Chernivtsi General Newspaper

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The Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung (CAZ) was one of the leading German-language daily newspapers in Czernowitz .

The newspaper was founded in 1903 and published by the Graphische Kunstanstalt Eminescu GmbH in Czernowitz, Herrengasse 11. Like the Czernowitzer Tagblatt , the Czernowitzer Deutsche Tagespost and the Czernowitzer Morgenblatt, it was one of the newspapers that found its readers in the German-speaking population of Czernowitz and the surrounding area.

The CAZ primarily had business circles in the city as a readership. In the subtitle it had the name Independent Tageblatt to show that it was not politically bound. But also in Bucharest the newspaper found its readers as a special edition under the title Allgemeine Zeitung . The newspaper appeared six days a week, initially as an evening edition and from 1912 as a morning edition.

In 1937 the newspaper in Chernivtsi had a circulation of 3500 copies. The director of the publisher was Felix picker. Adolf Niederhoffer was editor-in-chief , his deputy was Fritz Albrecht. The newspaper also had its own editorial office in Bucharest. The Jewish editors were Philipp Menczel (1872–1941), Mendel Abraham and Arnold Schwarz.

As a side edition of the newspaper, an evening edition also appeared from 1930 to 1937, called the Extrablatt . Up to 1912 there was one, then two daily editions of the CAZ (lunchtime and evening editions) until December 7, 1913. During the First World War, journalistic activity was only possible to a limited extent, during the first two Russian occupations in 1914/15. After the third Russian invasion, the CAZ appeared together with the Czernowitzer Tagblatt for a short time as the Bukovina war newspaper. Between 1918 and 1940 the newspaper reappeared in its usual format.

In 2002, a working group of the Chernivtsi press was formed in Vienna. This decided, among other things, the digitization of some years of the CAZ, which should then be accessible on the Internet.

literature

  • Karl Bömer : Handbook of the world press. Leipzig 1937.
  • Markus Winkler: Press landscape in Bukowina and the neighboring regions. Munich 2011.

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