Brandenburger Zeitung
Under the title Brandenburger Zeitung , a barely viable bourgeois newspaper appeared in Brandenburg an der Havel from 1886, in competition with the Brandenburger Anzeiger , which was first published in 1809. After the socialist law was repealed , the Brandenburger Zeitung and its facilities were taken over by a group of social democrats led by Ferdinand Ewald at the end of 1890 for a price of 3,750 marks . In the poor backyard of a file-cutting shop at 33 St. Annenstrasse, printing was being carried out above a bakery; opposite, in a barn room with little light, there was an editorial office, office, ad acceptance and newspaper distribution. The publisher operated under the name Ferd. Ewald & Co. After a test print in the Advent season of 1890, the first published edition of the new editors appeared at the beginning of the following year with the addition "Volksblatt für Ost- und Westhavelland, Ruppin, Templin and neighboring districts - organ for the interests of the working classes" .
Two years later, as requested, the newspaper was officially recognized as a party organ of the Social Democrats . The Brandenburger-Zeitung was attributed more to the reformist wing of the SPD .
Headers were the "Potsdamer Volksblatt" and the "Rathenower Tageblatt".
In 1896 Otto Sidow , who was already involved in the founding, took over the management; the publishing house now traded under the name Otto Sidow & Co. and kept this name after his death until the newspaper was banned and the expropriation ordered in September 1933 on the basis of the Nazi law on the confiscation of property that was hostile to the people and the state .
After great initial difficulties, the newspaper had 6,000 subscribers at the turn of the century; three years later the circulation had risen to 15,000 a day. In 1912 the successful newspaper was able to move into a new publishing house in St. Annenstr. 18/20 from Brandenburg an der Havel . The fact that the newspaper, in contrast to its bourgeois competition, the “Brandenburger Anzeiger”, reported regularly from the parliaments in Berlin and Potsdam and from city councils in the area of circulation contributed significantly to the success . The editor of the Brandenburger Zeitung from 1896–97 was a young basket maker named Gustav Noske . In 1907 Erich Baron became managing editor, from 1925 it was the son of the Reich President, Friedrich Ebert jun.
In 1920, during the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch , the newspaper was the particular target of the putschists because of its political direction. At times they kept the publishing house and printing house occupied.
Shortly before the end of the war, the publishing house was destroyed by the effects of the war. The printing works behind him suffered only minor damage; it remained in operation.
In 1945, under the premises of communism , the title Brandenburger Zeitung was not used again. For the new rulers it sounded too bourgeois, and the Volksblatt subtitle was not agitating enough. On top of that, the SED party press was organized differently, initially according to the five countries, and after the reorganization of the GDR into 14 districts in 14 district newspapers. In the Potsdam district, in which Brandenburg an der Havel was located, the Märkische Volksstimme appeared , popularly referred to as the 'complaining voice '. This was replaced by the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung - (MAZ) - after reunification in 1990 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt Koszyk / Gerhard Eisfeld: “Die Presse der Deutschen Sozialdemokratie”, Bonn 1966, p. 82.