Amadee Wohlschlaeger (December 3, 1911 – June 24, 2014) was a 20th-century American sports cartoonist in St. Louis. He was known professionally as simply "Amadee", which was how he signed his cartoons. He was a long-time sports cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in an era when newspaper sports pages usually included a prominent cartoon.^[1] He drew the Weatherbird cartoon for more than 49 years.^[2]

Wohlschlaeger was born on December 3, 1911, in St. Louis and grew up in the Carondelet neighborhood in the far south of that city,^[1] where he developed a passion for drawing when a small child.^[3] He did not attend high school (although he did later take art classes at Washington University in St. Louis). His father was a printer with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the younger Wohlschlaeger took a job there at age 14, as a copy boy earning $7.50 (about $130.30^[4] in 2023 dollars) a week. In 1929, at age 17, he was hired into the paper's art department.^[1]

In 1932, Wohlschlaeger became the fourth artist to draw the Post-Dispatch's Weatherbird, which was created in 1901 and remains in continuous daily use. He drew the Weatherbird, usually accompanied by a pithy observation on current events, from 1932 to 1981. His Weatherbird marked D-Day, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and many other notable events.^[1] He was succeeded as illustrator by Albert Schweitzer.^[5]

Wohlschlaeger drew his first sports cartoon for the paper in 1936.^[1] Among his contributions was his "Cardinals Camp Capers" cartoon, sent in from spring training.

In 1939, he filled in as the Post-Dispatch's editorial cartoonist, drawing caricatures of Hitler and Mussolini as well as local politicians.^[1]

Wohlschlaeger drew many covers for the Sporting News, which was then produced in St. Louis and known as "The Baseball Bible".^[1][6] He also drew covers for University of Missouri football programs for more than 30 years,^[7] and covers for the annual St. Louis Baseball Writers dinner.^[6]

He was using a technique largely forgotten today. It was Ebony graphite and pencil on something called social board... Amadee actually learned a lot of this stuff from cartoonists in the 1890s. So you can make a direct line back from Amadee to 19th century newspapering almost.

— Dan Martin, Post Dispatch cartoonist dies at 102^[8]

Wohlschlaeger retired in 1981.^[9] He was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.^[7]

Wohlschlaeger was married to Violet Wohlschlaeger; they had a son, Amadee Wohlschlaeger Jr.^[10] Wohlschlaeger died June 24, 2014, in St. Louis County.^[1]