Die 9. Kriegsanleihe! Deutschland hat ewigen Bestand (The 9th War Loan! Germany Has Eternal Existence)

A farmer with a scythe stands in a harvest field under a rainbow, with a town and sheaves behind him. The rhyme above the bank's subscription address claims that Germany has 'eternal existence' and is a 'kerngesund' (thoroughly sound) country: virtue words standing in for any figure on the state of the war economy in autumn 1918.

Date: 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: Bankhaus Baruch Strauss, Marburg and Frankfurt (private bank), for the ninth German war loan; artist Otto Ubbelohde
Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: German Empire
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Corporation
Regime: German Empire
Leader: Wilhelm II
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Fundraise
Themes: Economy and finance, War and the military, Home front
Event: World War I
Techniques: Glittering generalities
Regime: German Empire under Wilhelm II
Leader: Wilhelm II
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain in the U.S. (published before 1931)
Ubbelohde, Otto, artist. Leipzig: R. G. Roder, 1918. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004666130/.

Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

„Deutschland hat ewigen Bestand,
Es ist ein kerngesundes Land!“
Deshalb Deutscher zeichne
die 9. Kriegsanleihe!
Zeichnungen nimmt entgegen
Bankhaus Baruch Strauss
Marburg a. L.   gegr. 1866.   Frankfurt a. M.
Tel.-Nr. 29, 136.   Tel. Hansa 7371-7372-7373.
Originalzeichnung von Prof. Otto Ubbelohde für das Bankhaus Baruch Strauss Marburg u. Frankfurt a. M. Nachdruck verboten.
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English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

"Germany has eternal existence, it is a thoroughly sound country!"
Therefore, German, subscribe to the 9th war loan!
Subscriptions are received by the bank house Baruch Strauss, Marburg a. d. Lahn (founded 1866) and Frankfurt a. M. Telephone numbers as printed.
Original drawing by Prof. Otto Ubbelohde for the bank house Baruch Strauss, Marburg and Frankfurt a. M. Reprinting forbidden.
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Telephone numbers are small in the scan; digits read as printed but may be slightly off.