German Rundschau in Poland

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The Deutsche Rundschau in Poland was a German daily newspaper in Poland, which appeared under this title since June 5, 1920 and was published in Bromberg ( Bydgoszcz ) for the German minority .

Foundation and history

The origins of this newspaper began on October 1, 1876, when the newspaper Bromberger Tageblatt , edited by Carl Dombrowski, appeared. August Dittmann took over this newspaper on November 1, 1876. - Since July 1, 1894, there was also the Ostdeutsche Rundschau newspaper for the Bromberg region . At that time the Bromberg region belonged to the Prussian province of Posen. - After the First World War and the associated cession of previously West Prussian and Poznan territories to the resurrected state of Poland, both newspapers were merged on January 1, 1920 to form the new newspaper Ostdeutsche Rundschau, Bromberger Tageblatt . This newspaper was then renamed on June 5, 1920 in Deutsche Rundschau in Poland .

The newspaper was published by August Dittmann GmbH, which had its headquarters in Bromberg at 13 Dworcowa street. The owners of this company in 1937 were Emil Dittmann and Hermann Dittmann. The newspaper appeared six times a week in German and had a readership of the German minority in Posen and Pomerania . The circulation in 1937 was around 15,000 copies. The political line of the newspaper was German national. Thus the newspaper was in the dispute over the political classification of the German population in Poland. One consequence was u. a. the ban on the newspaper from September 19 to October 17, 1920.

Two days after the attack by the German Wehrmacht on Poland on September 1, 1939, the newspaper had to temporarily stop its publication. As early as September 8, 1939, the newspaper appeared again as the Deutsche Rundschau and also functioned as the “official organ of the NSDAP and its branches”. The circulation area of ​​the newspaper included: city and district Bromberg, the districts Schwetz, Tuchel, Wirsitz and Zempelburg. - The last previously ascertainable edition of the Deutsche Rundschau was printed on December 27, 1944.

Editor-in-chief of the newspaper in Polish times was Dr. Gotthold Starke (1896–1968), who represented the newspaper's political line from 1922 to 1939. When the German troops marched into Poland, he was arrested and interned by the Polish authorities. During the riots on Bydgoszcz on September 3, 1939, there were also some victims among the newspaper's employees.

Organization of the newspaper (1937)

  • Editor-in-chief: Gotthold Starke
  • editor responsible for politics: Johannes Kruse
  • editor responsible for economics: Arno Ströse
  • Editor for local things from the city, country and non-political topics: Marian Hepke

credentials

  • Rolf Wingendorf: The destruction of the German press in Poland , 1921
  • Karl Bömer : Handbuch der Weltpresse , Leipzig 1937

literature

  • Traugott Mense: The national task of the German political daily press in West Prussia (Pomerania), presented at the "Deutsche Rundschau in Poland" 1925–1930 . Gdansk 1940

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