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Unemployment in Germany during the Great Depression

Unemployed in front of the Berlin Labor Exchange, 1929-1932

Unemployed office workers study free job placement offers in front of a Berlin employment office.

Unemployed dock workers at the Hamburg Labor Exchange, 1932

Unemployed dock workers at the Hamburg Labor Office hoping to get a job and earn money for at least a few days.

Unemployed in front of the employment agency at the Port of Hamburg, 1930

Hundreds of unemployed before the employment office in the port of Hamburg, who flock in the street after closing time.

Unemployed in front of the employment agency, 1929-1932

Hundreds of heaters, sailors and dock workers are queuing up at the employment agency, in the hope of getting a rare place of work.

Students sign up for voluntary work, 1932

Students sign up for Freiwillige Arbeitsdienst (Voluntary Labour Service) because they have no occupational outlook.

Unemployed as a street musician, 1929-1932

Four unemployed trying to make money as street musicians. A woman is looking at them from the window of a shoemaker's workshop. Presumably a moviestill.

Great Depression: Unemployed teenagers

Great Depression: Unemployed, 1929-1932, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic.

Unemployed as an emigrant to Canada, 1930

Men waiting for medical examination and the visa to travel to Canada.

Evacuation of the Gormann Strasse in Berlin, 1931

Policemen before the unemployment office in Berlin Mitte while evacuating the Gormannstrasse. Next to the employment office on a wall are billboards of "Gustav Fingerhut Bueromoebel, Schultheiss-Patzenhof and Felix Haack Schilder und Leuchtreklamen" .

Unemployed on a fairground in Berlin, 1930

Men are standing in front of a sales cart in a fairground to purchase tickets for the animal show or the circus performance. They are probably unemployed. In the background is the tent of the circus Sarrasani.

Unemployed in the Aufbaugemeinschaft Berlin Gatow, 1929-1932

Unemployed in the Aufbaugemeinschaft Gatow. The construction of a new settlement served as a job creation measure. On the right, men repair bicycles and do carpentry work. Left is a baker who brought bread to the settlement.

Unemployed in the Berlin Schrippenkirchen, 1929-1932

Unemployed in the Schrippenkirche in Berlin-Wedding (Hussiten-Strasse 71) are waiting for food at the tables. The so-called "Schrippenkirche" was founded by Constantin Liebich and financed by the association "Dienst am Arbeitslosen". The unemployed were given food, an accommodation or sometimes even a short-term job.

Bathers at the Teltow Canal in Berlin, 1932

Men and women swimming and sunbathing at the Teltow canal near the Baumschulenweg.

Looting of grocery business Eduard Goldacker at Hohenzollerndamm in Berlin, 1930

Looting at the grocery store Eduard Goldacker Nachf. (owners Gusowski and van Groenenbergh) GmbH during the Great Depression. Outside the store are policemen and onlookers. The Jewish owner had to close the business in 1933.

Unemployed on the road, 1930

Unemployed men sit on a sidewalk in Berlin.

Munich's Hofbraeuhaus, 1931

View of the Hofbraeuhaus in Munich.

Young unemployed playing music in a camp, 1929-1932

Four young men playing music on a bed in a dormitory. They are in a labour camp of the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst on the North Sea.

The unemployed camp Falkenrehde near Bornim, 1930

An agricultural building of the expropriated Rittergut Falkenrehde manor near Potsdam, which was used as an unemployment camp during the world economic crisis.

The unemployed camp Falkenrehde near Bornim, 1930

Sheds and barns of the expropriated Falkenrehde manor, which was used as an unemployment camp during the world economic crisis.

Policemen end an unemployed demonstration, 1931

Policemen push back unemployed people who demonstrate in front of a bank.

Unemployed playing cards, 1932

Unemployed people playing cards in a pub.

Skat player at the Leopoldplatz in Berlin-Wedding, 1932

Unemployed have gathered at the Leopoldpark in Berlin (Wedding) at several tables with skat players. Children are playing in a sandbox that is surronded by the tables.

The unemployed in the Aufbaugemeinschaft Berlin-Gatow, 1933

Unemployed in the Aufbaugemeinschaft Gatow. The construction of a new settlement served as a job creation measure. The men inside one of the new buildings are dressing up or read newspaper.

