Bremen newspaper industry

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Most of the Bremen newspapers have appeared regularly since the 17th century. In chronological order the publication of is periodically appearing newspapers in Bremen and Bremerhaven as well as in Bremen territory shown in a reference to Bremen as a duchy, as a state and its cities.

17th and 18th centuries

The history of newspapers begins after the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg (1445) at the beginning of the 17th century, when the Frankfurter Postzeitung was created in Germany around 1615 and the Einkommende Zeitung was the first daily newspaper to appear in Leipzig in 1650 . In the 18th century, magazines in particular experienced a heyday; Daily newspapers remained an exception. Mainly advertising papers were published in Bremen. It was only at the end of the 18th century that the importance of the news newspaper increased in Bremen as the forerunner of the daily newspaper. The following newspapers appear in Bremen:

Bremen Weekly News from 1743
  • The Ordinari postal newspaper appeared between 1632 and 1641 and was printed by members of the Köhler family.
  • The Dingstägige Post-Zeitung was published around 1692/1694 to 1741 as a current newspaper and was printed by Hermann Brauer.
  • The first Bremer Zeitung came out after the Post-Zeitung from 1741 to 1812 (according to other information from 1742) and was also a news newspaper that was published and printed by the widow Brauer and the council printer Meier.
  • The weekly question and display news appeared around 1741 and 1742.
  • The Bremen Weekly News followed from January 7, 1743 to December 31, 1853, with an interruption during the French period . Gustav Bernhard Schünemann (1815–1865) managed to take over this advertising paper in the 19th century.
  • The new contributions to the pleasure of the mind and wit were known as a weekly magazine under the term Bremen contributions . The magazine was founded in 1744 by the writer Karl Christian Gärtner ; she appeared in Bremen and Leipzig a . a. published by Nathanael Saurmann.

19th century

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Bremen Weekly News and the Bremer Zeitung were the most important newspapers in the region. In addition to the advertising newspapers, the importance of the daily newspapers increased from the middle of the 19th century; This is how the Bremer Nachrichten became a daily newspaper. The largest publishers  - including newspapers - were Carl Schünemann and his heirs and Leopold von Vangerow at the mouth of the Weser. The provincial newspaper and the Nordsee-Zeitung dominated from 1853 and 1866 increasingly the newspaper landscape in Geestemünde , Lehe and Bremerhaven was founded in 1827; the places were independent communities for a long time. A large number of small leaves often only stimulated the market for a short time. Only after the end of the Socialist Law in the German Empire was the SPD allowed to publish the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung in Bremen in 1890 . It appeared in the 19th century:

