Brunswick messenger
The Braunschweiger Bote was an army group newspaper that was published in German by the 12th Army Group of the US Army in the last days of the Second World War for the population of the city of Braunschweig , which was handed over on April 12, 1945, and for the Free State of Braunschweig . It was the city's first post-war newspaper.
First post-war newspaper in Braunschweig
The last edition of their party organ " Braunschweiger Tageszeitung " published by the National Socialists appeared on April 10, 1945, two days before the US troops marched in.
The first edition of the “Braunschweiger Boten”, with the subtitle “News sheet of the American 12th Army Group. Official ” , appeared on May 4, 1945 and had four pages. Up until June 8, 1945, a total of six four-page issues of the "Boten" were published each week with an unknown number of copies. The local editor was Gerhard Speyer. When Braunschweig became part of the British occupation zone and the US troops withdrew from the city, they handed the newspaper over to the British who were advancing, but they immediately stopped publication due to a lack of paper.
The British occupation authorities had already published the “ Neue Hannoversche Kurier ” from May 29, 1945 in Hanover , which was sent to a Braunschweig regional site from July 10, 1945 onwards, which reported alternately from the state and the city of Braunschweig.
It was not until October 12, 1945 that there was another newspaper that appeared regularly in Braunschweig itself, the “ Braunschweiger Neue Presse ”. The British military authorities were also the editors .
literature
- Britta Berg: Newspapers and magazines from Braunschweig including Helmstedt (until 1810) and Wolfenbüttel (until 1918) , in: Braunschweiger Werkstücke , publications from the city archive and the city library, series A, volume 40, the whole series volume 93, Braunschweig 1995, ISBN 3-930459-08-6 .
- Elisabeth Matz: The newspapers of the US Army for the German population (1944-1946). (= Studies on Journalism, Vol. 12.) CJ Fahle, Münster 1969.
Individual evidence
- ^ Britta Berg: Newspapers and magazines from Braunschweig including Helmstedt (until 1810) and Wolfenbüttel (until 1918) , Braunschweiger Werkstück, Volume 93, Braunschweig 1995, p. 76
- ^ Elisabeth Matz: The newspapers of the US Army for the German population (1944-1946). P. 146.
- ^ Britta Berg: Newspapers and magazines from Braunschweig including Helmstedt (until 1810) and Wolfenbüttel (until 1918) , Braunschweiger Werkstück, Volume 93, Braunschweig 1995, p. 77