Placement in a Hamburg ship repair company, 1931

Men who got a new job, wait behind grids for their papers to be checked by employees of the shipping company.

Bathers at the Spree in Berlin, 1932

Men and women bathing and sunbathing on the Spree on the side of Stralauerallee (formerly Klein Stralauer Strasse). In the background is the Elsen bridge and a railway bridge. Since the citizens of Berlin can no longer afford to go to the open-air swimming pools, they bathe in the Spree.

Unemployed playing cards in a park, 1929-1932

Some men sit on a park bench and play cards, others stand around them and watch the game.

Plundering of the department store "EPA-Einheitspreis AG" in the Prenzlauer Allee Berlin, 1929

Passers-by and department store employees stand in front of the looted shop windows of the department store. Kepa Kaufhaus GmbH was a German department store chain, which was founded in 1926 as Epa. It was a low-price chain in Karstadt.

Street musician in Berlin, 1929-1932

A group of young men try themselves out as street musicians in a Berlin street. In the background a shop window of Solinger Stahlwaren (Solinger steel products).

Applicant in front of the department store Karstadt at the Hermannplatz in Berlin, 1929

The Karstadt Group is looking for employees for its newly opened department store at Hermannplatz in Berlin-Neukoelln. The applicants wait in a long queue at the entrance. In the background are the shop windows of "Rudolph Karstadt Akt. Ges. Abt.: Zentral Einkauf und Damenkonfektion" und "S. Sadagurski Mantel und Kostueme".

Unemployed at the quayside in Hamburg, 1932

Unemployed sailors are standing at a quay in the port of Hamburg.

Workers in Hamburg, 1930

Two workers talking in Hamburg.

Young men during their aircraft mechanic training, 1932

Young unemployed people repairing an aircraft engine of a pre-war biplane, which is used to launch gliders. Trainings, as here, for aircraft mechanics, often served as a job creation scheme.

Price cut for the unemployed during the global economic crisis, 1929-1932

During the Great Depression special prices were offered for the unemployed, as here in the hair salon Otto Stulpner. Below in the shop window, are listed the prices for unemployed, around which are the advertising boards and products of the companies "Creme Leodor" and "Chlorodont".

Unemployed with a self-made zeppelin in Berlin, 1929-1932

Unemployed people travel through Germany with a self-made zeppelin. The airship with a swastika pennant on the hull is viewed by passers at Hackescher Markt in Berlin-Mitte. In the background are the shops "Carl Cohn A.G.", "Textil-Versand S. Heimann", "Deutsche Automatenstickerei" and "Gelegenheitseinkaeufe".

Street musician in Berlin, 1929-1932

A group of young men try themselves out as street musicians in a street in Berlin.

Emigrants in Berlin, 1929-1932

Members of a family sit on their packed cases and luggage while waiting for their train presumably at the main station in Berlin.

Applicants in front of the office of the newly opened Palais de Danse in Behrenstrasse in Berlin, 1930

The managers of the Palais de Danse are looking for employees for the newly opened dance hall in Behrenstrasse (Berlin-Mitte). The candidates are waiting in front of the office and the directorate of the theater in Behrenstrasse.

Unemployed as a street musician, 1929-1932

Two unemployed street musicians and their audience in a backyard.

Road planning, 1929-1932

Unemployed people with a map planning where to seek work.

Unemployed in front of converted tram cars, 1932

Unemployed sit on deck chairs in the sun. Behind them are three tram cars that they have converted into accommodation.

Fortune-teller at Alexanderplatz in Berlin, 1930

A man presents horoscopes for the coming year at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin under the motto "What brings me the year 1931" and "Am I a Sunday child?".

Unemployed people display an airplane model to earn some money, 1932

A model of the passenger aircraft Dornier Do X. from matches as an exhibition piece, that should bring money to two unemployed people from Hamburg. They sell the descriptions of the airplane for 10 Pf. to prospective customers.

Unemployed dock workers in Hamburg, 1934

Unemployed dock workers are grouped under a bridge in the port of Hamburg.

