The Upper Silesian courier
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| description | catholic newspaper |
| publishing company | Fritz Wenske - Courier GmbH |
| First edition | 1906 |
| attitude | 1945 |
| Frequency of publication | daily from Monday to Saturday |
The Upper Silesian Kurier was a Catholic daily newspaper from Königshütte / Kattowitz founded in 1906 .
In addition to the main business in Kattowitz and Königshütte, the newspaper had branches in 1919 in Beuthen, Hindenburg, Laurahütte, Myslowitz and Rybnik.
history
This newspaper was founded in 1906 by the brothers Fritz and Alfred Wenske in Königshütte . The newspaper was always strictly Catholic.
In 1919 the Upper Silesian courier had a circulation of 50,000 copies.
In 1922 the newspaper became the organ of the Catholic People's Party (until 1921: ZENTRUM ).
References
literature
- Bernhard Gröschel : Topics and tendencies in the headlines of the Kattowitzer Zeitung and the Oberschlesischer Kurier 1925 - 1939: Analysis of the reporting on the situation of the German minority in East Upper Silesia , Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1993 (= writings of the Haus Oberschlesien Foundation: Landeskundliche Reihe, vol. 6 ) ISBN 3-7861-1719-5
- Jan Szturc: Dzieje literatury polsko-ewangelickiej na Górnym Śląsku , 2006
- Archive for the Book Industry, Volume 54 , A. Waldow, 1917
- Dorota Simonides, Jan Zaremba: Śląskie miscellanea: literatura - folklor , Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, Wydawn. Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2006
- Alfons Perlick : Upper Silesian miners and smelters: life pictures from the Upper Silesian industrial area . Holzner, Kitzingen / Main 1953.
- Otto Heike: Das Deutschtum in Polen, 1918-1939 , publishing house for holistic research, 1995