Bayreuther Tagblatt

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Title page of the Bayreuther Tagblatt
from January 2, 1871

The Bayreuther Tagblatt was a regional daily newspaper in Bayreuth . It existed from October 1, 1856 to December 31, 1967. On January 2, 1968 , it merged with the Franconian Press to form the North Bavarian Courier .

history

Bayreuther Tagblatt before merging with the Oberfränkische Zeitung

Carl Gießel, a respected citizen of the city, was the founder and first publisher of the newspaper, which is only called “Tagblatt” in Bayreuth. As a competitor to the Bayreuther Zeitung , presumably founded in 1743, it was an intrepid advocate for the underprivileged in its early years, but avoided frontal and personal attacks on local notables. At the beginning of the 1860s, the daily newspaper had a circulation of around 1500 copies.

After his editor Adolph Hammer had quoted other newspapers that reported more critically and less favorably than the daily newspaper on Richard Wagner , Wagner complained in 1872 to his patron Friedrich Feustel . Gießel then ensured well-meaning reporting. Regarding the desperate material situation of the Bayreuth small-scale weavers , the newspaper wrote, whose submissive appeal to the compassion of the manufacturers as their clients illustrates the great gap between capital and labor. “To initiate remedial action” is the duty of every sentient man.

In the late 19th century, the meanwhile conservative newspaper reported in detail on every ride of the local Chevauxlegers and every theater monzette. The activities of the Social Democrats , who were present again after the repeal of the Socialist Law , were not mentioned.

On the occasion of the Reichstag elections in 1903 , in which the social democratic candidate Karl Hugel and his national liberal rival August Hagen faced each other in a runoff election , the daily newspaper swore “all nationally minded men” on Hagen: Whoever does not vote will favor the candidate of the “ Revolutionary party ”and commit a“ grave injustice to his fatherland ”. It should never come to the point that the constituency falls to a Social Democrat. Friedrich Puchta , editor-in-chief of the social democratic rival newspaper Fränkische Volkstribüne , wrote in 1913 that the "Scourge-Blatt" had always spread the thickest lies as pure truth with an iron forehead and said: "Decency and daily newspaper are irreconcilable opposites".

Until the last days of the First World War , the Bayreuther Tagblatt stood on the side of the monarchy . After the proclamation of the Free People's State of Bavaria by Kurt Eisner , the newspaper wrote on November 9, 1918: “Now may the German people show whether they can really be driven into a movement that destroys everything that laborious years of peace have built up and their development of Russia we saw with a shudder! ”. The next day, a delegation from the Bayreuth Workers 'and Soldiers' Council appeared in the editorial office and demanded a change in the “language of the newspaper”. Editor-in-chief Albert Hoffmann stated on the front page on November 11th that he was bowing to the pressure to allow the newspaper to continue to appear. Any expression of your own opinion will be suspended until further notice.

Upper Franconian Newspaper

In 1868, the Oberfränkische Zeitung was created in competition with the “Tagblatt” as another local daily newspaper . On June 30, 1884, typesetter Lorenz Ellwanger founded a printing company in Bayreuth . Eight years later he acquired the Th. Burger printing company at Maximilianstrasse 60 and merged the two companies to form Lorenz Ellwanger Buch- und Steruckerei vorm. Th. Burger . On September 15, 1896, he secured the publishing rights for the Oberfränkische Zeitung, which had previously been published by Burger . The two local daily newspapers belonged to the bourgeois- conservative camp, but were considered enemies. At the end of 1902 they faced serious competition with the Social Democratic Franconian People's Stand.

Bayreuther Tagblatt in the time of National Socialism

In 1922, the management of the Ellwanger publishing house and printing company passed to Lorenz's son Albert Ellwanger. In 1938 he acquired the publishing rights for the Bayreuther Tagblatt , which included the Oberfränkische Zeitung .

In the course of Hitler's " seizure of power ", Ellwanger sided with the National Socialists . In view of the arrest of social democrats and communists and their transfer to the Dachau concentration camp , the newspaper wrote: “Nobody will cry a tear after the social democratic functionaries who have now happily disappeared. Because they are that class of German contemporaries who must be seen as the bearers of the previous parliamentary-democratic system and who need a thorough and long-term education. "" The Jew Zwirn, who wanted to refuse entry into his apartment and himself with violence resisted, had to be impressively instructed that he had nothing more to report. ”the Bayreuther Tagblatt sneered after the pogrom of November 9, 1938 .

Post-war period and merger with the Franconian press

In 1945 the Bayreuther Tagblatt ceased to appear. The first post-war edition appeared on October 1, 1949 with the headline “Berlin 12th Land of the Federal Republic”.

As early as December 18, 1945, the newspaper and the Franconian press on site had again rivaled the local social democrats. At first, the two papers seemed "to be insurmountable in dislike, and the daily competition was not fought without poison and bile." In 1967 the two daily newspapers threatened to be bought up by a large national paper. Therefore, they merged at the instigation of the then editor Albert Ellwanger jr. and Walter Fischer. Since January 2, 1968, the daily newspaper Nordbayerischer Kurier appears instead .

The widespread circulation of the Bayreuther Tagblatt was 11,553 copies in the 4th quarter of 1957 (sold circulation: 10,997), of which 10,822 were delivered to subscribers.

editorial staff

Among the editors of the Bayreuther Tagblatt was u. a. Bernd Mayer .

Others

A regional online newspaper of the same name has existed since September 10, 2018.

Remarks

  1. ↑ An allusion to the publisher's last name, Scourge

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The publisher sells Kurier shares in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 2./3. April 2016, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Bernd Mayer : Bayreuth as it was. Flash lights from the city's history 1850–1950 . 2nd Edition. Gondrom, Bayreuth 1981, p. 7 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was , p. 20.
  4. ^ W. Bronnenmeyer: Richard Wagner. Citizens in Bayreuth . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1983, p. 140 f .
  5. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was , p. 38.
  6. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was , p. 58.
  7. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was , p. 67.
  8. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was , p. 85.
  9. ^ The last voyage of the regiment in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 10./11. November 2018, p. 25.
  10. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth as it was , p. 31.
  11. ↑ Kurt Herterich: In the heart of Bayreuth . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2005, ISBN 978-3-925361-51-7 , pp. 128 ff .
  12. ↑ Bernd Mayer: The Bauverein makes city history in: 90 years Bauverein Bayreuth, p. 11 f.
  13. ↑ Karl Müssel: Bayreuth in eight centuries , p. 198.
  14. ↑ "Prelude to Genocide" in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of November 9, 2018, p. 13.
  15. ^ Rainer Trübsbach: History of the City of Bayreuth 1194-1994 . Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1993, ISBN 3-922808-35-2 , p. 354 .
  16. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth - The last fifty years . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1988, p. 130 .
  17. ↑ Karl Müssel: Bayreuth in eight centuries. 1993, p. 247.
  18. ↑ List of editions 1957 at ivw.de, accessed on April 6, 2016.
  19. ↑ Bernd and Gerda Mayer: Working and living in Bayreuth . Sutton, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-745-7 , p. 93 .