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Dropping the Pilot. Caricature by Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), first published in the British magazine Punch, March 1890. Showing German Emperor Wilhelm II and the leaving Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. The reference to Bismarck as a "pilot" comes from an earlier cartoon from the Puck magazine from Saint Louis, Missouri. For that magazine, the cartoonist Joseph Keppler made one titled "The Master Pilot of the Age", featuring Bismarck on a ship, having brought it out to the high seas, from which the stars and gods looked down. This symbolized Bismarck's accomplishment of forming the Kaiserreich, which enabled Germany to be recognized as a great power. [source: Satire on Stone: The Political Cartoons of Joseph Keppler].

Der Lotse geht von Bord. Karikatur von Sir John Teniel, abgedruckt im englischen Magazin Punch. Oben Kaiser Wilhelm II, Reichskanzler Otto von Bismarck muss das Schiff verlassen.


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