The Bavarian Fatherland

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The Bavarian Fatherland was a Bavarian Catholic daily newspaper. It was founded in Munich in 1869 by Johann Baptist Sigl and was published until 1934.

The Bavarian Fatherland was a popular daily newspaper in large parts of the Bavarian population, but lost its importance soon after the founder's death.

At times it was the official organ of the Bavarian Farmers' Union . It fought against Adolf Hitler and was banned by the National Socialists in 1934.

Johann Baptist Sigl , a Bavarian journalist, edited this daily newspaper for 32 years, in which he fought against Reich Chancellor Bismarck , German Reich politics and Prussia with great quick wit and humor .

Together with the Bavarian Patriot Party, Sigl warned against Prussian militarism and a black-white-red empire in the Bavarian fatherland . In view of the high losses during the war with France in 1870, Sigl only called the new German imperial crown the enlarged Prussian Pickelhaube . When the Reich was founded in 1870, Sigl wrote in the 'Bavarian Fatherland': "More wars, more cripples, more death lists and more tax slips ...".

Edition development

year Circulation per issue
1869 400-5,400
from 1870

In 1870 105 issues were confiscated, ie 1/3 of the annual issues

4,000
from 1871 4,000-6,000
from 1873 8,000
from 1876 2,000
from 1890

Individual, sensational editions reached print runs of up to 18,000 items.

8,000

Source: Paul Hoser, The Bavarian Fatherland

See also

Neustadt newspaper war

literature

  • Johann Baptist Sigl: A Life for the Bavarian Fatherland . Rosenheim 1977, ISBN 3475522012
  • Benno Hubensteiner : Bavarian History (1981 edition) ISBN 3-475-53756-7
  • Hans Zitzelsberger: The press of Bavarian particularism from 1848-1950 . Diss.phil., Munich, Birkeneck Castle 1937.
  • Paul Hoser, The political, economic and social background of the Munich daily press. Methods of influencing the press (Europäische Hochschulschriften III 447). 2 volumes, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  • Anton Hochberger, Der Bayerischer Bauernbund 1893–1914 (series of publications on Bavarian national history 99), Munich 1991.

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  1. ^ Hubensteiner: Bayerische Geschichte , Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, 17th edition 2009, p. 431
  2. ↑ Paul Hoser: The Bavarian Fatherland . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . Bavarian State Library. July 3, 2006. Retrieved February 14, 2019.

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