"Our State Ministry in Uniform (With One Exception)" (March 28, 1889)

The caption to this cartoon by F. Graetz reads: “Reviewing Officer Prince Bismarck: My heavens – How did that civilian get in here?!” The civilian in question is Prussian Minister of Justice Hermann von Schelling (1824-1908), who held office in Bismarck’s cabinet from 1879 to 1889. The cartoonist meant to suggest not only that Bismarck demanded military-style obedience from his fellow cabinet members but that non-military pedigrees and opinions among ministers of state were conspicuous mainly by their absence. Source: “Unser Ministerium in Uniform (bis auf Einen),” Lustige Blätter, vol. 4, no. 13 (March 28, 1889). (Lustige Blätter appeared regularly as a supplement to the widely-circulated Berliner Börsen-Courier.)

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