Gdansk People's Voice

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People's Watch

Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 40,000 copies
(Marek Andrzejewski)
Editor-in-chief Ernst Loops , Fritz Weber
editor Julius Gehl

The Danzig Volksstimme was a social democratic newspaper that was published in Danzig from 1920 to 1936 .

The daily newspaper was an organ of the Danzig SPD . It was founded on January 3, 1920 as a continuation of the People's Watch (1910-1919). The name change was due to the efforts to unify the Social Democrats in the Free City of Danzig .

The editor was Julius Gehl , assisted by the editors-in-chief Ernst Loops and, in the 1930s, Fritz Weber . The editorial and printing works were in the school of the former donation and orphanage . The journalists and employees included: Erich Brost (after 1947 WAZ ), Willibald Omankowski and Richard Teclaw . According to the Danzig Latest News (DNN), the Volksstimme was the newspaper with the highest circulation in the free city of Danzig. - Their unit price in January 1933 was 15 Pfennig or 30 Groszy.

After the DNN 1933 gleichgeschaltet were the importance of the Gdansk popular vote took as the main newspaper of the opposition and its circulation reached 40,000 copies in 1935. The newspaper had to be suspended several times. Its publication has been hampered by administrative harassment, material confiscation and pressure against its journalists.

The Danzig Volksstimme appeared for the last time in June 1936.

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literature

  • Marek Andrzejewski: Prasa gdańska na przestrzeni wieków . Marpress 1999. ISBN 978-83-87291-56-3 .
  • Marek Andrzejewski: The social democratic party in the free city of Danzig. 1920-1936 . GTN, 1980. ISBN 978-83-04-00706-2 .

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