Frankfurter Journal

The Frankfurter Journal is one of the oldest German newspapers and was discontinued in 1903. At the end of the publication it appeared twice a day in Frankfurt am Main and belonged to the national-liberal spectrum. In addition, there was the daily Handelsblatt and the literary supplement Didaskalia .

development

The oldest number of the Frankfurter Journal still in existence dates from 1639. In the 17th century, the journal was entitled The Dutch Progress , as its news came mainly from Dutch sources.

The Serlin heirs were named as publishers until 1802 , although as early as 1798 the Frankfurt lawyer Dietz, who also headed the editorial department, had acquired the publishing rights together with others.

Between 1811 and 1813 the newspaper was suppressed by Grand Duke Carl Theodor von Dalberg , in 1814 it came into the hands of the printers Heller and Rohm and appeared daily until 1866. After changing hands several times since then, it belonged to a limited company in 1900 until it ceased publication on March 9, 1903 and was transferred to the publishing house of JG Holtzwart's successor, S. Minjon . Here it was combined with the Frankfurter Intellektivenblatt , which has been published since 1722 . The title Didaskalia has now been added to the entertainment supplement of this newspaper. For several years the responsible editors of this supplement included u. a. the later literary historian Adolf Bartels .

The political line of the Frankfurter Journal was national-liberal and sharply anti-clerical. Especially against the Mainz Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler there was a sharp polemic. The newspaper also sympathized with the German Catholics and adopted the line of the radical Hessian teachers' movement under Johann Schmitt in terms of school policy.

literature

• Frankfurter Journal . In: Martin Feller: The poet in politics. Victor Hugo and the Franco-German War of 1870/71 . Phil. Diss., Marburg 1988, pp. 66-69 (with further references to sources and literature).