German newspaper and business newspaper
The Deutsche Zeitung was a German newspaper . The successor sheet is currently published regularly as a supplement to the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die ZEIT under the title Christ und Welt .
history
The newspaper was founded in 1946 as a weekly newspaper with the title Wirtschafts-Zeitung . The initiators were former editors of the Frankfurter Zeitung (FZ), which was discontinued in 1943 , the then deputy editor-in-chief, Erich Welter and the last trade editor Otto Hoffmann, who brought other former editors of the FZ such as Nikolas Benckiser , Eberhard Schulz and Jürgen Tern to the new editorial office. The former commission agent for print jobs, Curt E. Schwab, whose brother emigrated in 1933 and returned to Germany as an occupation officer, acted as license holder.
The newspaper appeared in the Curt E. Schwab GmbH publishing company, half of which were Welter and Schwab. A few weeks after the newspaper was founded, Schwab also took over Welter's shares, as the American occupation authorities had classified it as encumbered. Schwab did not accept the proposal to convert the company into a foundation and let all editors share in the profits. As a result, almost all the editors of the former Frankfurter Zeitung quit in order to pursue the project of a national daily newspaper for Germany with Welter. This led to the founding of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1949 .
The Wirtschafts-Zeitung was renamed shortly afterwards in Deutsche Zeitung with Wirtschaftszeitung and appeared twice a week. After 1955 the circulation fell, whereupon Schwab tried to stabilize it as a daily newspaper. The editorial team moved from Stuttgart to Cologne, where the newspaper was printed from 1959 by the DuMont Schauberg publishing house . Only the sales department and Helmut Cron remained in Stuttgart as editor. Eventually Schwab was paid out and the publishing house continued as a foundation.
In 1971 the paper merged with the weekly newspaper Christ und Welt , which was published by Holtzbrinck-Verlag and moved from Stuttgart to Bonn when it was merged. The common title was now Deutsche Zeitung. Christ and the World (DZ). Sold in 1980 to the German Bishops' Conference , the newspaper merged with the Catholic weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur , of which the bishops were co-editors. The Rhenish Mercury. Christ und Welt , however, fell short of expectations in its edition and had to be subsidized from church taxes. Sold in 2010, the paper is currently appearing under the title Christ and World as a supplement to the weekly newspaper Die ZEIT .