From the moment on the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632) landed with his troops on the northern German island of Usedom on July 6th 1630 the pro-Swedish and Swedish publicists and propagandists started to intensify the publication of illustrated broadsheets. The Swedish king was above all depicted as a militarily strong general, an ancient and Old Testament hero figure, as the Lion of the North and even as a physician. These graphic accounts of Gustavus Adolphus were often combined with the publicistic stylistic device of the Miles Christianus. Based on the broadsheet-collection of the National library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket; literally translated as The Royal Library) the change of the publicistic image of the Swedish king, between his landing at Usedom on July 6th 1630 and his death on November 16th 1632 at the battlefield of Lützen and later, will be discussed. Many modern historians who work with illustrated broadsheets maintain that Gustavus Adolphus was only present in protestant popular press until around 1634/35. Thereafter, protestant authors and propagandists did not refer to him in their broadsheets. However, in this paper it is posited that the Swedish king was indeed present in protestant propaganda for a longer period than has been heretofore assumed. In addition to an analysis of the illustrated broadsheets, an original catalogue depicting the illustrated broadsheets was created. The importance of this new kind of catalogue is twofold. Firstly, the collection of illustrated broadsheets of the National library of Sweden has not yet been analysed and published as an independent catalogue. Secondly, this catalogue contains verbatim transcriptions of the illustrated broadsheets and has thereby broken new ground. It would be worthwhile for national libraries to provide these verbatim transcriptions of their collections of illustrated broadsheets. This would facilitate future research of illustrated broadsheets and even make more detailed analysis possible. / Am 6. Juli 1630 landet der schwedische König Gustav II. Adolf (1594-1632) auf der norddeutschen Insel Usedom in Pommern. Der Zeitpunkt der schwedischen Landung war vonseiten der schwedischen Propaganda nicht zufällig gewählt worden, sondern fiel bewusst mit dem 100-jährigen Jubiläum des Augsburger Bekenntnisses zusammen. Diese beiden Ereignisse wurden in frühneuzeitlichen Massenmedien rege besprochen und vonseiten der proschwedischen Publizistik miteinander in Verbindung gebracht. In den zeitgenössischen Flugblättern, die während der Schwedischen Phase des Dreißigjährigen Krieges (1630-1635) herausgebracht wurden, inszenierte man Gustav II. Adolf unter anderem als militärisch-potenten Feldherren, als antike oder alttestamentarische Heldengestalt, als heilenden Arzt des erkrankten Heiligen Römischen Reiches oder als »Löwe aus Mitternacht«. Der österreichisch-schwedische Historiker Tobias E. Hämmerle untersucht, wie sich das publizistische Bild des schwedischen Königs Gustav Adolf vom Zeitpunkt seiner Landung bis zu seinem Tod in Lützen 1632 - und darüber hinaus - änderte. Mithilfe kunsthistorischer und geschichtswissenschaftlicher Ansätze werden 85 illustrierte Flugblätter, die als Abdrucke Eingang in das Buch finden, im Detail analysiert.