Dudweiler Newspaper

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Dudweiler Newspaper
Dudweiler Zeitung.jpg
description Saarland daily newspaper
language German
First edition 1888
attitude December 24, 1944
Frequency of publication since 1909 six times a week

The Dudweiler Zeitung was a daily newspaper in Saarland . It was founded in 1888, the so-called Dreikaiser year , by Johann Unterkeller († 1911). The man from Birkenfeld took over the official news bulletin of the mayor's office , which had been known as the “Dudweiler Anzeiger” . Other similar leaves were at that time in St. Johann St. issued, Catholic-oriented " Johanner Volkszeitung ”as well as the conservative Neue Saarbrücker Zeitung for which Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg was responsible . Furthermore, since 1883 there was still the “Malstatt-Burbacher Zeitung” , which represented the steel industry and published in Malstatt-Burbach , and the “Bergmannsfreund”, a weekly newspaper for the interests of miners. The independent daily newspaper had a circulation of 4,500 copies in 1930. Its publication was discontinued in the war year 1944.

history

The four-page sheet , which cost 70 pfennigs , has been published six times a week since 1909 . The first page was taken over by the Neunkircher Zeitung , so to speak as a cover part , only the following pages with local news, business and family advertisements were produced independently. It was also given the subtitle "General Gazette for the Mayor's District Dudweiler" and from 1917 "Official announcement organ". Johann's eldest son Arthur Unterkeller (1882–1921) is named as the responsible editor. Until 1913, the company was designed entirely for manual operation. In 1923, after a short interim phase, responsibility changed from Arthur's wife Emma to her new spouse Fritz Blankenburg. Under his leadership, renovations were carried out on the property: the old residential building , which dates back to the Baroque era , was torn down and replaced by the residential and commercial building that still stands today. In addition, two offices were added to the old laundry room and an additional “paper house” was built. In addition, the company finally got a rotary press . In mid-January 1926 Blankenburg died in a car accident.

The residential and commercial building at Saarbrücker Strasse 292 belonging to the Dudweiler Zeitung was built in 1925 by Emma Unterkeller's brother-in-law, community builder Heinrich Otto, and is a listed building.

As early as 1934, one year before the Saar vote , the paper was now subtitled “Official Gazette for the Mayor's Office Dudweiler - daily and advertising paper for trade and commerce” and comprised six pages with an additional four pages of special supplements on Saturdays. Christmas 1944 was believed to be the only temporary issue of the newspaper. After the end of the war, the Dudweiler Zeitung was the only operational newspaper printing company in Saarland and was initially confiscated by the Americans . Unfavorable personal relationships with the future Prime Minister of the Saarland, Johannes Hoffmann , prevented a license from being awarded despite multiple petitions to the state government . Only commercials were allowed to be printed. After 1955, when licensing was no longer required, the company was economically drained.

The publishing house and printer were then leased to the SPD and the machines were sold to them. This went hand in hand with the establishment of AZ (Allgemeine Zeitung), but just one year later the company moved into the “Volksstimme” building in Saarbrücken. In 1964, the company building was finally cleared of printing facilities and rented elsewhere.

literature

  • Salome Kootz, Peter Jurecka: The "Dudweiler Zeitung" - history and analysis of a local newspaper , Dudweiler Geschichtswerkstatt, Vol. 2, 1991, p. 61
  • Friedrich Meier: Salome Kootz, Historical Contributions , Dudweiler Geschichtswerkstatt, Volume 12, Pages 26–30, Dudweiler 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bgm. MB 429 "Malstatt-Burbacher-Zeitung", 1878-1907 (unit of description). In: Online research in the Saarbrücken city archive. Retrieved August 15, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Kootz (lit.)
  3. ↑ a b Clemens Zimmermann et al .: Medienlandschaft Saar, Vol. 1, Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2010, ISBN 9783486591705
  4. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments of the state capital Saarbrücken. (PDF; 653 kB) February 16, 2011, p. 29 , accessed on August 15, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Historical contributions from the work of the Dudweiler Geschichtswerkstatt, Saarbrücken-Dudweiler 1989, p. 67f.
  6. ↑ Contents of Volume 12 , Dudweiler History Workshop