Stein Reinhold Hanke #1268 "Germans and Romans".
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The official name of this ancient German mug is "Germans and Romans". The mug was made in the period 1900-1910 at the Reinhold Hanke manufactory. In the Reinhold Hanke product catalog, the mold of this mug is included under the number 1268. On our mug, this number can be seen on the outer surface of the bottom. This information should be treated very carefully, as the same design was used by other manufacturers who gave their molds different numbers.
This fact is explained by the fact that the plot of the drawing was not an author's work by the artists of the Reinhold Hanke manufactory. It was borrowed.
The central image is taken from an illustration by the famous German artist Heinrich Schlitt (1849-1923), which became part of the 1890 fresco that decorated the Wiesbaden Town Hall cellar. This historical site was destroyed in the spring of 1945. Wiesbaden was heavily bombed by the Air Forces of the Allied forces (USA, Great Britain) at the end of the Second World War. The historic center of Wiesbaden was destroyed. 250-kilogram bombs that had not exploded were found there until the 1990s.
Heinrich Schlitt depicted in his drawings an episode from the era of the fiercest confrontation between the ancient Germanic tribes and the aggressive expansion of the Great Roman Empire.
In the 12th year before our era, the Roman Empire sent its legions on the right bank of Raine to expand its European possessions in the East direction to the shores of R. Elba. After 30 years, the Romans, linking in battles preferred to abandon the strategy of expanding their influences East Raine and North Danube. After that, they chose to move to create their defensive lines. In the next 5 centuries, it was from these directions that the breakthrough of the great Roman Empire had occurred. The heirs of ancient German tribes have always used it as a cause for national pride. Inscription on the mug translated from German means: "Italian wine, so sweet and exquisite, that crushed the dice of the Romans. However, in beer and juice rare closed forever young German power." Irony in this case is rather chauvinistic.
It is appropriate to emphasize here that Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century was ripe for demanding revenge for a certain role of international domination.
The ideology was supported by those who considered themselves veterans of military service. This mug belonged to one of these enthusiastic veterans. This can be understood by studying the engraving on the lid.
Decoding and translating the engraved inscription allows you to determine the place of service of the mug owner. This is the 4th company of the 1st Battalion of the 120th Infantry Regiment of Kaiser Wilhelm II, King of Prussia.
Usually, such inscriptions were applied to mugs by order of conscripts preparing for demobilization.
In our case, we are not dealing with a classic reservist club. This copy was a gift to an active officer of a military unit from his colleagues. The name of the mug's owner is indicated as Seyerl. It's more of a nickname among the members of the officers' club. The totality of such facts as the content of the inscription on the facade of the mug and its design as a gift to an officer of the active forces gives reason to believe that the owner of the mug was an adherent of the ideas of superiority of the German nation at the beginning of the First World War. The whole world knows how that war ended.
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