Official Linz newspaper

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Official Linz newspaper
Official Linz newspaper (logo) .jpg
language German
publishing company Printer of the Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government (Austria)
First edition 1676/1924/1927
Article archive 1928-1938, 1945-1947

The official Linzer Zeitung is an Austrian magazine that has been published every 14 days in Linz since July 11, 1924 . The media owner is the state of Upper Austria , the publisher is the office of the Upper Austrian state government. The subheading of the Official Linzer Zeitung is the Official Gazette for Upper Austria .

history

At the beginning of the 20th century, the official gazettes valid in Upper Austria were still published by the regional district authorities . In 1924, for reasons of quality and economy, the publication of the official gazette was centralized in the Upper Austrian provincial government. The paper was aimed primarily at municipal offices , gendarmerie commands , parish offices and school administrators . "These general decrees of the state government and the state school board will no longer come to their attention through the district administration or the district school board, but directly through the official gazette, which will significantly simplify and accelerate the course of business." The paper was also aimed at lawyers, notaries, doctors and large commercial and agricultural companies.

In 1927, the Official Journal followed in the footsteps of the “historic” Linzer Zeitung , which had recently been discontinued and was last published by the Catholic Press Association . The traditional Linzer Zeitung, attested since 1677, was transformed into an official organ and was now used by the print shop of the Office of the Upper Austrian. State government established.

In the first few years, the content was divided into official (job advertisements, awarding of titles), excerpts from laws and regulations, health care (infectious diseases), teaching (list of post-free teachers who can be ordered by the district school authorities; teacher qualification test, teachers' academy, exclusion of students, book advertisements) , Social welfare (collective agreements, support for the poor and the disabled), veterinary affairs (animal diseases such as swine fever or anger, cattle inspection), economic matters (tax calendars, company cancellations, settlements and bankruptcies, auctions) and researching people who have committed criminal offenses.

From 1933 on, newspaper bans increased in the security section, and from 1938 on, books were also banned.

War years

With the invasion of the Wehrmacht in Austria, difficult times began for the official Linzer Zeitung. From spring 1938 to 1939 the governor of the Upper Danube was the publisher, and in 1940 the printing company of the Reichsgau Upper Danube . The editors of the Austrian press, who, like their German colleagues, were now called editors, had to have themselves entered in the editors' list of professions as a prerequisite for their professional approval, which was linked to certain conditions and what the NSDAP officials decided on. From January 1940 the Official Linzer Zeitung published the supplement Ordinance Gazette for the governor's area of ​​responsibility for the Upper Danube Gau , which was counted in pieces instead of sequences. In May 1940, the two papers swapped roles, and until 1945 the Linzer Zeitung was only a supplement to the ordinance and official gazette for the Reichsgau Oberdonau , with the title “ Public Gazette” (formerly the Official Linzer Newspaper) .

Recent history

After the end of the war in 1945, the Linzer Zeitung was published as a few-page edition with the new title Upper Austrian Official Gazette . The first edition in 1946 returned to the traditional title of the Official Linzer Newspaper .

In the course of time, modernizations were carried out such as cover photos in 1971, color shades in 1975, multi-colored cover photos in 1978. Layout and quality were continuously modernized and improved in the following years.

The Linzer Zeitung is regarded as the oldest, currently still existing periodical in the world , only Haarlem's Dagblad has a continuous tradition that is 20 years longer. The description of the Official Linzer Zeitung as the oldest official medium in the world is misleading because the Wiener Zeitung has been an official government newspaper since 1812. Instead, one would have to correctly speak of the official medium with the world's oldest history.

Header

The headline of the official Linzer Zeitung:

  • 1924 Official Gazette of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government
  • 1927 Official Linz newspaper
  • 1931 Official Linz newspaper. Official Journal for Upper Austria
  • 1938 (from August 5th) Official Linz newspaper. Official journal for Upper Danube
  • 1940 (from May 3) public gazette (formerly the official Linzer newspaper)
  • 1945 Upper Austrian Official Gazette
  • Official Linzer newspaper since 1946 . Official Journal for Upper Austria

content

The official Linzer Zeitung is after the Upper Austria. Announcement Act 1977 organized and intended for the promulgation of legal ordinances, administrative ordinances, service instructions and instructions of the governor, the provincial government and other authorities. In addition, the official Linzer Zeitung is available for other notifications that are in the public interest.

The content is divided into two parts, with the news from the various departments of the state government forming the first part. These political, economic, social and cultural reports are gladly picked up and distributed by the Upper Austrian daily and weekly newspapers.

The second half ( official part ) is made up of the following sections:

  • Regulations
  • Tenders for orders from the state administration and the municipal administrations with entry deadlines (closing dates) and performance deadlines
  • Job advertisements from the state government
  • Other advertisements
  • Investigations by the district authorities in administrative criminal matters

format

The official Linzer Zeitung appears every two weeks with a circulation of around 3,000 copies.

Since July 2012, the first part (news) of the current issue can be downloaded free of charge from the homepage of the Official Linzer Zeitung. Subscribers also have access to the official tenders and announcements as well as to older issues in the archive via their own code.

A copy of the official Linzer Zeitung is available in the Upper Austrian State Library in Linz.

literature

  • Office of the Upper Austrian State Government - Press Department (Ed.): 350 years of the official Linzer Zeitung. The oldest periodical in the world. Festschrift. Linz 1980, DNB 810141558 , therein:
    Peter Baumgartner: The founding history of the official Linzer newspaper. Pp. 5-8.
    Peter Baumgartner: The ReichsPresseschaf. Pp. 27-29.

Web links

Commons : Official Linzer Zeitung  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut W. Lang (Ed.): Austrian Retrospective Bibliography (ORBI). Row 2: Austrian Newspapers 1492–1945. Volume 2: Helmut W. Lang, Ladislaus Lang, Wilma Buchinger: Bibliography of the Austrian newspapers 1621–1945. AT THE. Edited at the Austrian National Library. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23384-1 , p. 85.
  2. ↑ Preface. In: Official Journal of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government. Linz on July 11, 1924, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Baumgartner 1980, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Baumgartner 1980, p. 27.
  5. ↑ Baumgartner 1980, p. 28.
  6. ↑ a b Baumgartner 1980, p. 6.
  7. ↑
    Commons : Official Linzer Zeitung  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  8. ↑ Baumgartner 1980, p. 7.
  9. ↑ Official Linzer Zeitung now also appears online on derStandard.at from July 10, 2012.