Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger

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The Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger - “Central Organ for the Reich Capital” - was a Berlin daily newspaper founded by August Scherl as an advertising paper in 1883 , the editorial office of which was in the Berlin newspaper district on Zimmerstrasse on the site of today's Axel Springer Campus .

history

Foundation and development under Scherl

The Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger , referred to in the subtitle as “Central Organ for the Reich Capital”, was a completely new type of newspaper in the Berlin media landscape because of the innovative financing through advertisements and the resulting very low selling price and is considered a pioneer of the General-Anzeiger . For the first time, messages were also checked for accuracy here. On November 3, 1883, the first edition of the free scoreboard appeared with an initial circulation of 200,000 copies, which were distributed by 2000 delivery men in the city. The paper was initially only published weekly on Sunday, later three times a week. From 1885 the newspaper appeared daily, from 1899 because of the fierce competition on the Berlin newspaper market twice a day as a morning and evening edition, but initially remained free of charge apart from a small delivery fee.

Diplomatic assessment of the impact of the false news from Karl Wenninger one day later

In line with the views of its founder, political reporting was nationally conservative, and the gazette also frequently reported on patriotic issues such as the naval association . Due to indebtedness, Scherl sold some shares in 1888, since then the publisher has been the “Berliner Lokal Anzeiger August Scherl Compagnie”. In the decades around the turn of the century, the Anzeiger was one of 15 daily newspapers in Berlin and was always one of the highest-circulation newspapers. Around 1902, the liberal Berliner Morgenpost from Ullstein Verlag caught up with the circulation of the Lokal-Anzeiger. In 1913/14 Scherl withdrew from his press ventures.

False news in the July crisis

In the highly tense political situation in the last days of July crisis after the declaration of war of Austria-Hungary to Serbia and then made Russian partial mobilization of the left Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger in the early afternoon of July 30, 1914 around 14.30 a prepared extra edition with the Print the headline “The decision has been made!” In which he spread the false news that Kaiser Wilhelm II had ordered the immediate mobilization of German troops. Although this was immediately denied by the Foreign Office and the newspaper itself withdrew in the evening (the extra edition was "distributed through gross mischief"), the report was made against the background of the hectic news situation by various domestic and foreign actors, including allegedly the Russian embassy in Berlin , believed to be true. It is still unclear to what extent this false report had an influence on the decision of Tsar Nicholas II to declare general mobilization for the Russian Empire that same afternoon , which immediately triggered the outbreak of the First World War .

Part of the Hugenberg press

Extra sheet from noon on March 13, 1920 with a report on the Kapp Putsch

From August 1914 to December 1918, the Lokalanzeiger published the illustrated German war newspaper every week .

In 1916 a finance group of Ruhr industrialists under the leadership of Alfred Hugenberg took over the Berlin Scherl publishing house for 6.1 million gold marks . Since then, the newspaper has been under the control of Hugenberg and has become an important part of the national-conservative Hugenberg group .

During the November Revolution on November 9, 1918, against Rosa Luxemburg's wishes, left-wing forces occupied the editorial office of the Lokal-Anzeiger and published the first two issues of the later communist party organ, Die Rote Fahne , using the newspaper's sentence . On November 11th, military units loyal to the government occupied the publishing house, so the newspaper appeared in its old form two days later.

The End

In 1944 the NSDAP took over the Scherl-Verlag for 64.1 million Reichsmarks from Alfred Hugenberg. The Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger was merged with the Berliner Morgenpost and banned by the Allied Control Council after the defeat of the German Reich in 1945 .

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  1. ↑ a b c d Virtual tour through the Berlin newspaper district, station 14 . Initiative Berliner Zeitungsviertel eV, accessed on July 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ Kurt Koszyk : Anticipation of Coming Disaster. The famous extra sheet d. “Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger” of July 30, 1914. In: Publik , vol. 2 (1969), No. 13 of March 28, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : A false report destroys the last trust. In: Die Welt , July 30, 2014, accessed on July 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ Fake news has not just been around since the Internet age. In: Der Westen , January 8, 2017, accessed July 15, 2019.
  5. ^ German war newspaper - digitized by Heidelberg University Library
  6. ↑ a b Hugenberg: Eye miraculously mild. In: Der Spiegel 45/1964, November 4, 1964, pp. 89-95 (here: p. 89).
  7. ↑ Archival documentation: ZDB -ID 1442658-4