The torch (Leipzig)

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The torch
The torch
description People's organ for Leipzig and the surrounding area
publishing company Leipzig: Cooperative Book Printing Company (Germany)
First edition 1876
attitude 1878
Frequency of publication three times a week / Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sundays
Editor-in-chief Julius Kuenzel
ZDB 977553-5

The torch was a popular organ for Leipzig and the surrounding area. The newspaper appeared from 1876 to 1878.

The “Leipziger Zeitungsverein” headed by Bruno Geiser was established in the premises of the Arbeiterbildungsverein with the aim of creating its own local newspaper alongside the Vorwärts newspaper published in Leipzig by Wilhelm Hasenclever and Wilhelm Liebknecht , the central organ of German social democracy . In the club restaurant Ritterstr. 43 II, “all those who are interested in the local paper 'Die Fackel', the people's organ for Leipzig and the surrounding area,” were called together to give the newspaper, which appears three times a week, a hand's breadth of water under the Kiel by founding a “Association 'Fackel” ” to secure. That was sorely necessary, if only because of the financial imbalance between the necessarily low subscription price and the paper and printing costs. Naturally, the introduction of a new newspaper was difficult, especially since the Leipzig Social Democrats were home to the central press of the "Bebel-Liebknecht" direction, but had not yet had their own local newspaper.

The social democratic Leipzig local organ Die Fackel appeared on December 25, 1876 as a sample number, since No. 1 of January 3, 1877 under the editing of Julius Künzel regularly three times a week (Tuesday / Wednesday, Thursday / Friday and Saturday / Sunday) at the quarterly price of 1 , 6 M. (monthly 60 Pfg., Individual number 5 Pfg.) And was discontinued with No. 117 of September 29, 1878, in order to anticipate the expected ban by the Socialist Law . It was to be replaced by the Neue Leipziger Zeitung für Stadt und Land from October 1, 1878 . Numerous penalties fell on Julius Künzel. At times, Max Preißer in Lindau (no. 85–86 from July 17 and 19, 1878) and Carl Schulze in Leipzig (no. 95 to 100 from August 9 - 21, 1878) took on responsibility for those from no from 23 August 1878 while his brother Ernst Künzel was imprisoned until the last no. 117 from 29 September 1878.

literature

  • Wolfgang Schröder: Leipzig - the cradle of the German labor movement roots and development of the workers' education association 1848/49 to 1878/81 ISBN 978-3-320-02214-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig - the cradle of the German labor movement by Wolfgang Schröder, pp. 288–289.