  • The Journal du Département des Bouches du Weser appeared in German as a newspaper for the department of the Weser estuaries and in French during the French period in Bremen . On February 1, 1812, the French Empire decreed that only this newspaper was allowed to appear in the Départements des Bouches du Weser , which was published by October 26, 1813. The journal was printed by the Schüneman printing company, founded in 1810, as well as by Heyse and Jöntzen.
  • The first Neue Bremer Zeitung emerged from the journal in 1813. It was also printed by Schünemann from 1813 to 1815. The rights to the newspaper were transferred to the Heyse bookstore.
    • The second Bremer Zeitung emerged from the Neue Bremer Zeitung and appeared from 1815 to 1848. The publisher of the liberal newspaper for North Germany was Johann Georg Heyse . It passed to Gebr. Jänecke from Hanover and from 1872 the Hannoversche Kurier developed from it .
  • A newspaper from the camp was published in 1813 by Major General Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn .
  • The German observer was temporarily relocated from Hamburg to Bremen for a year in 1814.
  • The Bürgerfreund or Bremer Bürgerfreund appeared weekly from 1814 to 1866, until 1842 by the Georg Jöntzen printer, then by the publisher and printer Wilhelm Wulff. The mixed-content magazine dealt with Bremen's cultural history research and printed various lithographs.
  • The Bremer Unterhaltungsblatt existed from 1820 to 1857.
  • The Bremisches Magazin was published by F. Donandt from 1830 to 1834.
  • The Bremen church messenger was published weekly from 1832 to 1847 in the Wilhelm Kaiser bookshop.
  • Headline of Bremerleher's weekly advertisements No. 71/1843
    The Bremerleher weekly advertisements came out in 1842 as a weekly newspaper, from 1846 onwards they were called weekly advertisements for Lehe , the surrounding area and country sausages , from 1848 the Mitteiler on the Lower Weser , from 1861 on the Volksblatt on the North Sea and from 1862 on the Volksblatt on the Weser . The paper was an advertising paper and at times also an intelligence paper with political news. The publisher was the Pro-Prussian printer Paul Friedrich Lamberti , who resided in Lehe and then in Bremerhaven. Although the sheet was published in Lehe to avoid the failure of a permit from Bremen, it was mainly intended for the Bremerhaven area. The newspaper was sold to the Nordsee-Zeitung in 1869 .
  • The Weser-Zeitung was published by Schünemann Verlag from 1844 to 1942 (1918 to 1923: Bremer Zeitungsverlag, 1923: Verlag Weser-Zeitung). It was a liberal business and trade journal. From 1886 to 1917 (†) Emil Fitger was its chief editor-in-chief.
  • The Courier on the Weser was published from 1846 to 1906 and was only called Courier from 1863 to 1886 and Bremer Courier from 1886 to 1906 . NA Ordemann was the publisher until 1904 and the Bremer Zeitungsgesellschaft until 1906 .
  • The weekly magazine for Vegesack and the surrounding area was an intelligence paper from 1846 to 1859 and from 1860 political news was also reported under the name Vegesack weekly magazine . In 1885 it went to the Norddeutsche Volkszeitung .
  • Political weekly for the area of ​​the Lower Weser and Elbe was the name of a liberal anti-Prussian paper by the publisher Horney in 1849, which Lamberti printed in Lehe.
  • The Bremen observer appeared from 1849 to 1855 and went into the Bremer Tageblatt .
  • The Vegesack weekly newspaper was published from 1849 to 1860.
  • The second Neue Bremer Zeitung appeared from 1849 to 1853 as a conservative paper and was printed by Johann Georg Heyse until 1851 (like the Bremer Zeitung from 1815 to 1848) and by Georg Hunckel until 1853.
  • The daily chronicle brought out from 1849 to 1851 Georg Hunckel. The theologian and revolutionary Rudolph Dulon reported in the democratic paper .
  • The Bremer Volksfreund was printed from 1849 to 1851 as a magazine and in 1852 as a democratic newspaper.
  • The Bremer Handelsblatt appeared from 1851 to 1883. From 1861 to 1866, Arwed Emminghaus was the newspaper's editor.
  • The weekly newspaper for Bremerhaven and the surrounding area appeared from 1852 to 1854 by the publishing house of J. G. Heyse. The Provinzial-Zeitung took over the paper in 1854.
Headline of the Provinzial-Zeitung of November 3, 1864

* From 1853 to 1926, the Provinzial-Zeitung was also the display for the Royal High Court District of Lehe . I. W. Möller from Lehe printed and published the pro Hanoverian Anzeiger. In 1854 J. G. Heyse bought the newspaper and in 1855 the Heyse bookstore was taken over by the printer Otto Remmler and the publisher Leopold von Vangerow. In 1889 the sheet went to Otto Remmler jun. From 1926 the newspaper Wesermünde was called Latest News .

