Bremen news
The Bremer Nachrichten is a daily newspaper published by the Bremer Tageszeitungen publishing house and is regularly published early in the morning on Monday to Saturday in Bremen . Together with the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung , the Palatinate Merkur and the Hanauer Anzeiger, it is one of the four oldest newspapers still published in Germany , making it the seventh oldest daily newspaper in the world that is still published.
history
The Bremen Weekly News appeared from January 7, 1743 to December 31, 1853 . The Bremen Senate commissioned Postmaster Johann Schweling in 1741 to publish an intelligence paper. The oldest surviving copy appeared on January 7, 1743 as an advertising paper. In 1749, council printer Friedrich Meier took over the publication. The Ratsdruckerei was closed in 1837 and on January 1, 1838 Gustav Bernhard Schünemann took over the printing of the Bremen Weekly News . The publisher Gustav Bernhard Schünemann (1815–1865) succeeded in 1860 in taking over the newspaper entirely.
1854-1933
In 1854 the newspaper was renamed Bremer Nachrichten . At first the newspaper remained an advertising paper . It appeared as a daily newspaper from 1871 . By 1900 the number of subscribers rose to 25,000. In the 1920s the newspaper was liberal with an increasing tendency to be conservative. Conflicts with the social democratic Bremer Volkszeitung and also the Bremer Zeitung of the NSDAP shaped the press landscape in Bremen.
Nazi era
During the Nazi era, the newspaper adapted. But she got increasing difficulties with the newspaper sponsored by the Nazi regime. The Bremer Nachrichten had to accept a 51% stake from a NS publisher. From October 1, 1934 to 1944, the title was Bremer Nachrichten mit Weser-Zeitung . In 1936, the two publishers Walther Schünemann (1896–1974) and Carl Eduard Schünemann II (1894–1980) were excluded from the Reich Press Chamber by the Reichsleiter for the Press Max Amann (NSDAP) . Carl Schünemann secured the existence of the publishing house by joining the NSDAP in 1937 . The circulation rose to 60,000 pieces. At the end of the Second World War , the Weser newspaper was discontinued due to a lack of a license from the military government.
Since 1945
The buildings were damaged in World War II, the facilities were confiscated in 1945 and used by the Weser-Kurier , who is licensed alone . The newspaper did not appear between 1945 and September 19, 1949 because the publisher and publisher did not receive a license from the occupying powers. First the newspaper appeared under the title Bremer Nachrichten with Nordsee-Zeitung . After the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, license-free freedom of the press was restored, and from 1949 the Bremer Nachrichten tried to establish itself as a bourgeois-liberal daily newspaper. The Schünemann-Verlag took on the editors of the North German newspaper Friedhelm and Friedrich Pörtner as partners in the renamed company "Schünemann & Pörtner". From September 1949 to the beginning of the 1970s, the civil papers Bremer Nachrichten and the Bremerhavener Nordsee-Zeitung worked together. The newspaper could not lose its conservative image, even if in the 1960s young journalists supported the “optimistic mood” of that time.
On November 29, 1951, Erich von Halacz committed a parcel bomb attack on the Bremer Nachrichten , in which the editor-in-chief Adolf Wolfard was killed and his secretary and the newspaper's column editor were seriously injured. The assassin had previously tried in vain for an editorial traineeship .
In the long run, the Bremer Nachrichten was unable to catch up with the Weser-Kurier's competition . In 1974, Schünemann tried to sell his publishing house to Axel Springer AG . After protests from Pörtner, the workforce and the IG Druck und Papier union , a “Bremen” solution was found.
Bremer Nachrichten at the Weser Courier
The Bremer Nachrichten was taken over by Weser-Kurier GmbH in 1974 on the condition that it kept its own editorial team and that no redundancies were issued for operational reasons . Outwardly, the Bremer Nachrichten newspaper differed from the Weser-Kurier for many years through the pictures on the front page. In the opinion of the competition paper, illustrations on the first page were considered dubious. The advertising marketing of both newspapers operated under the common brand "Bremer Werbungblock". Since then, advertisers have only been able to use both titles. In the 1980s, the Bremer Nachrichten had a circulation of around 35,000 and were mainly distributed in Bremen-Nord and Bremen-Schwachhausen.
In the course of time there was an increasing alignment with the Weser-Kurier . First of all, national pages (economy, culture, miscellaneous, Lower Saxony, etc.) were designed together. In 1987 the local parts were also merged. An important piece of independence was lost when Dietrich Ide, long-time editor-in-chief, retired in 2008 and a joint management for the two daily newspapers was appointed as his successor. The two newspapers initially differed in the first two to four pages, and in the end only in individual photos or comments. By August 2010 at the latest, the front pages were identical except for the upper part.
The company's own website was given up after a redesign in September 2009, the internet address “bremer-nachrichten.de” redirects to the “weser-kurier.de” homepage. The Bremer Tageszeitungen AG publishing house offers historical editions of the Bremer Nachrichten on its website .
The Bremen daily papers AG brought the occasion of the 275th anniversary of the Bremer Nachrichten published a 56-page anniversary issue.
See also
Web links
- Bremer-Nachrichten.de , former website, today forwarded to Weser-Kurier.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sitting innocently . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1949 ( online - report with quotations from the Nordsee-Zeitung ).
- ↑ Erich von Halacz - Der Täter ( memento from September 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), on www.radiobremen.de
- ^ Eckhard Stengel: newspaper landscape. Creeping death . Frankfurter Rundschau , August 22, 2010. Accessed August 23, 2010.