The Danube Messenger (Ingolstadt)

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The Donaubote was a National Socialist daily newspaper published in Ingolstadt .

The Ingolstadt doctor and Nazi functionary Ludwig Liebl founded the Danube messenger in 1927 as a combat paper and the first regional daily newspaper of the NSDAP . Before the official start on June 1, 1927, two advertising issues appeared. Editor was initially Major a. D. Hermann Schmidt, who gave up in November 1927 because of intrigues within the party, then Bodo Uhse , who, as a supporter of the Strasser wing, was considered too moderate, was dismissed in June 1928. His successor was Paul Emil Rings, who had already had several criminal records and who was then able to fulfill the desire for a harder style.

In the style of the Volkischer Beobachter and the Stürmers , the paper ran increased personal agitation against Ingolstadt Jews , Social Democrats , Communists and Catholic clergy. Ring was replaced in March 1929, followed by the Reichstag members Gottfried Feder , Wilhelm Dreher (from July 1929) and Fritz Reinhardt (October 1930 to March 1931). The three of them mainly exercised nominal duties in order to protect the paper from criminal prosecution with their parliamentary immunity for its agitational style. The editor de facto was the Ingolstadt NSDAP local group leader Bergler.

With Josef Schweigler, nominal and actual editorial management were reunited in 1931. Due to the Republic Protection Act , the Danube messenger was banned four times for several days in 1931/1932 because of its agitation. In 1932 he became a party official paper. After the takeover of the Nazi Party was under the direct circuit , the majority of privately-owned NS-regional papers incorporated into party publishers, Liebl could do this in Danube messengers prevent revenue to the publisher by the participation of the party.

In 1935 the Danube messenger published calls for boycotts against Jewish businesses and published the names of their customers. In the same year took over Donaubote the subscriber base and the publishing spaces of the conservative Catholic Ingolstadt newspaper that after the Second World War as Donaukurier of Wilhelm Reismüller continued. In 1937 he became the publishing director of the Danube messenger and in October of the same year he married her daughter Elin . Both became full shareholders of the company Druck und Verlag Donaubote San. Rat. Dr. Ludwig Liebl and A. Ganghofersche Buchhandlung, a general partnership . The last edition of the Danube messenger appeared on 20./21. April 1945.

literature

  • Theodor Straub : Memorial sites on the history of the Nazi era in Ingolstadt 1918–1945. Another city guide. Panther-Verlag, Ingolstadt 1994.
  • Christoph Neuberger , Jan Tonnemacher : National Socialist Press and "Gleichschaltung" of the daily newspapers in Ingolstadt. In: City Archives / Scientific City Library / City Museum Ingolstadt (Ed.): Ingolstadt in National Socialism. A study. Stadtarchiv et al., Ingolstadt 1995, pp. 260–273 ( Documentation on contemporary history 1), online document (PDF; 286 kB) .