Lettering of the Bremer Nachrichten
  • The Bremer Nachrichten came out for the first time as a follow-up newspaper to the Bremer Wochen Nachrichten in 1854 as an advertising paper. With the inclusion of the Bremen Weekly News , it should be the third oldest newspaper still published in Germany. It appeared as a daily newspaper from 1871 to 1944 and from September 19, 1949. The publisher was Schünemann Verlag until 1974, which sold the then liberal-conservative newspaper to Weser-Kurier GmbH . From the 1980s onwards, the Bremer Nachrichten increasingly lost its independence (see also Weser-Kurier , 1945).
  • The Bremen Foreign Gazette was available from 1854 to 1860 and was published and printed by G. Hunkel.
  • The Morgen-Zeitung, also a ( general ) weekly chronicle , was published in 1854 and 1855 by Ordemann.
  • The Bremer Tageblatt was from 1855 to 1859 successor to the Bremer observer . It was published and printed by Heinrich Strack.
  • The correspondence sheet for Bremerhaven was published in 1856 and, like the Provinzial-Zeitung, was published by Leopold von Vangerow.
  • The Bremen weekly newspaper was created in 1859 by Moritz Lindemann.
  • The Telegraph appeared from 1859 to 1863, and from 1859 by Schünemann. It was sold to the Courier on the Weser by Ordemann.
  • The Volksblatt an der Nordsee was published  and printed by Lamberti from 1861 to 1869 - from 1862 under the name Volksblatt an der Weser - (see above in 1842 at Bremerlehe ).
  • The Grenzbote was the official gazette of the offices of Blumenthal and Lilienthal from 1862 to 1872 and was published and printed by W. Vonnoh. In 1872 it became part of the weekly for Vegesack and the surrounding area , which existed as Vegesack weekly until 1885.
  • The Bremer Morgenpost from 1863 to 1870 emerged from the Telegraph . The liberal newspaper had changing publishers.
  • The Bremer Kirchenblatt was published weekly from 1865 to 1928 by the Bremen Evangelical Church . Then from 1929 to 1931 the Bremen church monthly books and from 1928 to 1941 the Bremen church newspaper came out.
Headline of the Nordsee-Zeitung of Jan. 7, 1871
  • The Nordsee-Zeitung was founded in Geestemünde in 1866 by the mayor Johann Bohls and AE Lachmann. The first bourgeois-liberal and then German-national newspaper was sold in 1901 to the Provinzial-Zeitung of Geestemünde . In 1947 Bruno Stöwsand and Walter Gong received a license from the US military government to re- publish the Nordsee-Zeitung . In 1949 Kurt Ditzen took over the management of the publishing house that had published the Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung until 1945 . The newspaper therefore still bears this name in the subtitle today. From September 1949 until the beginning of the 1970s , the Nordsee-Zeitung worked together with the civil Bremer Nachrichten . The Nordsee-Zeitung appears today with a sold circulation of over 60,000 copies (2010). (For more see the Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung from 1895)
  • The Bremerhavener Zeitung - organ for the entire Lower Weser region was published by the editor F. Dannemann and Albers as a free-thinking newspaper from 1874 to 1877.
  • The Bremen Foreign Gazette was published again from 1854 to 1860 from 1874 to 1875 by Verlag Adolph Schmidt and Heinrich Frese printed the sheet.
  • The Bremer Mondaysblatt from 1874/75 was published and printed by Johannes Ordemann.
  • The Volksblatt in Bremen was published from 1875 to 1878 as a free-spirited paper in publishing and printing by Adolf Feldmann.
  • The Osterholz-Scharmbecker-Wochenblatt was published by Heinrich Julius Erdmann Saade since 1875. In 1932 the paper formed a technical working group with the Blumenthaler Zeitung , which jointly published the Nordwestdeutsche Landeszeitung . In 1945 the paper appeared as Osterholzer Kreisblatt as a wall newspaper and in 1949 as a daily newspaper with 3500 copies. In 1971 the paper came to Osterholzer Zeitungsverlag with the partners Hackmack, Meyer KG (51%) and Heiner Saade (49%) and it was added as a local section to the Weser-Kurier and the Bremer Nachrichten .
  • The Free Press on the Unterweser was in Vegesack from 1876 to the beginning of the 20th century by the Strohmeyer publishing house. From 1898 to 1904 she published the Blumenthaler Tageblatt as a stipple .
  • The Bremer Freie Zeitung had been a social-democratically oriented newspaper from the Bremen cooperative printing company since 1876 , which was no longer allowed to appear from 1878 due to the Socialist Law .
  • The second Bremer Montagblatt from 1876 was published and printed by Wind & Farer.
  • The Bremer Journal was published from 1877 to 1880 as the successor to the Mondaysblatt, published by Emil Kobabe, printed by Wind & Farer.
  • The Monday Post , also called Die Post , appeared in 1878/79 like the above-mentioned Volksblatt by Adolf Feldmann.
  • The Bremische Volkszeitung was printed and published by Schefer & Cassen in 1878/79.
  • The second Bremer Tageblatt was only available as a liberal newspaper in 1879.
  • The Leher Nachrichten with the subsidiary editions Geestendorfer Anzeiger and Bederkesaer Wochenblatt was published by Schulze & Bissing in Lehe in 1882.
  • The Rundschau in Bremen appeared from 1882 to 1884 as a trend sheet of the German Progress Party in publishing and printing by Johannes Daniel Pröhl.
  • The Norddeutsche Volkszeitung from 1885 to 1941 was the continuation of the weekly magazine for Vegesack and the surrounding area from 1846. The Nordwestdeutsche Landeszeitung was included in this newspaper in 1939.
  • The latest news for Hemelingen and the surrounding area appeared in 1885/86.
  • The Unterweser newspaper came out in 1885/86.
  • The Bremer Volkszeitung from 1888 was published as a social democratic paper by Christian Meyer, printed by Wilhelm Fuse and edited by the trade unionist Julius Bruhns ( SPD ). It ceased its publication on March 10, 1933 under pressure from the Nazi regime .
  • The North German Volksstimme was from 1890 to 1933 and after 1948 a social democratic paper in Bremerhaven, Lehe and Geestemünde. The GmbH was partly taken over in 1901 and completely in 1918 by the SPD and in 1929 received the publishing house Norddeutsche Volksstimme .
  • The Bremer Bürger-Zeitung was the party newspaper of the SPD from 1890 to 1974 and for a time one of the leading social democratic newspapers in the German Reich . In 1890, Julius Bruhns (SPD), a member of the Reichstag from Bremen, was the first publisher and editor. From 1895 to 1907 the newspaper was taken over by Auer-Verlag in Hamburg and from 1907 to 1974 by the party's own publishing house Schmalfeldt  & Co. The editor-in-chief was Alfred Henke (SPD, USPD) from 1900 to 1919 . Well-known editors such as Johann Knief , Anton Pannekoek , Friedrich Ebert , Karl Radek and Hans Hackmack gave the newspaper a high standard. Alfred Faust and Wilhelm Kaisen were editors-in-chief in the Weimar Republic . It was banned from 1933 to 1945 and was reissued in 1950 with 150,000 copies at times. In 1975 it became the (second) Bremer Anzeiger .
  • The Independent from 1892/93 and then Deutsches Volksblatt from 1893/94 was published by L. H. Müller and AG Brinner and Th. Kliche printed as an anti-Semitic, German social paper.
  • The Hemelinger Bote first appeared as a free-spirited paper from 1892 to 1945. Editors were u. a. Meißner and Schwerdfeger & Trampf.
  • The Bremer Generalanzeiger came out from 1894 to 1899 with changing publishers and was taken over by the third Bremer Tageblatt .
  • Headline of the Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung from May 17, 1926
    The Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung in Bremerhaven was founded in 1895 by Josef Ditzen with other partners as a GmbH. From 1895 Ditzen was also editor-in-chief of the Nordsee-Zeitung . The newspaper was politically non-partisan and liberal. In 1913 the publishing house bought the Unterweser-Zeitung and was now called Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung, Zeitungsverlag und Druckerei GmbH . In 1913 the newspaper had a circulation of around 17,500 copies. In 1931 Kurt Ditzen took over the publishing house. The newspaper was oriented towards the bourgeois-conservative. The circulation amounted to approx. 21,500 copies. The last edition of the newspaper appeared on May 7, 1945. The     Nordsee-Zeitung still bears the name Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung from 1895 in the subtitle.
  • The Norddeutsche Zeitung  - liberal / conservative - came out like the Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung from 1895 to 1945 by the Ditzen-Verlag.
  • The third Bremer Tageblatt was published from 1896/97 to 1920. Publishing and printing was carried out by Heinrich Gronau until 1898, then by the Bremer Tageblatt until 1904 and by the Bremer Zeitungsgesellschaft until 1920. It took over the Bremer Generalanzeiger .
  • Headline of the Leher Tageblatt of Jan. 29, 1905
    The Leher Tageblatt was published from 1897 to 1905 and was the headline of the Nordsee-Zeitung and the Provinzial-Zeitung .
  • The Lesum-Burgdamer Zeitung was published in 1897.
  • The Blumenthaler Kreiszeitung from 1898 to 1900 published and printed E. Seubert.
  • The Blumenthaler Tageblatt was published from 1898 to 1904 as a side edition of the Free Press on the Lower Weser .

