Tannenberg is a Fraktur-family Blackletter typeface, developed between 1933 and 1935 by Erich Meyer at the type foundry D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main.
This package includes three variants digitized by Dieter Steffmann.
Tannenberg is named after the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, in which German troops under Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff stopped the advance of Russian troops.
While German Fraktur (Gotische Schrift) fonts were heavily used in Nazi Germany, and are still used by neo-Nazi organizations, it would be more accurate to name them "German fonts," or "Bismarck Fonts," rather than "Nazi fonts." In an edict signed by Martin Bormann in January, 1941, (interestingly under a Fraktur letterhead), the Nazis called for a ban on the future use of Judenlettern (‘Jewish fonts’) like Fraktur.
