People's Watch (Freiburg im Breisgau)

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People's Watch

description Daily newspaper for the working people of Oberbadens
publishing company Cooperative printing company Freiburg i. Br., Entered. Cooperative mb H.
Headquarters Freiburg i. Br., Predigerstrasse 3
First edition July 1, 1911
attitude March 17, 1933
Frequency of publication daily / saturday
Sold edition 16,000 copies
(in 1933, Mon-Fri)
Editor-in-chief Reinhold Zumtobel
ZDB 2888211-8

The Volkswacht , which was subtitled a daily newspaper for the working people of Oberbadens , was a social democratic newspaper that was published in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1911 to 1933 .

When the People's Watch appeared for the first time on July 1, 1911, the Catholic Church in southern Baden reacted promptly and the newspaper was ostracized by the Catholic clergy with a pastoral letter read out on the following day, July 2, 1911.

In 1920 the Freiburger Volkswacht was the German daily newspaper that reported in its editions of March 22nd and 23rd in great detail about the trial before the court martial in Freiburg against Sergeant Digele, who killed Gustav Landauer in Munich on May 2nd, 1919 .

On March 17, 1933, the People's Watch was banned. The pretext for this was that the Social Democratic member of the state parliament, Christian Nussbaum, panicked because of previous threats when a group of police officers broke into his Freiburg apartment between 4 and 5 a.m. and broke the bedroom door. He shot several times and two police officers were fatally wounded. The Volkswacht publishing house in Freiburg was then stormed by members of the NSDAP , SA , SS and Stahlhelm , who threw 16,000 freshly printed newspaper copies on the street and tried to set them on fire. The publishing house was looted and devastated. With that, the journalist and later emigrant Käthe Vordtriede also lost her job. In 2003, her work and commitment with the Käthe-Vordtriede-Weg in the Rieselfeld district was recognized.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heiko Wegmann: Books were also burned by the Nazis in Freiburg . In: Badische Zeitung . August 13, 2013 ( WaybackMachine ( Memento from November 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 22, 2017] March 17, 1933 was a Friday).
  2. ^ Elv: An upright democrat . On the 60th anniversary of the death of Reinhold Zumtobel, honorary citizen in Hausen. In: Badische Zeitung . September 27, 2013 ( WaybackMachine ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed April 22, 2017]).
  3. ^ Konrad Dussel: German daily press in the 19th and 20th centuries . LIT Verlag ", 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6811-7 , p. 101.
  4. ^ German Revolution: Murder of Gustav Landauer ( Memento from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ A b Freiburg's history: The Nussbaum affair
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel of November 1, 1999: A people of top-downs