Frankfurter General-Anzeiger
The Frankfurter General-Anzeiger was a daily newspaper that was published in Frankfurt am Main from 1876 to 1943 under changing names. It appeared as the General-Anzeiger of the city of Frankfurt , at times also as the Frankfurter Anzeiger .
history
After the legal and tax restrictions were lifted by the Reich Press Law on July 1, 1874 , numerous new newspapers were founded in quick succession. The General-Anzeiger of the City of Cologne first appeared in 1875, the General-Anzeiger of the City of Frankfurt (1876), the Dortmunder General-Anzeiger (1879) and the Berliner General-Anzeiger (1883) and many other local newspapers followed. The new ventures were less politically, religious or ideologically motivated, but were viewed as pure investment objects.
The publishers of the General Anzeiger der Stadt Frankfurt am Main (GA) , which first appeared on May 26, 1876, were Heinrich Horstmann, son of the printer's owner Carl Horstmann and his cousin Georg Horstmann. The head office of the print shop, founded in 1836, was located in Großer Hirschgraben , and the newspaper was printed in Münzgasse 16. The General-Anzeiger was initially an advertising paper distributed free of charge with a circulation of just 10,000 copies. A little later, an editorial section was added and a subscription fee was charged for the first time . By 1880 the newspaper had 22,000 subscribers. Heinrich Horstmann died in 1888 and his cousin Georg ran the publishing house on his own.
Flowering period and end
During the First World War, the circulation jumped to 180,000 copies. The General-Anzeiger survived the war and the inflationary period without any problems, as the circulation leveled off again at 140,000 copies in 1926. The General-Anzeiger was thus the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in Frankfurt. In 1926 Erich Dombrowski became chief editor, through him the General-Anzeiger flourished again. After the end of the inflation, the single issue cost 10 pfennigs, on Saturdays 15 pfennigs, the monthly subscription cost 2.65 Reichsmarks . The street edition appeared at 11 a.m., the subscription edition was re- edited and appeared at 3 p.m. The future American economist Peter Drucker came to the General-Anzeiger in 1929. He wrote his first article for the newspaper on October 25, 1929 about the New York stock market crash, Black Thursday . Drucker reported that by 1930 the newspaper had only 14 editors .
The last edition of the General-Anzeiger appeared on March 31, 1943. Remaining subscribers received the "Frankfurter Volksblatt", a Nazi newspaper that was switched into line.
The Frankfurter Neue Presse (FNP), founded in 1946, acquired the title rights to the Frankfurter Generalanzeiger from Horstmann in 1949 . On April 1, 1952, the FNP appeared for the first time with the subtitle Generalanzeiger .
Well-known editors
- Erich Dombrowski , editor-in-chief 1926–1936
- Peter Drucker , Foreign Policy and Economics Departments 1929–1933 (emigrated)
- Artur Holde , music editor 1918–1933 (emigrated)
- Richard Kirn , sports and local editor
- Ludwig Marcuse , theater and literary critic 1925–1929
- Siegfried Melchinger , Head of the Culture Department during the National Socialist era
In the publishing house of the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger:
- Siegbert Tarrasch editor of the Frankfurt chess sheet from 1893 to 1895
building
Rossmarkt
The editions of the first years were still printed by Carl Horstmann at Münzgasse 45. The Frankfurter General-Anzeiger's first own printing and commercial building, Roßmarkt 20, at the corner of Große Gallusgasse (the "General-Anzeiger-Eck") was built in 1890 in neo -baroque style by the Frankfurt construction company Ph. Holzmann & Co. based on designs by the architect Franz built by Hoven . Directly opposite stood the Gutenberg memorial , which is now in the same place . The building housed the printing, administration and editorial rooms of the General-Anzeiger.
The ad receiving office was on the ground floor of the front building . The administration rooms were in the side building, the stereotype was housed in the basement .
The engines were in the basement of the rear building. The transmissions led through the ceiling to the rooms on the ground floor of the rear building where the printing machines were set up. The expedition room was on the first floor, the editorial office on the second , the typesetting room on the third and the advertising setting on the fourth. The house staff lived in the attic.
The building was destroyed during a bombing raid during World War II.
Schiller Street
In 1912 the General-Anzeiger moved from Roßmarkt to its newly built business and printing house at Schillerstrasse 19-25. The architects were Ludwig Bernoully and Adam Heinrich Assmann, who were determined through a competition. The building consisted of a main building with a length of 36 meters and a parallel machine house on Neue Taubenstrasse. Both were connected with a transverse wing. The editorial offices and advertising offices, the room for the newspaper rotary presses, the typesetting and stereotyping were housed in the buildings. The shipping department was on the courtyard side, the advertising expedition and subscription department on the ground floor on Schillerstrasse. Because of the heavy machinery and the vibration of the rotation, the ceilings were made of reinforced concrete and supported by massive beams and pillars. The outer walls were also built in reinforced concrete and clad on the side fronts with masonry concrete. The main facade on Schillerstraße was made of light tuff stone and artistically designed with stone carvings. This building still exists today.
literature
- Fried Lübbecke: Five hundred years of books and printing in Frankfurt am Main. H. Cobet, Frankfurt am Main 1948, p. 321ff.
- Kurt Pritzkoleit: Who Owns Germany: A Chronicle of Possession and Power , Desch, 1957, pp. 83, 84
- Wilhelm Kick (Ed.): Modern new buildings , 2nd year, Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1898. (for the commercial building on Roßmarkt built in 1890)
- Volker Rödel: Factory architecture in Frankfurt am Main, 1774–1924 - The history of industrialization in the 19th century . Societäts-Verlag, 1986, p. 472 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Wilke: Fundamentals of the media and communication history . UTB, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-3166-8 , p. 267
- ^ August Soppe: Radio in Frankfurt am Main 1923-1926. The history of the organization, program and reception of a new medium. KG Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-21574-6 , p. 102.
- ↑ Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte , Volume 16, Leipzig Working Group on the History of the Book Industry, in Komm. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2007, p. 128
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 44.1 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 33.4 ″ E