20th century to 1945

At the beginning of the 20th century, newspapers existed

  • in Bremen five newspapers with a total of around 85,000 copies (1903) and 200,000 inhabitants (1903):
    • the Bremer Courier until 1906 (daily with around 12 issues per week) as a medium-sized newspaper
    • the Bremer Nachrichten (daily) as a liberal local paper, circulation 1914: around 50,000 copies
    • the liberal Bremer Tageblatt with the Bremer Generalanzeiger (6 times a week), non-party, with around 12 issues per week, with many advertisements and a low price, existed until 1920.
    • the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung (6 times a week) as a party sheet of the SPD workers' party with 8,000 copies (1903) and 24,000 copies (1914)
    • the Weser-Zeitung (daily with around 18 issues per week) until 1918 as a liberal, then until 1942 as a right-wing conservative Wirtschafts- und Handelsblatt
  • in Bremerhaven, Lehe and Geestemünde five newspapers for 60,000 residents
    • the Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung ,
    • the Norddeutsche Zeitung ,
    • the Nordsee-Zeitung ,
    • the North German Volksstimme ,
    • the Provinzial-Zeitung in Lehe,
  • in Bremen-Nord with around 23,000 inhabitants
    • the Vegesacker Free Press on the Unterweser with the
    • Blumenthaler Tageblatt ,
  • in Hemelingen with around 15,000 inhabitants
    • the Hemelinger messenger .

The daily newspapers were politically and sociologically differentiated and had a large circulation of all sections of the population.

