German La Plata newspaper

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German La Plata newspaper

description daily newspaper
Area of ​​Expertise Latest news, propaganda
language German Spanish
publishing company Germann Tjarks & Co ( Argentina )
First edition 1874
attitude 1945
Frequency of publication Every day
Sold edition 25,000 to 30,000 copies
(1929–1933)
editor Hermann Tjarks, Emil Tjarks
executive Director Hermann Tjarks, Emil Tjarks

The Deutsche La Plata Zeitung was a German-language newspaper published in Argentina . At times it was the largest German-language newspaper in South America with up to 120 employees.

history

The newspaper was originally founded and published in Buenos Aires in 1863 under the name La Plata Zeitung . It was renamed in 1874 and taken over by the German emigrant Hermann Tjarks in 1880 . He came from a family originally based in Carolinensiel who had emigrated to Argentina via Hamburg . After his death in 1916, his son Emil continued the business. The newspaper was banned in 1945 and from then on published under a new name as the Free Press .

The "press war"

The Deutsche La Plata Zeitung was in sharp competition with the liberal - democratic Argentinian daily newspaper . As early as 1907, the Deutsche La Plata Zeitung tried unsuccessfully to organize an advertising boycott against the German-language daily newspaper, which was founded in 1889 , because, in the opinion of La Plata , it had reported too positively on the election successes of the Social Democrats in Germany. During the First World War , however, the rivalry between the two newspapers was not only suspended, there were even acts of solidarity.

After the end of the war, the conflicts intensified more than ever. While the Tageblatt took a clear stand in favor of the Weimar Republic and resolutely rejected and fought against National Socialism , the La Plata newspaper became a reservoir for a conservative and monarchist readership that was increasingly being co- opted by National Socialist organizations in Argentina. They recognized the importance of the paper early on in order to win over the 250,000 Germans living in Argentina at the time for National Socialism. During a visit to his home country in April 1933, a few months after the NSDAP came to power in Germany, editor Emil Tjarks was received personally by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels . On this occasion he gave the Völkischer Beobachter an interview in which his anti-Semitic sentiments were clearly revealed.

Decline and end

Since the German-speaking Jews in Argentina in particular no longer advertised in the Deutsche La Plata newspaper and the paper was also increasingly printing free calls from the Argentine NSDAP regional group, the newspaper was facing ruin in 1938, which only resulted from the delivery of 100 tons of newsprint and Payment of 20,000 Reichsmarks could be averted by the German Propaganda Ministry .

After the Argentine freighter Uruguay was sunk by a German submarine on May 27, 1940 and 15 Argentine seamen were unable to save themselves, there were open riots against the publisher. On October 17, 1944, the German La Plata newspaper had to cease its publication by decree of the Argentine government.

Emil Tjarks tried to continue the Deutsche La Plata Zeitung on December 1, 1944 with the publication of the newspaper , but its publication ended unspectacularly with the Argentine declaration of war on the Axis powers on March 27, 1945.

Publications

  • To celebrate the centennial of Argentina. Fixed edition of the Deutsche La Plata Zeitung u. La Plata Post. Germann Tjarks & Co., Buenos Aires around 1910, OCLC 253222569 .
  • German La Plata newspaper. Germann Tjarks & Co., Buenos Aires 1874-1945, OCLC 19867448 .
  • Free press. Buenos Aires, since 1945, OCLC 647996747 .

literature

  • Georg Ismar: The German-Argentine press dispute - The dispute between Argentinisches Tageblatt and the German La Plata newspaper. (= German-Latin American research. Volume 1.) Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-865-73179-1 . ( online PDF file; 861 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b German-language newspapers in Argentina (1930–1945). at quetzal-leipzig.de, accessed on September 4, 2014.
  2. ^ Kerstin E. Schirp: German La Plata newspaper. in: The weekly newspaper “Semanario Israelita”. Spokesman for the German-Jewish emigrants in Argentina. (= Dissertation, University of Hamburg) Lit, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-825-85678-X , ( online p. 52/53. )
  3. ↑ The Argentinische Tageblatt 1933–1945 on ifz-muenchen.de, accessed on September 4, 2014. (PDF, p. 5.)
  4. ^ Georg Ismar: The German-Argentine press dispute - the dispute between the Argentinisches Tageblatt and the German La Plata newspaper. (PDF, p. 2.)
  5. ↑ The freighter Uruguay on uboat.net (English)