the loan itself.
- Date
- 1917
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- Imperial German war-loan campaign; artist Louis Oppenheim (text signed by Paul von Hindenburg)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- German Empire
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- German Empire
- Leader
- Wilhelm II
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- Economy and finance, War and the military
- Event
- World War I
- Techniques
- Testimonial
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931)
Oppenheim, Louis, artist. 1917. Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-11800.
Text on the object
Wer Kriegsanleihe zeichnet, macht mir die schönste Geburts- tagsgabe! von Hindenburg.
Whoever subscribes to the war loan gives me the finest birth- day present! von Hindenburg.
The main text is a facsimile of Hindenburg's own handwriting in old German cursive (Kurrentschrift); letterforms are hard to verify with full confidence at this resolution, so line breaks are read from the image but wording follows the well-documented published text of this quotation. Small printer's credit lines in the mount's lower corners are too small to transcribe reliably in this scan.
