Eupener Zeitung

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The Eupener Zeitung was a newspaper in the first Prussian and later East Belgian district of Eupen and existed from 1827 to September 1944. According to its own information, it was the oldest German-language daily newspaper published in Belgium.

After the Eupen district fell to Belgium in the Treaty of Versailles , the newspaper took a course directed against Belgium. After the Second World War a new newspaper appeared under the same name.

prehistory

After the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Habsburg Netherlands were merged with the (northern) Netherlands. Because of a partly similar story, this was thought to be a good solution. The regent Wilhelm I ruled the Kingdom of the United Netherlands as an "enlightened despot". Wilhelm I caused antipathy with some measures in the south of the empire. His religious and educational policies were very controversial because the Catholics felt they were disadvantaged and the king tried to enforce the Dutch language in the south of what is now Belgium. The politically organized Catholics and the liberals of the country jointly demanded reforms, which Wilhelm I rejected in principle.

In 1830 the Belgian Revolution took place .

history

The newspaper was founded on January 12, 1827 under the name Korrespondenzblatt des Kreis Eupen based on a proposal by District Administrator Bernhard von Scheibler . The editor was Gustav Tilgenkamp, ​​whose family owned the newspaper until it was closed. Since the newspaper had no editorial staff, only sent in texts and statements from the government were published.

During the First World War, German troops were in East Belgium; they cracked down on real or perceived rebels.

The areas in eastern Belgium that were separated from the German Empire by the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 and whose largely German-speaking population thus became Belgian citizens are referred to as Ostbelgien or "Belgian East Cantons" (in the 1920s the expression New Belgium was common).

In 1921 the name of the newspaper was changed to Eupener Zeitung . The old name has been retained in the subtitle. A newspaper with this title had already appeared in Eupen from 1869 to 1916. The seat of the newspaper was in the year 1937 in the Eupener Klosterstrasse. The number of printed copies in 1937 was 4,500. Gustav Tilgenkamp held the post of director as well as the so-called chief editor. Wilhelm Berg was employed as the editor. From February 3, 1937 to August 1944, a supplement with the title Eupener Land appeared in the newspaper . Leaves for folk and homeland .

Until the beginning of the Second World War, the volumes of the newspaper were deposited in the Eupen municipal museum . The most important German-language newspapers from 1827 to 1944, with the exception of Grenz-Echo, have been available online since summer 2019. After the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940 , the newspaper was brought into line by the Nazi regime and the newspaper was converted into an external organ of the West German observer .

literature

  • Fixed number for the 100th anniversary on January 12, 1927
  • J-.G. Heinen: New contributions to the history of Eupen. Features of the Eupener Zeitung 1898–1902, Eupen, Archive of the History of the City of Eupen, 1989 (published as a reprint)
  • Heinz Warny: Two centuries of German-language newspaper in East Belgium: Correspondence sheet of the Malmedy district, correspondence sheet of the Eupen district, The flying dove, Der Volksfreund, Grenz-Echo Welkenraedt, Grenz-Echo, Eupener Zeitung, La Semaine, St. Vither Volkszeitung, Volksstimme, Der Landbote, Grenzland-Report, Neue Nachrichten, AVZ Ostbelgien, Eupen 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Bömer , Handbuch der Weltpresse, Leipzig 1937, p. 21
  2. ^ Association des archivistes et bibliothécaires (Belgium), Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique, 1978, p. 148 There is incorrectly given 1925 as the year of the change of the title of the newspaper>
  3. ^ After the publication of Zeitungs-Verlag: Fachblatt für das Gesamt Zeitungswesen from 1940, p. 178, the title was changed in 1921
  4. ↑ In the head of the edition of the newspaper of May 22, 1935 it is stated: "From 1827-1921 Official circular sheet for the Eupen district"
  5. ↑ Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau, Griff nach dem Westen: The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919-1960), Münster 2003, p. 831
  6. ^ Archive of German-language newspapers in Ostbelgien from 1827 to 1944 on the Geschichte.be website
  7. ↑ http://www.zeitenblicke.de/2004/01/fickers/index.html