The watch
| The watch
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| description | first organ of Catholic youth associations, then of the BDKJ |
| language | German |
| First edition | 1905 |
| attitude | 1955 |
| Frequency of publication | biweekly |
| ISSN (print) | 2509-2472 |
Die Wacht was a magazine within the Catholic youth work in Germany. Since it was founded in 1905, it was initially the organ of the Association of Catholic Youth and Young Men’s Associations in Germany (from 1930: Catholic Youth Association of Germany, KJMVD) and was re-established from 1948 as the central organ of the Federation of German Catholic Youth , which was founded in 1947 .
history
The magazine was published biweekly from 1905 to October 1938 (34th year), when it was banned by the National Socialists , and then again from March 1948 (35th year) to December 1955 (42nd year). Initially it was subtitled magazine for young Catholic men , from year 19 (1923/24) it was subtitled magazine of the Catholic youth and young men’s associations in Germany . Before the Second World War, the publisher was the Association of Catholic Youth and Young Men’s Associations in Germany and then the Federation of German Catholic Youth. Was moved The Guard initially published by the West German Workers' Newspaper in Munich-Gladbach , from 1 October 1914 at the General Secretariat of the Central Association in Dusseldorf (later publisher youth center Dusseldorf ), and from 1948 the publishing house Altenberg . The general Sunday newspaper was the successor to the watch .
In the phase up to 1938, the authors u. a. the writer Heinrich Bachmann , the activist and youth leader Adalbert Probst and Georg Thurmair , who was a member of the editorial team from 1934. The latter published there in 1935 the Altenberg pilgrimage song he wrote, Well, Brothers, We Are Happy, and the song originally referred to as the “travel song” We are only guests on earth . Fritz Stelzer also worked as a graphic artist and illustrator for Die Wacht .
Title ties
Under the title Die Wacht also appeared:
- from 1888 to 1900 a "magazine for simplified German stenography (Stolze-Schrey unification system)";
- 1904/1905 in Berlin an “illustrated weekly for the entire Christian life”;
- from 1905 to 1917 a newspaper in Eilenburg as an "organ to represent the interests of the small town and country teachers of the Prussian monarchy";
- from 1908 to 1920 a "Monthly for Church Evangelism and Community Care" of the Association of Church Communities in Silesia;
- from 1919 to 1923 in Barmen a "German national people's paper";
- from 1920 to 1925 a weekly "troop newspaper for the military district II" in Stettin .
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria Margarete Linner: Song and singing in the denominational youth movement of the early 20th century. Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59148-2 , pp. 201–205.
- ↑ stabikat.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
- ↑ stabikat.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de