Unemployed playing cards in a park, 1929-1932

Men are playing skat at long tables in a park.

Unemployed sailor with his model ship in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1929-1932

An unemployed sailor makes a stop in Berlin-Mitte during his European tour with his model of the passenger ship "Imperator" . With the ship he appeals for a small support. With such models, people tried to increase people's willingness to donate and earn their living.

Three men from Marienburg on their way through the Grosser Stern in Berlin, 1932

Three men from Marienburg (today: Malbork) in East Prussia on their 20,000 km long cycling tour to advertise their East German homeland and their German homeland thoughts. On their wheels they have attached signs with their route and ask for a donation: "Advertising drive for our homeland East Prussia - Marienburg 20,000 km - 3 years. Travel rroute: Marienburg-Berlin-Munich-Vienna-Budapest-Venice-Rome-Messina-Algiers-Gibralta-Lisbon-Cartagena-Madrid-Barcelona-Toulouse-Nice-Zurich-Cologne-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg-Berlin-Marienburg Support our homeland notion!"

Young unemployed in a youth hostel in Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1929-1932

Young unemployed while reading and playing in a youth hostel at Sophie-Charlottestrasse 113 in Berlin.

Unloading meat in the Veteranenstrasse in Berlin, 1929-1932

Passers-by watch a man who is unloading meat in the Veteranenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte.

Customers at the pawnshop in Berlin, 1932

A man redeems his winter coat in a pawn shop in Berlin.

Labor Court Berlin, 1929-1932

Passers-by in front of the Labour Court in Berlin.

Unemployed in Berlin, 1929-1932

Unemployed men on a street in Berlin.

Chess club for young unemployed in Berlin, 1931

Young people play chess or checkers in an outdoor restaurant in Berlin. Such chess clubs had the purpose to keep the unemployed busy and keep them away from the streets.

Restaurant at the time of the world economic crisis, 1929

Three men reading and sleeping in a pub. In the background a sheet metal plate of the cigar company Bulgaria Krone.

Young people at the employment office in Berlin-Mitte, 1931

The supervisor of the day room, where unemployed teenagers can wait, plays checkers with the adolescents in order to keep them away from the street (according to the original caption).

Unemployed in front of the City Hall in Bodenmais, 1931

Unemployed have gathered for a protest meeting in front of the City Hall in Bodenmais in the Bavarian Forest.

Mounted policemen block the area around the Reichstag, 1930

Policemen end a demonstration of the unemployed in Berlin-Mitte. Policemen push the demonstrators in front of them and clear the square.

Unemployed sailor with his model ship in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1929-1932

An unemployed sailor makes a stop in Berlin-Mitte during his European tour with his model of the passenger ship "Imperator". Passers are interested in the steamship. With such models, people tried to increase people's willingness to donate and earn their living.

Policemen during a chase at Buelowplatz in Berlin, 1931

In front of the Fruehstuecksstube Hermann Schulz at Buelowplatz (Berlin-Mitte), policemen chase a fugitive passer-by (2nd from right). Despite a police ban, on the 25th of February, the "International Unemployment Day", demonstrations and riots took place in Berlin as well.

Training and education of unemployed young people by the Red Cross, 1929-1932

The Berlin Red Cross takes over the training of young unemployed people in its "Notwerk deutscher Jugend" (Emergency Organization for German Youth). Young men, some in field uniform or the uniform of the Red Cross study maps of Doeberitz at a long table. Paramilitary sports was part of the training of the organization and Doeberitz, as a former military school offered enough space to accommodate the young people, so the photo was probably made there and shows the group shortly before a field exercise.

Applicants for a job at the Hiller Girls, 1929-1932

Unemployed women are waiting on the street to apply for a job at the "Hiller-Girls" dance group.

Unemployed young people in a bookbinder workshop in Berlin, 1931

In the employment office Berlin-Mitte young people are engaged in a bookbinding workshop, to keep them away from the street and preserve their work attitude (according to the original caption).

