The Führer (newspaper)

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Der Führer , edition March 15, 1933

The newspaper The leader belonged 1927 to 1945-NS press for the NSDAP in Gau Baden . On the main page, the newspaper was referred to in the first subline as the main organ of the NSDAP Gau Baden . At the same time, the newspaper identified itself on the front page as the Badischer Staatsanzeiger , which means that the newspaper also became the official publisher of the state and judicial authorities for the Baden districts.

history

The newspaper appeared from November 1, 1927. The publisher of this newspaper of the so-called Gaupresse of the NSDAP was the Führer-Verlag GmbH with seat in Karlsruhe in the Lammstrasse 1b. The newspaper first appeared with a weekly edition, and from 1931 onwards it was distributed as a daily newspaper with several side editions. The daily newspaper was printed both as a morning newspaper for seven days a week and an evening newspaper for five days a week. The retail price in 1939 was 10 Pfennig in the area of Baden and 15 Pfennig outside of Baden.

Tasks and expenses

From 1927 onwards, the newspaper had the task of clarifying the internal party fronts within the NSDAP. After that, the newspaper served as a combat and mobilization instrument for the NSDAP to spread its influence as a so-called combat paper to large parts of the population. In March 1933 the subline on the front page of the newspaper read: The Baden Combat Journal for National Socialist Politics and German Culture .

With a print edition of 41,132 copies in the main edition and with a total edition of 81,282 copies together with the secondary editions in January 1937, the newspaper was one of the largest of the NSDAP's Gaupresse. In May 1933 the newspaper took over the facilities of the banned SPD newspaper Der Volksfreund in Karlsruhe.

The newspaper appeared with four district editions (as of 1939):

The newspaper had a film and women supplement as additional editions. In 1939, there were external business and branch offices in Bruchsal, Rastatt, Baden-Baden, Gaggenau , Offenburg, Bühl, Kehl and Lahr.

Organization of the newspaper (as of 1937)

  • Publishing director: Emil Munz
  • Chief editor: Karl Neuscheler
  • Editor for politics: Georg Brixner
  • Editor for culture and entertainment: Günther Röhrdanz
  • Editor for sport and home section: Richard Volderauer
  • Editor for Badische Nachrichten: Hugo Büchler
  • Editor for local news: Max Lösche
  • Editor for economics: Fritz Feld
  • Editor for news of the NSDAP: Rolf Steinbrunn
  • Photo service: Fritz Schweizer
  • Advertising management: Karlheinz Windgassen
  • Local editor in Bruchsal: Michael Holtz
  • Local editor in Offenburg: Helmut Schaich
  • Local editor in Rastatt: EH Eustachi

Robert Wagner became the editor of the newspaper on November 5, 1927. Otto Wacker was honorary editor from November 1, 1927 to 1928, and honorary chief editor from April 1, 1928 to March 11, 1933. Friedhelm Kemper worked as the newspaper's sales manager from August 1930 to April 1933. Franz Moraller was the newspaper's main editor from July 1940 to 1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/titel.cgi?katkey=1222003&teil=&teil2=&start=1&sess=76639219eac0cf7f5a544798e92a7468&query=F%C3%BChrer&vr=1&pagesize=10
  2. ^ Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Berlin (ed.), Handbuch der Deutschen Tagespresse, Leipzig 1937, p. 6.
  3. ↑ See imprint: Der Führer of March 24, 1939.
  4. ^ Front page of the newspaper "Der Führer" from March 10, 1933
  5. ^ Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Berlin, ibid.
  6. ↑ Manfred Koch et al., In the center of people: Parliamentary speeches from Karlsruhe SPD members, Karlsruhe 2001, p. 31.
  7. ↑ Joachim Lilla u. a. (Editor): extras in uniform - the members of the Reichstag 1938-1945, Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, pp. 302, 425, 693 and 703.