Talk:Germania (St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main)

lol it has a pot sword — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.67.116 (talk) 18:12, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it is easily identified as Cannabis. The article correctly references it's industrial term, Hemp.Arneeast (talk) 00:14, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

"Hemp vandalism"
Hello, there is someone (or a group of people) who obviously has some interest in hemp. This person is trying to impose his interpretation of the painting "Germania" on Wikipedia. This has already happened in several Wikipedia language versions.

Factual background: The painting from 1848 shows a female figure holding an olive branch. Which plant it is, I personally dare not judge. But the specialist literature says: olive branch. Nothing else. This is also the common symbolism in such paintings. (Symbol of peace.)

The "hemp vandal", on the other hand, wants to spread the opinion that the plant is a hemp plant. Among others, the hemp museum ("Hanfmuseum") in Berlin is cited as a source. Other sources are also questionable. Particularly problematic: The Hemp Vandal has also falsified an original quote. The art historian Rainer Schoch described the plant as an olive branch. (I had the article in hand myself and added the quote to Wikipedia in German). The hemp vandal single-handedly turned it into a "hemp plant", as if Schoch himself had written it that way.

In Wikipedia in German, the article "Germania" was protected for a long time. Now, however, a hemp friend is active again. (I don't know if it's the same person; sometimes it's an IP, sometimes a user name). Please stay alert, in Wikipedia in English and elsewhere. Ziko (talk) 18:24, 23 September 2023 (UTC)