[1][6] Due to the passing of anti-socialist laws Der Wahre Jacob was banned by the Hamburg state government in 1881 just after twelve issues.

[4][5][6] In 1884 the magazine was restarted by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz in Stuttgart and from 1888 it was published on a biweekly basis.

[5] Der Wahre Jacob published mostly articles about current events of politics which were concerned with the development of social democracy and labor movement.

[2] In the late 1920s and early 1930s it adopted an anti-Communist approach and advocated the view that "communists were devious, alien, destructive and perhaps even sub-human.

"[6] Der Wahre Jacob was edited by the following: Wilhelm Blos (1879-1880; 1884-1887), Georg Bassler (1890-1900), Berthold Heymann (1901-1919) and Friedrich Wendel (1927-1933).