Berliner Volksblatt
| Berliner Volksblatt | |
|---|---|
| description | Organ for the interests of the workers |
| publishing company | Editing and Expedition Berlin (Germany) |
| First edition | 1884 |
| attitude | 1890 |
| Frequency of publication | six times a week |
| Editor-in-chief | Wilhelm Blos , Paul Singer |
| ZDB | 961824-7 |
The Berliner Volksblatt was an organ for the interests of the workers in Berlin . The newspaper appeared on March 30, 1884 as a sample number and as a periodical six times a week from April 1, 1884 (1st year) to December 31, 1890 (7th year). The predecessor was the Berliner Arbeiter-Zeitung from 1882 to 1883. From 1888 the Berliner Volksblatt was a Sunday supplement for the Sunday newspaper for science, instruction and entertainment in Berlin.
history
In order to provide the party base with a social democratic paper, a local newspaper in Berlin was needed. On behalf of the SPD executive committee , Paul Singer founded and financed the Berliner Volksblatt in 1884 and was its publisher with Wilhelm Blos . The magazine was founded during the so-called Socialist Law , which was in force from 1878 to 1890. During this time one had to be careful with critical statements against the government, because the socialist law (also exceptional law) allowed bans of socialist parties, organizations and pamphlets as well as political assemblies. During this time, countless social democratic magazines were banned. The Berliner Volksblatt escaped the ban by acting skilfully .
After the Socialist Law expired in 1890, this newspaper was the basis for the re-establishment of Vorwärts , the central organ of the SPD. From January 1, 1890, it was called Vorwärts - Berliner Volksblatt - the central organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . The first editor-in-chief was Wilhelm Liebknecht .
Employees (selection):
- Curt Baake (1864-1940)
- Wilhelm Hasenclever (1837-1889)
- Otto Zonschitz
- Franz Mehring (1846-1919)
- Georg Ledebour (1850–1947)
literature
- Forward. Berliner Volksblatt Central organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. 7. Extra edition: The agreement between the two social democratic parties has been reached. Contributors: Friedrich Ebert , Hugo Haase , Philipp Scheidemann , Wilhelm Dittmann , Otto Landsberg , Emil Barth . 1918.
- Werner Saerbeck: The press of the German social democracy under the socialist law. Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, 271 pp.
Web links
- Berliner Volksblatt digital
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the revolutionary Berlin workers' movement . Volume 1. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-320-00825-0 , p. 340.