Duisburg General-Anzeiger

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The Duisburger General-Anzeiger was a regional daily newspaper for the Rhine-Ruhr estuary. It was founded in October 1881 as "Duisburger Tageblatt" with the subtitle "General-Anzeiger" and renamed in September 1893. According to the name, the newspaper was the second "Tageblatt", as a forerunner had already existed in 1875.

After the renaming, the newspaper called itself General-Anzeiger for Duisburg, Ruhrort and the surrounding area . Two local editions appeared, the Duisburger Tageblatt and the Ruhrorter Lokalanzeiger . The newspaper appeared every day except Sunday, with the Saturday edition having the Sunday newspaper as a supplement . The newspaper was published by Ferdinand Strunck in Duisburg. Around 1900 the circulation was around 14,000 copies.

In 1904 the publisher Carl Lange acquired the newspaper, which was subsequently published by the latter with the Hamborner Generalanzeiger , which he founded in 1905, and the Oberhausen Generalanzeiger , which he founded in 1904 . After Lange's death, Carl Fincken became the general representative of the heirs and in 1925 sole managing partner of the publishing house. By 1930 the three daily newspapers had a combined circulation of around 75,000 copies.

The Duisburger General-Anzeiger was a neutral, bourgeois newspaper. With its self-described non-partisanship, it appealed to the apolitical mass of the population and had journalistic predominance in Duisburg and the surrounding area for decades .

The newspaper had to give up and discontinue in 1966 due to competition in the press. The role as the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in Duisburg was subsequently taken over by the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, which was published in Essen .

Web links

• digitized volumes of the "Duisburger General-Anzeiger" 1883-1935

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner, Joseph: Handbuch der Presse. Berlin / Eisenach / Leipzig: Hermann Hillger Verlag, 1902, Sp. 429 (contains further information)
2. ↑ Fincken, Carl, Clemens, August. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 437.