Augsburger Postzeitung

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The Augsburger Postzeitung (formerly known as the weekly Ordinari-Post-Zeitung and Augspurgische Ordinari-Post-Zeitung ) was a German daily newspaper that was one of the most important Catholic newspapers in Germany until it was banned by the National Socialists in 1935 .

history

"Augspurgische Ordinari-Post-Zeitung" , title page, 1762
Title line of the Sunday supplement, 1845

The origins of the newspaper go back to 1686, when the printer August Sturm der Elder († 1695) from Nördlingen founded a weekly newspaper with a Catholic orientation in Augsburg , which is predominantly Protestant . This weekly Ordinari-Post-Zeitung or Augspurgische Ordinari-Post-Zeitung competed with the evangelical and almost identical title weekly Ordinari-Post-Zeitung by Jakob Koppmayer and appeared from 1717 with five issues a week. After it was taken over by Joseph Anton Moy the Elder († 1813), the Augspurgische Ordinari-Post-Zeitung became the leading newspaper in the southern German-Austrian region from around 1766. At the beginning of the 19th century, the publication achieved its highest circulation rate to date, with around 12,000 copies.

Due to the strict censorship regulations in the Kingdom of Bavaria , the restriction of communications with foreign countries and high postage demands during the so-called "System Montgelas" , the magazine, which since 1833 had been called "Augsburger Postzeitung" , began to decline sharply .

It was not until the middle of the 19th century that the paper, with a clearly conservative-religious line, regained national importance after the Catholic priest Max Huttler (1823–1887) joined the editorial team in 1855 . He acquired the sheet in 1858 and after his death in 1887 it was transferred to the Literary Institute von Haas und Grabherr (Augsburg printing and publishing house), which followed the same religious-political line. Under the editor-in-chief Adolf Haas, the Augsburger Postzeitung campaigned for Catholic principles that were decidedly close to the church, especially during the culture war in the 1870s. " Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon " wrote in 1905 in the typical jargon of the times that it represented "the political direction of the clerical party" .

Even during the Weimar Republic , numerous articles appeared in the Augsburger Postzeitung that dealt critically with the emergence of National Socialism . After the Nazis came to power in 1933, employees and editors were arrested; In 1935 the newspaper was finally banned.

One of the best-known editors of the Augsburger Postzeitung was Hans Rost , who also used the newspaper to promote the work of the adventure writer Karl May .

From 1841 to 1858, the Augsburger Postzeitung also published a religious- fiction Sunday supplement, which was often kept in public libraries - mostly bound to volumes.

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  1. ↑ Other sources go from 1687
  2. ↑ Helmut Gier, Johannes Janota: "Augsburg Book Printing and Publishing from the Beginnings to the Present" , page 1254, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-447-03624-9 ; Scan from the source for August Sturm
  3. ↑ Josef Lange: Position of the national Catholic German daily press (Volume 40 of European University publications: History and its auxiliary sciences), Herbert Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M., 1974, page 175; Excerpt from the source
  4. ↑ Günther Grünsteudel, Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (ed.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4
  5. ↑ Website on the history of the Augsburg publishing house ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtlexikon-augsburg.de
  6. ^ Website of the Augsburger Postzeitung ( Memento of July 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , 6th edition, Volume 2, Leipzig 1905, p. 116
  8. ^ Hans Rost in Augsburg Wiki
  9. ↑ Ibid.
  10. ^ Digitized editions of the Sunday newspaper of the newspaper, volumes 1845, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854