New newspapers were added:

  • The Unterweser-Zeitung was published from 1905 to 1913 by the Leher Citizens' Association. It was sold to a Hamburg publisher in 1908 ; after its bankruptcy, the naming rights were transferred to the Norddeutsche Zeitung .
  • The Blumenthaler Zeitung from 1913 to 1940 was published and printed by Rudolf Steinbeck as a national-liberal paper. It was sold several times from 1917 onwards. From 1930, the Blumenthal printing company Schnibbe & Pörtner owned the newspaper. The Lesum-Burgdammer Nachrichten (which existed as early as 1897), the Grohn-Aumunder Anzeiger and, from 1932, the Stedinger Landzeitung appeared as side editions from 1930/31 to 1933 . From 1933 the paper was called Nordwestdeutsche Landeszeitung . The Osterholz-Scharmbecker Zeitung was also associated with this paper from 1933 to 1940, which in 1940 was incorporated into the Norddeutsche Volkszeitung from 1885.
  • The northern German state newspaper appeared as the Blumenthaler newspaper from 1913 to 1940 and was also since 1930 to Schnibbe & Pörtner and went also in 1933 in the northern German People's Daily on.
  • The weekly Arbeiterpolitik was published by Johann Knief from 1916 to 1919 with up to 3000 copies .
  • The communist from 1918 to 1920, in changing publishing and printing, was the party newspaper of the KPD . It was editorially managed by Knief in 1919 and banned in 1920. Then from 1920 to 1921 a Bremen supplement appeared in the newspaper Die Rote Fahne from the KPD section of the III. International , Bez. Northwest.
  • In 1917/18 the then liberal Weser-Zeitung changed the publishing house from Schünemann to the new Bremer Zeitungsverlag with 170 shareholders and was now right-conservative under Gerhard Heile.
  • The Bremer Volksblatt from 1919 to 1922 was the newspaper of the Bremen Majority Socialists (MSPD). With changing publishers and printers she was finally in the publishing house J. H.Smalfeldt & Co. von Hinrich Schmalfeldt . The paper was included in the Bremer Volkszeitung in 1922 .
  • The Bremer Arbeiter-Zeitung from 1918 to 1922 was the newspaper of the Bremen Independent Social Democrats (USPD). The editor-in-chief was Alfred Henke (SPD, USPD) in 1918 and Alfred Faust (USPD, SPD ) since March 1919 . In 1922 it and the Bremer Volksblatt became the Bremer Volkszeitung .
    • The Arbeiter-Zeitung for the Lower Weser region was a subsidiary edition of the Bremer Arbeiter-Zeitung from 1919 to 1922
  • The Red Flag , organ of the KPD section, received a Bremen supplement in 1920/21, which was printed in Bremen from mid-1921. Since November 1, 1921, the regional KPD newspaper was called Nordwestdeutsches Echo .
  • The third Bremer Zeitung with a nationalistic tendency (for DVP , then DNVP ) appeared from 1921 to 1929, was called Norddeutsche Rundschau from 1923 to 1924 , Nationale Rundschau until 1926 and again Bremer Zeitung until 1929 .
  • The Northwest German Echo came out as a communist, aggressive party sheet of the KPD from 1921 to 1924 by the publishing association Nordwest . The paper was banned in October and November 1923.
    • It was called the Arbeiter-Zeitung from 1924 to 1933 and was still printed in Bremen.
  • The Bremer Volkszeitung from 1922 to 1933 was a newspaper of the SPD with the editors-in-chief Wilhelm Kaisen (1922–1925) and Alfred Faust (1925–1933).
  • The Lower Saxony Herold from 1923 to 1928 was a National Socialist paper.
  • The Völkische Ratgeber was published in 1924/25 as a national-völkisches paper by Schröder & Meiners and was printed by Schierenbeck.
  • The Free Hanseatic League was the newspaper of the German-Republican Reich Federation in 1924 and was printed by Schmalfeldt.
  • The blockade breaker was published by Adolf Ernst Schulte from 1924 to 1931.
  • The so-called workers' correspondence of the Communists (KPD) circulated in the 1920s without any employee or publisher information.
  • The Hemelinger Anzeiger from 1924 to 1941 by the publisher WV Pille (1936 Wilhelm Kleeberg) had the side edition Syker Latest News and from 1932 was an indicator for the Achim district , from 1933 the Verden-Achim district and an indicator for the south-east of Bremen.
  • In the mid-1920s, the five Bremen newspapers had a circulation of 110 to 120 thousand copies, including the Bremer Nachrichten with 70,000 copies. Around 300,000 people lived in Bremen.
  • The Ansgarius was a Catholic Sunday newspaper from 1924 to 1936. Ed .: Dean Friedrich Hardinghaus. After that, the church messenger of the diocese of Osnabrück took the place of the church until 1941 .
  • The Senate's Press Commission (today press office) was set up around 1925.
  • The Wesermünder Latest News originated from the Provinzial-Zeitung in 1926 and was published by 1941. The once bourgeois newspaper became National Socialist.
  • The Hemelinger Tageblatt from 1927 to 1930 was a side edition of the Syker newspaper.
  • The Lower Saxony striker from 1928 to 1931 was the weekly newspaper of the NSDAP .
  • The Bremer Kirchenzeitung was published from 1928 to 1941 as the successor to the Bremer Kirchenblatt by the Bremen Evangelical Church.
  • The Bremen church monthly books were published from 1929 to 1931 by the Bremen Evangelical Church.
  • The Weser-Warte (1929), then the Weser-Ems-Warte (1929/30) was a National Socialist paper.
  • The Grohn-Aumunder Anzeiger was published from 1930 to 1933 as a side edition of the Blumenthaler Zeitung (see above 1913). In May 1933 it was given the subtitle Daily newspaper for national and social folklore .
  • The National Socialist New messages from 1930-31 printed Heinrich Engelke.
  • The Bremer Nationalsozialistische Zeitung ( NSDAP ) appeared from 1931 to 1933 (circulation 3000) and was then the fourth Bremer Zeitung . Editors was u. a. Kurt Thiele (1931/32) (NSDAP).
  • The Bremer Anzeiger was produced in 1931 by the Weser printing company Dietrich Putscher .
  • The Lesum-Burgdammer Nachrichten was a subsidiary edition of the Blumenthaler Zeitung in 1931/32 (see above 1913).

