Collecting cigarette pictures, small collecting pictures, which were attached to cigarette boxes or are acquired over cheque system and into a collecting album be bonded could, had come particularly into the 1930er to 1940er years into Germany into mode; Cigarette pictures represent an aspect of the everyday culture of this time. They stand in a tradition, which can be retraced in the year 1872, when the company Liebig published the first collecting pictures.

Starting from the 1930er years became collecting Sammelbildchen by (prices around 1 realm Mark) the albums very partially provided with much text favorable and a mass phenomenon, and the editions of the albums went into the millions, those of the pictures even into the billions. After the seizure of power of the national socialists in Germany the cigarette pictures were used particularly for propaganda purposes, how for example the album clarifies England of the sociologist Ernst Lewalter over the robbery state.

1942 became from war-economical considerations the production of Zigarettenbildchen and - albums however forbidden and could be taken up only after end of war again (Margarinebildchen). 1955 forbade the Federal Government the Beigabe from Sammelbildchen to tobacco products, and the Federal High Court decided 1957 the fact that only pictures with motives for advertising were permissible - thereupon has this form of the collecting pictures at meaning lost and became then into the 1960er years by the Fussballbildchen (first of Panini) replaced.

Important topics were above all

• the olympic plays of 1936 in Berlin,
• German colonies,
• exotic humans,
• Filmschauspieler
• Homeland
• Animals
• military illustrations of airships, airplanes or wars.

Many of these albums were published by Reemtsma, the picture service Hamburg or the Cigaretten picture service Dresden.

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