Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning

Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning ( Swedish ; Göteborger Handels- und Maritime Newspaper ), initially just Göteborgs Handelstidning , was one of Sweden's large liberal daily newspapers . The newspaper was published between 1832 and 1985.

history

Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning was founded in 1832 by Magnus Prytz as a liberal opposition newspaper against the government of King Charles XIV. Johann . Under the editor-in-chief Sven Adolf Hedlund , the newspaper developed into one of Sweden's most respected newspapers in the second half of the 19th century. Among other things, the writer Viktor Rydberg worked for the newspaper.

Another journalistic heyday was the years 1917–1945 under Torgny Segerstedt. In the 1930s, Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning became the strongest critic of National Socialism and the Swedish government's compliant neutrality policy . The newspaper's articles were regularly quoted on BBC broadcasts and the newspaper was circulated in the resistance movements in Denmark and Norway . The newspaper was seized several times in the 1940s and subjected to severe government repression. Because of this situation and the simultaneous strengthening of the competing Göteborgs-Posten , the newspaper got into financial difficulties, which in 1974 finally led to it being published once a week. In 1985 it was finally discontinued.