De Courant / Het Nieuws van de Dag
De Courant / Het Nieuws van de Dag (until 1945 De Courant / Het Nieuws van den Dag , German Der Anzeiger / Die Nachrichten vom Tage) was a national Dutch daily newspaper that existed until 1982 and had its editorial office in Amsterdam , but was discontinued in 1998. She was one during most of its existence head newspaper of De Telegraaf .
history
On January 9, 1893, the first edition of the newspaper appeared as a popular edition by De Amsterdammer under the name De Courant , founder was Henri Tindal. In 1896 it became the head newspaper of Telegraaf , which had first appeared at almost the same time (January 1, 1893) as De Courant . In 1902, shortly after Tindal's death, both newspapers were taken over by Hak Holdert for 40,000 guilders . Under him, De Courant experienced a meteoric rise to become the first mass newspaper in the Netherlands, which left all other newspapers, including the Telegraaf , far behind.
In 1905 Holdert took over the newspapers Het Amsterdamsch Nieuwsblad (first edition in 1897) and Het Ochtendblad (first edition in 1898). They were discontinued immediately, from then on the 15,000 subscribers got De Courant instead . In 1912, De Echo was taken over and merged with De Courant . This newspaper previously belonged to the Algemeen Handelsblad and had been involved in a price war with De Courant the previous year . After the takeover of the newspaper Het Nieuws van den Dag , founded in 1870, in 1923 , De Courant received the new compound title De Courant / Het Nieuws van den Dag . In the previous year it was the first daily newspaper in the Netherlands to have its circulation confirmed by an auditing office for the first time.
After the surrender of the Netherlands in World War II , consideration was briefly given to discontinuing Telegraaf and De Courant / Het Nieuws van den Dag , but since other newspapers continued to appear, this consideration was discarded. The collaboration with the German occupiers during World War II - this included, among other things, the fact that the Holdert Group printed the Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands and the anti-Semitic De Misthoorn during this time - cost the publisher dearly. De Telegraaf was banned from appearing for 30 years and De Courant / Het Nieuws van den Dag for 20 years, but this was lifted in January 1949. Hakkie Holdert, who had been publisher of the group since 1944 and a member of the Waffen SS after the death of his father , was sentenced to twelve years in prison and his property was also confiscated.
Since September 12, 1949, the newspaper appeared again with a slightly changed name, the obsolete den had been replaced by de . In 1951, a group of five financiers, including Hak Holdert's grandson ME Borrius Broek, acquired from the state and the three Hakkie Holderts sisters, who had inherited the remaining 3/4 of the publishing house from their father, for 480,000 guilders all shares in the former Holdert group and thus saved its newspapers from being discontinued.
In the post-war period, the circulation between De Telegraaf and De Courant / Het Nieuws van de Dag gradually reversed . The latter was converted into a local Amsterdam newspaper in 1982, which in 1985 received a lunchtime edition in addition to the morning edition. On February 14, 1998 De Courant / Het Nieuws van de Dag was discontinued, the last edition still had a circulation of 40,000 copies.
Edition development
| year | Edition | year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 10,755 | 1940 | 325,750 |
| 1906/1907 | 59,501 | 1943 | 374.077 |
| 1910/1911 | 110,000 | 1944 | 383.313 |
| 1912/1913 | 153,859 | 1950 | 25,000 |
| 1914/1915 | 179,642 | 1955 | 66.264 |
| 1917/1918 | 182,650 | 1960 | 89,526 |
| 1924/1925 | 212.305 | 1966 | 131,444 |
| 1929/1930 | 259,890 | 1968 | 141,900 |
| 1937 | 250,000 | 1970 | 166.240 |
| 1939 | 336.443 | 1975 | 174,300 |
| 1980 | 151,640 |
Note: No information is available for 1965
See also
literature
- Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers / seed gesteld by Jan van de Plasse. Red. Wim Verbei , Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005, ISBN 90-75727-77-1 . (Dutch; earlier edition: Jan van de Plasse, Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagbladpers , Cramwinckel, Amsterdam 1999, ISBN 90-75727-25-9 )
Web links
- De Courant / Het Nieuws van de Dag or De Courant / Het Nieuws van den Dag in the catalog of the Royal Library of the Netherlands
Individual evidence
- ↑ On Hakkie Holdert and the role of the Holdert Group in World War II, see also Huub Wijfjes: Journalistiek in Nederland 1850–2000. Beroep, cultuur en organisatie . Boom, Amsterdam 2004 (pp. 246–247)