Aargauer Tagblatt

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Aargauer Tagblatt
Aargauer Tagblatt 1969.jpg
description Swiss daily newspaper
publishing company Aargauer Tagblatt AG
First edition May 1, 1847 (as Aarauer Tagblatt )
attitude November 2, 1996
Sold edition last 57,000 copies
(HLS)
Editor-in-chief Franz Straub

The Aargauer Tagblatt was a free-thinking , liberal Swiss daily newspaper in the canton of Aargau between 1847 and November 1996. In 1996 it merged with the Badener Tagblatt to form the Aargauer Zeitung .

history

The newspaper was founded in 1847 by the printer Samuel Landolt as the Aarauer Tagblatt as the first daily newspaper in Aargau. Landolt, who had been sentenced to death as a participant in two free troop trains, but was released, had previously published the weekly newspaper Das Posthörnchen . The daily newspaper, which was small due to the newspaper stamp tax ( circulation : 300 copies), was threatened by the Anzeiger (the later Aargauer Nachrichten ), another newspaper in the same location. In 1856 the newspaper had to be sold to Friedrich Kappeler. After his death, the company passed to Karl Stierli, who renamed the Tagblatt to the Aargauer Tagblatt in 1880 . From 1887 the daily newspaper was the official organ of the liberals. In 1888 the company was converted into a public limited company. At that time the print run was 2,500 copies. After the merger of the Aargau Democrats with the Liberals, the Tagblatt became the party newspaper of the cantonal Liberal Party founded in 1895 . Thanks to the constant expansion of the network of correspondents and the purchase of the Aargauer Nachrichten in 1918, the newspaper developed into the organ of the bourgeoisie in the 20th century.

The paper also tried, unlike its competitor Badener Tagblatt , to increase its circulation through mergers and acquisitions of smaller newspapers. In 1956 it merged with the Neue Aargauer Zeitung . After the Lenzburger Zeitung was discontinued in 1959, its readers were sent the Aargauer Tagblatt with its own regional page. In 1969, the leased Aargauer Tagblatt the Brugger Tagblatt and issued five regional editions.

1973 took over Aargauer Tagblatt the Freiaemter newspaper and launched the Freiaemter Tagblatt . From 1987 it created the local editions Fricktal, Zofingen, Wynental-Suhrental and Niederamt. In 1994, together with the Oltner Tagblatt and the Zofinger Zeitung, it founded the Mittelland-Zeitung to produce a coat .

The Aargauer Tagblatt led until the merger in 1996 during several decades a fierce and often nasty competition with the Tagblatt , especially in the natural dispersion area of the two newspapers, Brugg , the Frick Valley and the free Office . In 1981 and 1991, the Aargauer Tagblatt set up a large commercial print shop and a newspaper house in Aarau's Telli industrial district in two stages. Although at that time the newspaper was the largest daily newspaper in the canton with a circulation of 57,000 copies, these “disastrous large or bad investments in machinery” together with the economic weakness at the time ultimately led to the merger with the Badener Tagblatt . It was preceded by a collaboration on national advertisements ("AG Kombi") and supplements such as the Geneva Motor Show .

The last editor-in-chief was Franz Straub, who also became editor-in-chief of the merged product Aargauer Zeitung .

Fachschriftverlag

From the 1960s to the 1990s, specialist books were published by the Aargauer Tagblatt publishing house (partly as AT Verlag ). Among them in particular books on electrical engineering, such as the Beetle primer of the late 1970s on microcomputer technology. Animal books have also been published.

literature

  • Andreas Müller: History of the political press in Aargau. 19th century. hier + now, publishing house for culture and history, Baden-Dättwil 2002, ISBN 978-3-906419-45-9 .
  • Andreas Müller: History of the political press in Aargau. The 20th century. here + now, Publishing House for Culture and History, Baden-Dättwil 2002, ISBN 978-3-906419-47-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Bollinger: Aargauer Tagblatt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ A b Hans-Peter Widmer: Something new in the west: Start in the canton capital. In: Supplement for the 175th anniversary of AZ Medien. November 9, 2011. p. 23.
  3. From the daily papers to the AZ media. In: Supplement for the 175th anniversary of AZ Medien. November 9, 2011. p. 8.
  4. Hans-Peter Widmer: The thirty-year newspaper war in Aargau. In: Supplement for the 175th anniversary of AZ Medien. P. 16.
  5. Peter Buri: On the art of making one from two newspapers. In: Supplement for the 175th anniversary of AZ Medien. P. 23.
  6. Tender band along the central axis. In: plain text. No. 2, 1992.