Eastern Switzerland

This article is about the newspaper; for the major Swiss region and region, see Eastern Switzerland

Eastern Switzerland was a Catholic newspaper for St. Gallen and the two Appenzell founded in 1874 during the flare-up of the Kulturkampf .

For decades, the CVP -Postille had a loyal readership and, with the editors-in-chief Carl Doka , Edgar Oehler and Marco Volken, also had prominent figures at the top. The newspaper got into trouble as the Kulturkampf subsided and political attitudes became more plural. The Eastern Switzerland managed the balancing act between party Journal and Forum newspaper not.

The immediate cause for the end in December 1997 was the withdrawal of the Wiler Zeitung from the OK-advertisement combination. This combination was weakened so much that a continuation would no longer have made sense. The remaining 20,000 subscribers went to the St. Galler Tagblatt for around 6 million francs .

Web links

• Ernst Bollinger: Eastern Switzerland, Die. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Marcel Elsener: The last days of «Eastern Switzerland» . In: St. Galler Tagblatt , December 20, 2017.
• Digitized collection of Eastern Switzerland, 1874–1900, on e-newspaperarchives.ch