1933 to 1945

  • The " conformity " of the press by the National Socialists under Richard Hochmuth (NSDAP), head of the press office, took place from April 1933.
  • The Bremer Zeitung of the NSDAP was published by the NS-Gauverlag Weser-Ems until 1945 (circulation 1937: 37,000). In 1933 it also became the official gazette of the Senate (subtitle of the newspaper), while the Bremer Nachrichten was withdrawn from this task. Editor was u. a. Hanskarl Sichart von Sichartshoff (NSDAP).
  • The SPD's Bremer Volkszeitung had to cease its publication on March 30, 1933. The publishing house Am Geeren 6/8 was confiscated in May 1933 and the Nazi newspaper took over the house.
  • The Nordwestdeutsche Landeszeitung was a subsidiary edition of the Blumenthaler Zeitung from 1933 to 1940 (see above 1913).
  • The Weser-Zeitung (1933: circulation 80,000) ceased to appear in 1934 and the Bremer Nachrichten appeared under the title Bremer Nachrichten with Weser-Zeitung .
  • In Bremen-Stadt there were only two newspapers from 1934, 1935 with 87,000 copies for 330,000 residents, 1938 with over 100,000 copies for 350,000 residents and 1943/44 with around 150,000 copies for around 440,000 residents.
  • In 1936, the Schünemann Verlag der Bremer Nachrichten had to accept a 51% stake in the NS Vera publishing house . From 1936 the circulation was around 60 to 65,000 copies and rose to 78,000 by 1939 and to around 90,000 in 1943/44. In 1936 Erich Beck (NSDAP) became the main editor.
  • Carl and Walther Schünemann were expelled from the Reich Press Chamber in 1936 .
  • The advertisement for the south-east of Bremen was published from 1939 to 1941, from 1936 as Hemelinger Anzeiger (see above 1924) by Verlag Wilhelm Kleeberg in Hemelingen .
  • The Bremer Nachrichten had to stop its publication from September 1944, as it was called due to the war. Instead of five newspapers (1932), the only newspaper left was the Nazi organ Bremer Zeitung . Your last edition printed in Osterholz-Scharmbeck appeared on April 28, 1945. Bremen had been liberated the day before.

