The Danzig outpost

The Danzig Outpost was a newspaper of the NSDAP in Danzig , which appeared as the official organ of the National Socialists, first as a weekly paper and after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933 as a daily newspaper . The newspaper was first published in November 1930 as Danzig Observer , then as Der Vorposten .

The newspaper was founded as a publisher in the legal form of a limited liability company (GmbH) in 1931. It first appeared weekly, then from June 1, 1933 in a daily edition. The circulation was between 25,000 and 30,000 copies in the mid-1930s. From July 15, 1936, the publisher also published the daily Danziger Morgenzeitung with a circulation of around 5,000 copies. This newspaper was run by the same editor as Der Danzig Vorposten .

Until 1944, the newspaper mainly published statements by the NSDAP and Reich Governor Albert Forster , who also worked as the editor of the newspaper, and his subordinate authorities for the Gau Danzig-West Prussia . The publishing house was based in Gdansk in the Kettenhager Gasse 11-12 (also: Elisabethkirchengasse). On February 15, 1936, an anniversary edition was published on the occasion of the newspaper's fifth anniversary.

In 1937 the newspaper had 16 pages. Supplements were Between North and East and an entertainment edition.

Organization of the newspaper (1937)

Danzig and general politics and chief editor: Wilhelm Zarske
Nazi movement: Bruno Friedrich
Local news: Georg Hartwig
Cultural politics and entertainment: Hanns Strohmenger
Sport: Karl Baedeker
Trade and Economy: Edgar Sommer
News service: Berthold Wiegand
Eastern Issues and the Baltic States: Arthur Reiss
Music review: Erich Lindow
Representative in Berlin: Hans Joachim von Reischach
Representative in Paris: Kurt Ihlefeld
Representative in Riga: Heinrich Bosse
Representative in Stockholm: Hans-Georg Wagener
Representative in Warsaw: Hans Mosberg

literature

Karl Bömer (Ed.), Handbuch der Weltpresse , Leipzig 1937
Institute for Newspaper Studies (University of Berlin), Handbook of the German Daily Press , Leipzig 1937

Hints

↑ Maximilian Scheer reports on his earlier time in Paris: Ihlefeld was the "cell leader" of the NSDAP and Paris correspondent for The Attack in Berlin; he also has spy reports, e.g. B. via Ambassador Köster, sent from Paris to Berlin; he became press chief of the Hanover trade fair after 1945; in: "So it was in Paris", 1972, p. 102f.

[1] Maximilian Scheer reports on his earlier time in Paris: Ihlefeld was the "cell leader" of the NSDAP and Paris correspondent for The Attack in Berlin; he also has spy reports, e.g. B. via Ambassador Köster, sent from Paris to Berlin; he became press chief of the Hanover trade fair after 1945; in: "So it was in Paris", 1972, p. 102f.