Two unemployed Bavarians with a football in Berlin, 1929-1932

Two Bavarians travel through Germany with a self-made football as a "trailer". Here is one of the two before the football opened for onlookers in a Berlin street. On their way, they collect donations and distribute cards on their project. The original caption contains the text of the postcard: "All over Germany with the 12 hundredweight football! Two athletes from the Donaustrand roll 12 cwt through the German country. The cards they give are free, a thousand thanks to the noble heart, which understands their bitterly serious life! Help all, support them at will for the card! You cannot demand anything! German is their deed, German is the honor!".

Unemployed young people at the Andreasplatz in Berlin, 1932

Young people without a job sit or stand at the Berlin Andreasplatz.

Unemployed sailor with his model ship in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1929-1932

An unemployed sailor makes a stop in Berlin-Mitte during his European tour with his model of the passenger ship "Imperator". Passers-by watch him as he examines the ship's fastening. With such models, people tried to increase people's willingness to donate and earn their living.

Unemployed men travel through Germany with their trailer, 1932

A man and a woman move travel through Germany with their trailer and try to collect donations by selling postcards. Above the trailer is a sign with the inscription: "We push this house through Germany with a strong hand!".

Six unemployed men in front of the Friedenau City Hall in Berlin, 1932

Six unemployed men are playing the guitar and mandolin in Berlin-Friedenau shortly before their departure to India. The men want to travel from Berlin via Lyon, Gibraltar, Morocco, Egypt, Arabia and Persia to Bombay within two years.

Auction in a Berlin pawnshop, 1929-1932

Large crowds at the auction of toys, household and consumer goods in a Berlin pawnshop.

Four unemployed miners with their trailer at Leipziger Platz in Berlin, 1932

Four unemployed miners from Bochum travel through Europe in a self-painted horse cart. They try to earn money for their livelihood with the sale of postcards.

Four unemployed miners with their trailer at Leipziger Platz in Berlin, 1932

Four unemployed miners from Bochum travel through Europe in a self-painted horse cart. They try to earn money for their livelihood with the sale of postcards.

The unemployed men before the Friedenau city hall in Berlin start a bicycle tour to India, 1932

Six unemployed men on their way to India. The men want to travel from Berlin via Lyon, Gibraltar, Morocco, Egypt, Arabia and Persia to Bombay within two years.

Two Cologne artists present a model of the Ulm Cathedral in Berlin-Friedenau, 1932

Under the motto "Not zwang zu Geduld" (Distress forces to be patient) the two brothers Wilhelm and Johann Dreikausen from Cologne built the model of the Ulm Minster in one year's work. Now they travel through Germany with it and try to earn their livelihood with the sale of postcards, as here in the Friedenau district of Berlin.

Unemployed on their self-built boat "Bruder Straubinger" in Vienna, 1932

Six unemployed from the Bavarian Straubing, boating on the river Danube on their self-built boat. The ship is decorated with a replica of the Straubing City Tower as well as the Austrian and German flags. Here they are at the Friedensbrueck in Vienna.

Great Depression: Unemployed in Berlin, 1929

Unemployed in a home-built car in Berlin. Great Depression: Unemployed, 1929-1932, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic

Distribution of food to unemployed members of the "Stahlhelm. Bund der Frontsoldaten", 1930

Group picture of unemployed members of the Ortsgruppe Kiel of the Stahlhelm-Bund with their families. Shortly before Christmas 1930 they received potatoes, cabbages and turnips as food donations.

The linocut "Unemployed" by Gerhart Bettermann, 1931

The linocut of Bettermann shows a march of the unemployed on a street.

Unemployed in a park in Munich, 1929-1932

Unemployed men stand in groups in a park in Munich. They probably carry out exchange transactions. Photo: Helmuth Kurth

Applicants for a job at the Hiller-Girls, 1930

Unemployed women crowd on the street hoping to get a job at the "Hiller Girls".

Dancing couple in a Berlin backyard, 1932

A couple in tuxedo and evening dress during a dance performance in a backyard. They are trying to earn their livelihood with such performances.

An unemployed person makes music with wine glasses in Berlin, 1932

An unemployed street musician plays on wine glasses to make money.

Unemployed miners with their horse cart in Berlin, 1929

Three unemployed miners travel through Germany with a trailer. The self-painted horse cart shows a coal mine. As here in Berlin they give lectures on the streets or in schools to promote the miners' association.

