About

Translated from original German description: This 1939, and thus one of the very last Fraktur typefaces to be published in Germany, was designed by Alfons Schneider.

Schneider, born in Groitzsch (near Leipzig) on March 8, 1890, trained as a businessman and lithographer, then studied at the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig, where he had been a lecturer in type from 1934. In addition to Frakendeutsch, he designed the Pergamon Antiqua for Ludwig Wagner.

He died at the age of 57 in Mühlberg an der Elbe.