The time after 1945

After the Second World War there was a process of concentration among the newspapers, so that in the state of Bremen and its immediate vicinity there are in fact only the two large newspapers Weser-Kurier and Nordsee-Zeitung as well as the two large advertising papers Bremer Anzeiger and Weser Report . Published since 1945:

  • The Weser-Bote - Allied Nachrichtenblatt was only published as a weekly newspaper in 1945, from June 23 to September 15, by the American occupying forces in the American zone of occupation . It was centrally edited with 12 (according to other sources 16) other newspapers of the 12th American Army Group by Hans Habe in Bad Nauheim .
Weser-Kurier: Distribution area today
  • The Weser-Kurier appeared after the Second World War on September 19, 1945 as the first licensed newspaper in Bremen, first in 1946 in the Weser-Kurier GmbH , which today as Bremen daily papers AG operates. Hans Hackmack, who was editor of the Bremer Bürger-Zeitung before the Nazi era (see above 1890), was the first in Bremen to receive a newspaper license in 1945. In 1947 the businessman Eberhard Peters (until 1948) and Felix von Eckardt, who was close to the CDU (editor-in-chief until 1952), received a license. Well-known editors were u. a. the writers Manfred Hausmann , Jürgen Tern (former editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), Hans Walter Berg , long-time ARD Asia correspondent from 1952 , the editors-in-chief Karl Bachler , Heinz Nolte, Werner Schmidt, Jürgen Bettmann and Volker Weise . The Weser-Kurier appeared twice a week until July 1947 and three times a week until September 1949. In 1952 the businessman Hermann Rudolf Meyer took over shares in the publishing house and in 1956 became joint owner. The newspaper was printed by Schünemann-Verlag since 1949 and by Weser-Kurier GmbH from 1957 , and from 1970 in Woltmershausen . The high-circulation newspaper distributes around 170,000 copies (2010) daily.
    • Der Kurier am Sonntag is the Sunday newspaper of Weser-Kurier , Bremer Nachrichten and Verdener Nachrichten .
    • As the regional supplements of the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG, an extra supplement was first published in Bremen Nord. It was followed by the Nord-Kurier from 1971 to 1979, then from 1979 by Die Norddeutsche . The Südkreis-Kurier has been published since 1971. Today, the editions of the Weserkurier are expanded to include the district courier as a district-specific supplement on Mondays and Thursdays .
    • The Achimer Kurier in Achim , the Delmenhorster Kurier in Delmenhorst , Die Norddeutsche (newspaper for Bremen-Vegesack and the surrounding area) in Vegesack , the Regionale Rundschau in Stuhr- Brinkum, are published by the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG as a supplement as regional editions or local supplements Wümme-Zeitung in Lilienthal , the Osterholzer Kreisblatt in Osterholz-Scharmbeck and the Syker Kurier in Syke as well as the Verdener Nachrichten with its own newspaper header.
  • The Nordsee-Zeitung came out again under license in autumn 1947, initially until 1949 also with a city-Bremen newspaper, which ceased its publication after the start of the Bremer Nachrichten . In Bremerhaven the newspaper existed in name since 1866 and as the successor to the Nordwestdeutsche Zeitung since 1895 (see 1866 and 1895). The publisher Kurt Ditzen, a member of the NSDAP from 1937 to 1945, did not initially receive a newspaper license , but instead Bruno Stöwsand and Walter Gong. In 1949 Ditzen took over the publishing house again and Stöwsand remained editor-in-chief until 1957 and was then publisher's manager until 1975. From 1967 to 1982 the editor-in-chief Rudolf Dahmen coined the now liberal-bourgeois newspaper. Long-term technical and editorial cooperation agreements were concluded with newspaper publishers in Nordenham , Bremervörde , Zeven , Otterndorf and Cuxhaven as well as with the Stader newspaper publisher.
    • The Sunday Journal appears in the Nordsee-Zeitung .
  • The Bremer Nachrichten did not receive a newspaper license until 1949, since the publisher Walther Schünemann had been a member of the NSDAP since 1937 during the National Socialist era. At that time it was a bourgeois-liberal daily newspaper and was independent until 1974 and then a partially autonomous newspaper of the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG . There was an increasing alignment: in the 1970 / 80s for the pages economy, culture, miscellaneous and Lower Saxony, since 1987 for the local section and since 2008/10 also in the political area. It differs from the Weser-Kurier today only in the head of the newspaper.
  • The Tribune of Democracy had been the KPD's membership journal since 1947 , was banned several times and was called Weser-Post for a short time in 1956 .
  • The second Norddeutsche Volkszeitung was published again in 1949; before that from 1885 to 1941.
  • The Bremer Presse appeared in 1949/50 as the headline of the Hannoversche Presse (today Neue Presse ) and was owned by the SPD.
  • In 1950 the Weser-Kurier had a circulation of 82,000, the Bremer Nachrichten 47,000 and the Bremer Presse 10,000; together so 139 copies. 444,549 inhabitants lived in the city of Bremen.
  • The Bremer Volkszeitung was published as a social democratic weekly from 1950 to 1955 by Kurt Wurbs and was printed by the Bremer Presse and from 1951 by Schmalfeldt.
  • The Ostbremer Rundschau was published by Schmalfeldt in 1955.
  • The Bremer Bürger-Zeitung from 1890 (see there) appeared as a weekly newspaper again from 1955 to 1975 as an organ of the SPD Bremen with editors-in-chief Moritz Thape (SPD) (1955–1964), Harry Tallert (SPD) and Reinhard Uhde (SPD) (1965-1974). In 1974/75 there were also local newspapers. This paper became the Bremer Anzeiger .
  • The indicator for the Bremen city area links der Weser or Bremer Anzeiger links der Weser came out in 1960 and was published by Schmalfeldt.
  • The Weser Report of the KPS Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (printing: including Nordwestzeitung Oldenburg and Druckzentrum Braunschweig GmbH ) was initially a newspaper of the Bremen CDU from 1971, but it sold its publishing shares in the 1980s. It was transformed into a free, twice-weekly advertising paper with six local editions in Bremen. The sister titles were the Elbe Report (Magdeburg), Aller Report (Verden district), Delme Report (City of Delmenhorst), Hunte Report (City of Oldenburg), Hamme Report (Osterholz district) and Wümme Report (Rotenburg district) and the subsidiary edition Nord Report . It has a print run of around 345,000 copies. It cooperates with the partner publishers Wesermarsch am Sonntag , Rotenburger Rundschau Hunte -Report and Die Wochenpost .
  • The Bremer Anzeiger (formerly Bremer Bürger-Zeitung from 1890) has been a free advertising paper of the Bremer Anzeiger GmbH since 1975 and cooperates with its partner publishers the Kreisblatt am Sonntag in and around Delmenhorst , the Osterholzer Anzeiger in the district of Osterholz and Bremervörde and the Aller-Weser Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH • Weekly tip / Sunday tip . The newspaper is produced by the printing company of Bremer Tageszeitungen AG with a Wednesday circulation of around 180,000 and a Sunday circulation of around 225,000 copies with the secondary leaves Bremen-Mitte , Bremen-Ost , Bremen-West , Bremen-Nord , Links der Weser , Huchting / Stuhr .
  • As a new advertising newspaper, the Kurier des Woche has been appearing on Sundays since 2013 in Bremen, in the Osterholz district and in the communities bordering Bremen. The courier of the week is published by Bremer Tageszeitungen AG and is only distributed to non-subscribers. Courier on Sunday and Courier of the Week together form the combination of advertisements and inserts with the highest circulation in Bremen.
  • The independent Bremen edition of the daily newspaper ( taz ) was discontinued for financial reasons and integrated into the taz nord ; In addition to the jacket newspaper, this includes three pages of the general regional section and one alternating page for the states of Bremen and Hamburg.

