Krieger, Bad Nauheim
Zigarren-Krieger is a tobacco shop on Bad Nauheim’s Parkstraße. The sign above the entrance features handmade script letters. However, idiosyncratic details like the hook at the top of K or the gap between bowl and downstroke in g reveal that the design started out with a typeface: it’s Stempel Elan, first cast in 1936, after drawings by Hans Möhring.
Bad Nauheim is a mere 40 kilometers north of Frankfurt, where the Stempel foundry was located. Möhring himself was born in 1894 in Halle an der Saale and educated in Leipzig, first at Poeschel & Trepte and then at the local academy. In the 1950s, he relocated to Kornwestheim in the western part of the then divided country. He lived in the area until his death in 1958.
Documented by Monsieur Adrien in March 2025.