Great Depression: unemployed people with a Zeppelin model, 1932

The unemployed go through the towns and villages with homemade display models, asking for donations by selling postcards. Great Depression: Unemployed, 1929-1932, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic.

Unemployed miner with a model of the coal mine Hugo, 1932

An unemployed miner presents to passers-by his true-to-life replica of a mine in the Ruhr area. According to the original caption, here are shown the consequences of a firedamp in the coal mine and the associated relief actions. In the background a shop of the shoe company Salamander.

Demonstration of unemployed people in Essen, 1929-1932

Unemployed form a long march in Essen. In the background are market stalls and the book and stone printing shop Schiessen & Flothmann.

World economic crisis: unemployed porcelain workers with a giant coffee pot, 1932

Two young porcelain workers sit in a giant coffee pot in Munich. Great Depression: Unemployed, 1929-1932, Germany 1919-1932, Weimar Republic.

Job seeker women apply at the Haller-Revue

Hundreds of unemployed women submit their application at the Haller-Revue in Berlin, that is looking for revue-girls for its troops.

Shanty town in Upper Silesia, 1932

Unemployed miners and their families live in shacks in the shanty towns of the Upper Silesian coal-mining district, because they can no longer pay the rent. In 1932 there were almost 6 million people without work in Germany and on the edges of the large cities the slums were growing.

Dining-room during the economic crisis, 1932

Vulnerable people in a room with free meals served during the Great Depression.

Job seekers during the Great Depression, 1928-1933

An unemployed person wears a sign around his neck that reads "Looking for any type of work".

Bathe at the river Spree during the Great Depression, 1932

In the summer of 1932, the hardship of more than 5 million unemployed and their families had grown so large that the money was sufficient either for the tram or for a ticket to the bath. Therefore, improvised outdoor pools were formed as here at the Kleine Stralauer Strasse on the river Spree in Berlin.

Unemployed young people in Berlin during the Great Depression

Young unemployed people who were off from school are unemployed, they can struggle through only as unskilled laborers. During the period of the unemployment, they tried to kill time by playing cards.

Unemployed in a self-built temporary shelter, 1931

Berlin unemployed have built on the Wilmersdorf 'eyesore' at the Hindenburg street from materials lying around a 'bower'.

Unemployed people in an employment centre

Long queues of unemployed people in the counter halls of the employment centers who are coming for their unemployment benefit.

Help for people without work and income

A greengrocer at 78 Markgrafenstrasse. put a box of pears in front of his shop as a free gift for people without work and income. The note says the following: Attention! These small honey pears are from my garden and they are for people without income. Everyone can take a handful. Don't be shy, take as much as you need.

Job hunting of the unemployed, 1930

A scene from a film: the employer could chose the suitable employee at the local employment centre in the counter hall often out of hundred unemployed persons who were holding out their employment record book.

Unemployed in an employment office

Queues of unemployed people in an employment office.

Unemployed sailor

An unemployed sailor, 32 years old, goes with his handmade scale model ship around the world. He set off in a steamboat in 1929 and he passed through 11 countries and 152 cities. The transparent attached to his handcart says the following: 'I built this within 61 weeks to be able to live on something. A sad fate in difficult times so please spare a penny. The hull of the model is handmade from a piece of wood. Take a look at my hiking medallion shields.'

Unemployed while hitchhiking

This unemployed man travels hitchhiking across Germany, looking for work, during the Great Depression between 1929-1932.

Transporting Deutsche Marks, 1948 (b/w photo)

Loading a carriage with American printed banknotes at the railway station in Bremerhaven, the western powers introduced a new currency, the Deutsche Mark, into their occupation zones on 21st June 1948 to replace the old devalued Reichsmark, D-Mark, nachkriegszeit, geschichte,

Unemployed before the labor agency in Berlin, 1932

The queue of those who seek work surrounding the employment office in southeast Berlin.

Unemployed in Hamburg, 1931

In a cheap accommodation unemployed sleep for a few pennies 'on the tether', based only on a rope to at least be protected against the weather.

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