Current

The press house , u. a. Headquarters of Bremer Nachrichten and Weser-Kurier
North Sea Newspaper Bremerhaven

Daily newspapers

The Weser-Kurier and the almost identical Bremer Nachrichten appear as daily newspapers . On Mondays and Thursdays, the Weser-Kurier and the Bremer Nachrichten each include the district courier (six issues: Northeast, Southeast, Middle, Links der Weser, West and Huchting). The Sunday editions appear in two versions for subscribers and as a free edition for non-subscribers.

In Bremen-Nord the regional edition Die Norddeutsche appears from Monday to Saturday , which has been published as an independent daily newspaper since 1885 under the name Norddeutsche Volkszeitung .

The Nordsee-Zeitung appears in Bremerhaven . There are technical and editorial cooperation agreements with newspaper publishers in Nordenham, Bremervörde, Zeven, Otterndorf and Cuxhaven as well as with Stader Zeitungsverlag. The Sunday Journal appears in the Nordsee-Zeitung.

Bild is also published with a separate edition for the greater Bremen area .

Weekly papers

Three weekly papers appear in Bremen:

  • the Bremer Anzeiger (BA) was published as an advertising paper until the end of 2014,
  • the courier of the week (KdW) now only on Sunday,
  • the Weser Report as well
  • The FSVO in Bremen-Nord .

City magazines

With Bremer , Bremen-Magazin , the city magazine Mix and the Nordanschlag in Bremen-Nord, a number of independent city magazines are also published. There are also the cultural and social magazines Foyer and Brillant - Das Magazin from Bremen as well as numerous smaller publications with a strong local character in individual parts of the city. The magazine of the street is a street magazine with a strong local reference, which is produced as part of a social community project

Agencies All of the major news agencies and most of the major daily newspapers in north-west Germany have correspondent offices in Bremen.

Notable editors and chief editors

Literature and locations

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digiPress newspaper list
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