Franconian press
The Franconian Press was a regional daily newspaper in Bayreuth . It existed from December 18, 1945 to December 31, 1967. On January 2, 1968 , it merged with the Bayreuther Tagblatt to form the North Bavarian Courier .
history
Founder of the newspaper was the publisher and SPD - politician Julius Steeger .
On November 16, 1945, the trained book printer Steeger founded the Steeger publishing house in Bayreuth with the aim of publishing a new newspaper for eastern Upper Franconia and parts of northern Upper Palatinate . The US military governor had a barrack confiscated by his troops cleared on Richard-Wagner-Strasse and the corner of Rathstrasse for the publishing house and the editorial team . The first issue of the Franconian Press was published as the first Bayreuth daily newspaper after the Second World War on December 18, 1945. At first there was only an edition on Tuesdays and Fridays, they were printed in Hof until April 1946 . On February 1, 1946, the publisher's own print shop went into operation in rented rooms on Schloßberglein , where initially only forms, brochures and business stationery were produced. In April 1946 the editorial team moved to the neighboring building at Maximilianstrasse 4. On September 25, 1946, Walter Fischer, who had returned from emigration, received newspaper license No. 112 from the US military government and joined the publishing house as the second license holder. As editor-in-chief and political publicist, he wrote more than 2,000 leading articles and had a decisive influence on the newspaper. From 1947 the publishing house was called Fränkische Presse Druckerei und Verlag Julius Steeger und Co GmbH .
In January 1949 the supplement Heimatbote appeared for the first time to maintain the home and cultural history of Upper Franconia and the Upper Palatinate, in that year with twenty-three issues. In the same year there were contributions in dialect for the first time in the local section of the Franconian press .
In 1949, the Franconian Press acquired a plot of land on the site of the former Main barracks not far from Bahnhofstrasse and built a new printing house there in what is now the street Am Jägerhaus , which was put into operation on December 16, 1950. In that year the “bourgeois local newspaper” Bayreuther Tagblatt , founded in 1856 and with which the Franconian Press was to merge in 1968, was allowed to appear again . At first, however, the two newspapers seemed to be "insurmountable in dislike, and the daily competition was not fought without poison and gall."
The widespread circulation of the Franconian press in the 4th quarter of 1957 was 34,068 copies (sold circulation: 30,458), of which 29,462 were delivered to subscribers.
Co-publisher Willi Kurtz entered into a trust relationship with the SPD in 1964. In 1967 the two daily newspapers threatened to be bought up by a large national paper. In this situation, the publishers Walter Fischer (Fränkische Presse) and Albert Ellwanger jr. (Bayreuther Tagblatt) to merge their previously competing newspapers. Since January 2, 1968, the daily newspaper Nordbayerischer Kurier appears instead .
editorial staff
The editors of the Franconian Press included u. a. Manfred Eger , Hans Lübeck and Jochen Waldmann .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth April 1945 . 1st edition. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2004, ISBN 3-8313-1463-2 , p. 42 .
- ↑ a b c d Karl Müssel: Bayreuth in eight centuries . 1st edition. Gondrom, Bindlach 1993, ISBN 3-8112-0809-8 , p. 222 .
- ^ Rainer Trübsbach: History of the City of Bayreuth . Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1993, ISBN 3-922808-35-2 , p. 359 .
- ^ A b Andreas Feser: Wealth power and media influence . 1st edition. 2003, ISBN 3-922808-35-2 , pp. 164 .
- ↑ Bernd and Gerda Mayer: Working and living in Bayreuth . Sutton, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-745-7 , p. 92 .
- ↑ Bernd Mayer : Bayreuth - The last fifty years . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1988, p. 130 .
- ↑ List of editions 1957 at ivw.de, accessed on March 12, 2016.
- ↑ Karl Müssel: Bayreuth in eight centuries. 1993, p. 247.