The Green Post

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The Green Post first appeared on April 10, 1927 . The Sunday newspaper for town and country from Ullstein Verlag was originally designed for the rural population. However, the weekly paper soon enjoyed great popularity among all sections of the population and had a circulation of over a million copies.

The founder and editor-in-chief was initially Richard Katz . Ehm Welk , who became known as a writer through his heathen von Kummerow , was one of the authors. Using the pseudonym Thomas Trimm, he wrote an editorial entitled Mr. Reichsminister, a word please! wore. Joseph Goebbels had him deposed, Welk was sent to the Oranienburg concentration camp for a time and was banned from working after his release .

literature

  • Karl Schottenloher: leaflet and newspaper. A guide through the printed daily literature, Volume 1: From the beginnings to 1848, Berlin, Schmidt 1922. Newly edited, introduced and supplemented by J. Binkowski, Munich, Klinkhardt and Biermann 1985, ISBN 3-781-40228-2
  • Arnulf Kutsch, Johannes Weber: 350 years of daily newspaper, research and documents. Bremen 2002. Paperback, 220 pages. ISBN 3-934686-06-0

Individual evidence

  1. Carl Jödicke : When advertising was still called propaganda . In: Joachim Freyburg (ed.): Hundert Jahre Ullstein 1877–1977 . Volume 3. Ullstein, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-550-07373-9 , pp. 119–150, here p. 139.

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