Allgäuer announcement sheet
The Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt or its predecessor was the first newspaper in the Oberallgäu.
history
On April 2, 1859, the first edition of the weekly newspaper for the district courts of Immenstadt and Sonthofen was published . The Immenstadt artist Franz Xaver Glötzle had lithographed the four pages, the texts of which were in cursive . The first issue contained an editorial about the development and reputation of the Allgäu in the so-called "flat country", business advertisements, stock market prices, flour and bread prices, a train schedule and lottery numbers.
Glötzle and his editor Franz Offner had to stop selling their weekly paper after a few weeks because it was not financially profitable. Glötzle then completed an apprenticeship as a printer in Augsburg , procured a Stanhope hand press and started a second attempt in 1861, after receiving a corresponding license on February 12 of the same year, which was much more successful.
In 1863, the Sonthofen District Office made its paper the official gazette for all municipal and foundation administrations in the district; its format increased in the same year, and it soon changed from a weekly to a newspaper that appeared two and later three times a week. In 1869 the name was changed to Algäuer Amtsbote and from 1870 the content no longer only related to the surrounding area.
The newspaper printing press , which was located on the market square at that time, today's Marienplatz, used a Reichenbach high-speed press from that year .
On July 28, 1873 a storm occurred, as a result of which the water, mud and debris fell through the bed of the Steigbach into the city. The accident claimed several lives and left massive property and building damage. The water in the newspaper printing plant reached the first floor; the paper supplies were lost and the machines etc. were flooded. After the weeklong clean-up work was over, the newspaper appeared again, from the following year even daily.
Around this time, it was renamed Algäuer Anzeigeeblatt . The number of subscribers at that time was 1,800 - in the year of the first edition distributed by lithography, Immenstadt had a total of only about 1,500 inhabitants. In 1875 the print shop moved to a new building at Kirchplatz 6 in Immenstadt.
In 1879 the Algäuer Anzeigeeblatt had 2,800 subscribers. In 1885, now under Franz Xaver Glötzles son-in-law and successor Engelbert Hamann, the company switched from manual to power operation. An Augsburg double machine was purchased, powered by a hot air motor . In 1894 Hamann bought a rotary press , supposedly the first in the whole of the Allgäu.
In 1899 Hamann's sons Max and Baptist took over the publishing house. In 1905 they bought a twin rotary press and a Linotype typesetting machine . In 1918 they sold the company to the Munich banker Anton Mößmer. He redesigned it to Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt GmbH, whose works council met for the first time in 1919.
From 1933 onwards, the Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt , which was no longer just spelled with an l, had to use the subtitle “Oberallgäuer Nationalzeitung”. Franz Glötzle, a grandson of the newspaper founder, who had been editor up until then, retired. His successor was Dr. Valentin Rolzhäuser.
In 1935, Dr. Josef Eberl, who joined the company in 1925. The Board. In 1938 he became a personally liable partner after the National Socialists had forced the conversion of the GmbH into a KG. In the same year Eberl bought a fourth typesetting machine, new fonts and a Frankenthal rotary machine .
During the Second World War , 29 specialists from the printing company were drafted into military service, including Josef Eberl in 1941. The retired Georg Moser took over the management. When Immenstadt was bombed in February 1945, the printing works were not hit, but the power station, the train station and the railway systems were. Since the printing machines were dependent on direct current , the printing of the Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt was outsourced to Kempten , but this was an unsatisfactory solution due to the transport problems. The printer finally received a DC generator on loan from a BMW branch, the capacity of which was sufficient for emergency operation.
In April 1945, took over Wehrmacht - Front newspaper squad the printing and printed there the Front newspaper appeal of the 19th Army . The squad withdrew at the end of April. Moser defended himself vigorously when the important parts of the printing plant were to be expanded and loaded, and in the end he even managed to get the parts that had already been loaded back from the typesetting and rotary machines: he claimed that he would bury them to avoid them to fall into the hands of enemy troops.
A threatened attack by American bombers did not take place because of low clouds and heavy snowstorms, so that Immenstadt and the printing plant were spared further damage.
In the post-war period, all so-called old publishers were banned from working. In the Allgäu, the American occupying power only issued a single newspaper license; this was valid for the Allgäu in Kempten. The Eberl company was allowed to print a district edition of the Allgäu in Immenstadt from 1948 . It was not until 1950 that the Allgäuer announcement sheet could appear again, but now with the subtitle "Allgäuer". 1952 returned to the old title.
In the period after the Second World War, the press landscape changed. Numerous newspaper publishers died. The operators of the Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt had to react.
Josef Eberl died in 1951. In order to keep the company competitive, his wife Helene and his son Helmut expanded the range of printing services and produced catalogs, brochures and books, among other things. New machines were purchased for the color printing required for this. The first offset machine was introduced in 1965, from 1970 phototypesetting was used , and in 1980 lead typesetting was completely abandoned . At this point in time, the Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt had been cooperating for a long time with the Allgäuer newspaper publisher founded in 1968 by Curt Frenzel and Prince Georg von Waldburg-Zeil in Kempten .
In 1996, the Graphische Betriebe Eberl reacted to the Dreamway agency to keep their customers from the tourism industry. Dreamway is an agency for tourism marketing concepts and internet solutions . With the editorial program Site Engine , which was developed in the company, it is possible for customers to update their websites without complications.
In 2001, Graphische Betriebe Eberl GmbH added the Digital Printing Allgäu department to its previous offer in order to be able to make inexpensive offers even for smaller print runs.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Xaver Glötzle. Lithographer, painter, publisher on kultur-oa.de
- ↑ Eberl Medien, 150th supplement to the newspaper Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt of Tuesday, June 23, 2009, No. 141 ( digitized version )