Heilbronn Newspaper

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Title head of the Heilbronner Zeitung on October 7, 1890

The Heilbronner Zeitung was a regional daily newspaper that appeared in Heilbronn from 1879 . From 1920 it was called Heilbronner Abend-Zeitung until it was discontinued in 1934 in favor of the National Socialist daily Heilbronner Tagblatt .

The first documented edition of the Heilbronner Zeitung appeared on January 1, 1879 in the publishing house of Heinrich Güldig , who was also its printer and editor. Güldig took over the democratic Heilbronner daily newspaper Neckar-Dampfschiff from August Ruoff in 1848 and since then, in competition with the bourgeois-conservative Neckar-Zeitung, has constantly published democratically oriented newspapers for Heilbronn, which frequently changed their name, format and appearance. Heilbronner Zeitung had already been the subtitle of the Neckar steamship. From August 1879, Güldig was no longer the publisher, editor and printer of the Heilbronner Zeitung, but Georg Ehrat; Güldig gradually withdrew from the publishing business and finally moved to Großgartach . The Oberamt Heilbronn reported that the newspaper seemed to be deviating from its previous democratic direction.

Whether and under what name the newspaper appeared in the following years is not clear due to war losses in archives and libraries, but in 1882 it can still be found in the Heilbronn address book. In 1888, Franz Lipp took over the editing and publishing of the Heilbronner Zeitung, the year of which began with the 1st year of 1888.

Lipp had written for the democratic observer in Stuttgart and appeared for the first time as a democratic speaker in Heilbronn in 1885. He also had political ambitions and in the state elections in 1889 in the Heilbronn constituency, he was narrowly defeated by the conservative councilor Gottlieb Wagner from Großgartach.

The paper now had the motto Equal Rights for All and Independent of Berlin . Lipp was extremely argumentative; Hans Franke describes him as a “polemical, often unobjective journalist” and writes that he and his editorial team were “in an uninterrupted feud with, one can say, all of Heilbronn”. The main enemy of Lipp was the controversial Mayor of Heilbronn, Paul Hegelmaier ; but also the bourgeois Neckar-Zeitung, its publisher and editor-in-chief Hermann Schell and the two lawyers Moegling and Kleine, whom Lipp counted to a “triumvirate”, he regularly covered with scorn and ridicule. Lipp's opponents reported him several times for insulting. He was arrested in 1889 on suspicion of perjury , but was acquitted.

In 1894 the Heilbronner Zeitung publishing house switched to the Carl-Wilhelm Fischer & Carl Wulle printing company . Wulle had previously been an editor at the competing Neckar-Zeitung, but continued to run the Heilbronner Zeitung along the lines of the People's Party , only without Franz Lipp's scornful and insulting tendency. In 1919 he became the Württemberg state chairman of the People's Party successor, the German Democratic Party (DDP). From 1919 Willy Dürr from Esslingen also worked in the editorial office, a good friend and party friend of the future Federal President Heuss . In 1920 Wulle sold the Heilbronner Zeitung to Viktor Kraemer, the publisher of the competing Neckar-Zeitung . Kraemer changed the title of the Heilbronner Zeitung to Heilbronner Abend-Zeitung . Willy Dürr remained editor and continued to run the newspaper in the spirit of the DDP.

With the Neckar-Zeitung, the Heilbronner Abend-Zeitung and the nationally conservative Heilbronner General-Anzeiger , three newspapers were published by Kraemers ; The fourth Heilbronn daily was the Neckar-Echo of the SPD , founded in 1907 . The Heilbronner Tagblatt of the NSDAP appeared for the first time in 1932 . After the takeover by the Nazis a "beat in November 1933 Rollkommando " the Kreisleiter richard drauz the publisher Kraemer and broke him with a knuckle-duster , the nasal bone . Kraemer hoped to at least be able to continue running the Neckar-Zeitung, but after further reprisals he sold his publishing house to the Heilbronner Tagblatt in February 1934. The Abend-Zeitung and the General-Anzeiger were discontinued on March 1, 1934, the Neckar-Zeitung ran under NSDAP direction and renamed the Heilbronner Morgenpost (on January 1, 1935) until July 31, 1937 and then became also discontinued. After the Neckar-Echo of the SPD had already been banned in 1933, the NSDAP Heilbronner Tagblatt remained Heilbronn's only newspaper until 1945.

During the American occupation, a newspaper appeared again in Heilbronn for the first time in 1946. In three sample issues of March 16 and 19, 1946, it was still called Heilbronner Zeitung . However, since the Americans only allowed newspaper titles that had not been used before, it became the Heilbronn Voice, first published on March 28, 1946 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Fuchs: The "Neckar Steamship" in Heilbronn. An investigation into the history of communication. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1985, DNB 861205537 , pp. 41–43 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. 16)
  2. ↑ ZDB -ID 125549-6 that Heilbronner newspaper in the journal database
  3. ↑ ZDB -ID 130536-0 , The Watcher in the journal database
  4. ↑ Franke (see literature), p. 261

literature

  • Hans Franke : 200 years of newspaper history in Heilbronn . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn: 23rd publication, Heilbronn 1960, pp. 243-276
  • Uwe Jacobi: 250 years of Heilbronn press. History of the media in the Unterland and Hohenlohe 1744–1994 . Verlag Heilbronner Voice, Heilbronn am Neckar 1993, ISBN 3-921923-11-5 ( Heilbronner Voice: Book Series. Volume 5), pp. 41–44, 70–71, 79–80, 84, 88–90

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