Fips

• Born 1900-09-04 · Died 1975-04-04

Rupprecht immigrated to Argentina in 1920, where he worked as a waiter and a cowboy on a cattle ranch. He returned to Nuremberg around 1924 and was hired by the Fränkische Tagespost, a newspaper linked to the German Social Democrats. When he was sent to cover the second Luppe-Streicher trial, he instead drew caricatures of Nuremberg's mayor. These cartoons were published by Der Stürmer in December 1925, and Rupprecht was hired by the paper. Except during 1927, he was Der Stürmer's sole regular cartoonist under the pen-name of "Fips" until the last edition of Der Stürmer on February 2, 1945. His style changed during the course of his career but his subject matter did not.