Fædrelandet

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Fædrelandet ( Danish for: "the fatherland") was a national liberal daily in Denmark from 1834 to 1882 .

One of the co-founders and editors was the professor of political economy Christian Nathan David (1793–1874). The newspaper was aimed at an elite and was academic in style with little newsworthiness.

David was charged in 1834 under the "Print Freedom Ordinance" ( Trykkefrihedsforordningen ) after the lawyer Orla Lehmann (1810–1870) described the assemblies of estates introduced in 1831 as the "first step towards popular rule" on the first page . As a result, however, David was acquitted. Another well-known political editor was DG Monrad , the creator of the Danish constitution and later Prime Minister.

Fædrelandet became the opinion-forming newspaper in the struggle for a free constitution and for the eider policy of the De Nationalliberale movement in the 1840s .

After the Basic Law of Denmark became a reality in 1849, the newspaper stuck to its national liberal position, but took over a. under Carl Ploug (1813–1894) an increasingly system-preserving role. From 1841, Ploug was an editor for over 40 years. It was he who introduced the format of the editorial in the Danish press.

In Georg Brandes ' fable “The Story of Little Red Riding Hood ” ( Historien om den lille Rødhætte ), the newspaper as an “opposition press ” is polemicized, which has become a paper that attacks the new ideas of freedom like a wolf in the shape of Little Red Riding Hood.

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