This doesn’t answer your question but relates

http://typophile.com/node/20905

Quite similar to “Element”, one of the Neugotische Schriften came up in the (end of) 1920s/1930s in Germany. Some people connect them strongly with the 3rd Reich, the nationalsocialist Germany, anyway.
“Element” you could buy here:
http://www.romana-hamburg.de/fraktur6.htm (search the list)

Something more -

Here you see 2 others that were popular – Tannenberg and Potsdam. Other fonts from this categorie were, for example, Lichte National, Standarte, Deutschland.
And…
The red A is still used nowadays as a sign for pharmacies all over germany.

T.

Thanks.