De Maasbode
De Maasbode ( German Der Maasbote ) was a supraregional Dutch daily newspaper with an editorial office in Rotterdam .
history
The Maasbode was founded in 1868 as a Catholic weekly newspaper directed against the supremacy of the Liberals and Reformed in the Netherlands. A lot had happened so far with regard to the equality of Catholics in the country, but it would still take decades before the final emancipation of the Dutch Catholics was achieved.
The first issue appeared on October 1st. Since July 1, 1869, Maasbode has been published three times a week and finally switched to a daily publication on April 1, 1885. Since December 22, 1908, both a morning and an evening edition appeared.
Strictly Catholic in its orientation, the Maasbode was nevertheless able to develop a very good reputation and became one of the largest newspapers in the Netherlands before the Second World War . In 1931 there was almost a takeover of the Amsterdam competitor De Tijd , but when this was already done, it was called off again due to the commitment of 350 Catholic notables for an independent Tijd .
During the bombing of Rotterdam by the Germans on May 14, 1940, the publishing house and with it the archive were destroyed. After the emergency edition published seven days earlier at the outbreak of war, the edition published on May 21 was again the first edition of the Maasbode after the property was destroyed . However, on February 4, 1941, the newspaper was banned by the Germans. The reason was not the attitude of the Maasbode , who adhered to the occupation's rules, but that of the bishops. In particular, a pastoral letter published on January 13th of that year, which instructed the Dutch National Socialists NSB to refuse the sacraments , had angered the German occupying power.
After the war, the newspaper was able to appear again and tried to connect with its past. However, the Netherlands had changed significantly in the meantime. The emancipation of the Catholics was achieved, whereby the reason for the existence of the newspaper disappeared. The newspaper had a new, strong competition in the form of the revived Volkskrant , which passed the Maasbode with a multiple value of its pre-war edition. The demolition of the Netherlands also cast its shadows, which meant that the social system of separate ideological groups was nearing its end. Those Catholic newspapers that did not adapt to the new times disappeared from the market, and so it was ultimately to be the Maasbode .
In 1959 the situation was reversed from 1931: De Tijd took over the Maasbode and from then on was called De Tijd-De Maasbode . For part of the editorial team at Maasbode this meant dismissal, while another part continued to work at De Tijd in Amsterdam or Rotterdam. Even after De Tijd re-adopted the old name for the national edition at the end of 1965, the Rotterdam edition retained the old title. In 1972, however, the Rotterdam editorial office was closed and the last remnants of the Maasbode were erased over the next two years . De Tijd itself was converted into a weekly newspaper in 1974 and merged with HP Magazine in 1991 to form the weekly political magazine HP / De Tijd .
See also
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- 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 )
- Hans Vermeulen: De Maasbode , Waanders, Zwolle 1994, ISBN 90-6630-499-5 (Dutch)