Uncategorised Suetterlin script

[Bernhard H.Holst]

Hello readers.

Here is what I hope may be of some help to those of us who struggle with Suetterlin script. I believe Rick Research has posted a similar template some time ago.

The designer of this script was Ludwig Suetterlin (umlaut u ), a teacher and graphic technician who lived from 1865 to 1917 and who developed this script in the early 1900's. It was introduced in the State of Prussia in 1924 and from 1930 in most of the other German states. It was to make the learning of writing easier.

It has come to my attention recently that during the 1930's this script was formally forbidden by the then National Socialist Government . The pertinent law has not been rescinded by the current government.

This writer not only learned to write on a slate but also learned and used Suetterlin for at least two years until it was abolished by law.

Following are two templates to chose from:

Bernhard H. Holst

[Odulf]

As there were more variations of the script, I will add this template to the above...

[Les]

There are several versions of Suetterlin script available free on-line as fonts that can be downloaded and installed onto a computer. Once one of the fonts is installed, it can be easily changed to another font. It shouldn't be hard for anyone to see how this can be used to "proof" or test their reading of Suetterlin script by switching the fonts back and forth. The same fonts can be printed out and used to create signs, text, etc. A quick google or on-line search engine using the words such as free download Sutterlin fonts or script should do the trick.

[Robin Lumsden]

Bormann banned it in 1941.

The origins of 'Old German' black type were by then thought to be Schwabacher Jewish.

So Nazism reverted to Latin typeface.

Look at medal citations, cuff titles, books, newspapers etc. etc. after 1941.

Virtually all in Latin font.

Little or no Gothic or Suetterlin, unless 'old stocks' were being used.