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Beer In Ads #1818: Bismarck — The “Greatest Of The Germans”

February 11, 2016 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1914, No. 1 in another series they did in 1914-15 called the “National Heroes Series.” The first one features Otto von Bismarck, who “was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. In the 1860s he engineered a series of wars that unified the German states, significantly and deliberately excluding Austria, into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership.” They also noted his love of liberty, and how much he would have hated “the insolent tyranny of the most odious kind” that would tell its citizens “Thou shalt NOT eat this — thou shalt NOT drink that.”

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers, Politics & Law Tagged With: Advertising, Budweiser, History



Comments

  1. Miles Jordan says

    February 12, 2016 at 6:21 pm

    Wonder what Bismarck would say about A-B’s use of adjuncts in their beers.

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