Frankfurter Neue Presse

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Frankfurter Neue Presse
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description daily newspaper
language German
publishing company Frankfurter Societät ( Germany )
Headquarters Frankfurt am Main
First edition April 15, 1946
Frequency of publication daily except Sundays
Editor-in-chief Max Rempel
executive Director Max Rempel
Daniel Schöningh
Web link fnp.de
ZDB 126029-7

The Frankfurter Neue Presse (FNP) is a German daily newspaper with a focus on local and regional topics. It is published in Frankfurt am Main and - like the Frankfurter Rundschau , with which it forms the media group Frankfurt - was majority owned by the Fazit Foundation until March 2018 . At the beginning of February 2018 it was announced that their shares in both newspapers were to be sold to the newspaper holding Hessen by Dirk Ippen . The Federal Cartel Office approved the sales at the beginning of March 2018, “because this would end the FAZ Group's monopoly in the city.” The change of ownership took place at the beginning of April 2018.

history

The FNP was founded on April 15, 1946 under license from the American military government as a conservative counterpart to the left-liberal Frankfurter Rundschau . It was the 32nd newspaper in the US zone. The GH 201 license was given to Hugo Stenzel and August Heinrich Berning, who was replaced by Leopold Goldschmidt on August 5, 1947.

From January 20, 1949 until his death on July 20, 1964, Stenzel was the sole publisher . He was followed by Werner Wirthle , managing director of the Frankfurter Societät, and from 1991 to the end of March 2007 Volker W. Grams, responsible managing director. His successor on April 1, 2007 was Hans Homrighausen. Oliver Rohloff has been Managing Director since March 2015.

The publishers formulated the aim and task of the new newspaper in 1946 as follows: “For international reconciliation, religious tolerance, social progress and the politics of a broad, positive center. Against nationalism. For democracy, against perishable prejudices, for new cultural building from real forces and against the decomposition of life. "

The editorial staff of the Frankfurter Neue Presse was initially housed in the former Frankfurter General-Anzeiger at Rahmhofstrasse 4. The Horstmann company acquired the title rights to the Frankfurter Generalanzeiger in 1949 .

On August 1, 1955, the Frankfurter Societäts -Druckerei GmbH, owner of the publishing rights of the Frankfurter Zeitung , published until 1943 , publisher of the Frankfurter Illustrierte and the magazine Die Gegenwart , took part in the Neue Presse GmbH publishing house.

distribution

The sheet is published and printed by Frankfurter Societäts -Medien GmbH.

The FNP city edition covers the inner city area of ​​Frankfurt and the southern, northern and eastern districts. Several headers , which differ in terms of their regional / local section and title, cover the rest of the distribution area:

  • Höchst district sheet for the western districts of Frankfurt and the Main-Taunus district (former district of Höchst )
  • Nassauische Neue Presse for the central Hessian area around Limburg as well as communities close to the border in the Westerwaldkreis and in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Taunus-Zeitung with the Usinger Neue Presse for the Hochtaunuskreis
  • Bad Vilbeler New press for Bad Vilbel, Karben, the Wetterau and parts of the Main-Kinzig district
  • Neu-Isenburg New Press for Neu-Isenburg, Dreieich, Langen, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Offenbach District, Kelsterbach, Raunheim and other parts of the Groß-Gerau District.
  • Rüsselsheimer Echo for the city of Rüsselsheim am Main and the surrounding municipalities Raunheim, Bischofsheim, Ginsheim-Gustavsburg, Groß-Gerau, Nauheim and Trebur (since 2015)

Taunus newspaper

The Taunus-Zeitung is the market leader among the daily newspapers in the Hochtaunus district. The first edition of the Königsteiner-Kronberger Anzeiger appeared in 1877 (from No. 28: Official Gazette of the Koenigstein District). Since October 1880 this paper has been called the Taunuszeitung. The Taunus-Zeitung has existed in its current form as the header of the FNP since January 2, 1970. In addition to the eponymous newspaper from Königstein, "Der Taunusbote", the "Taunusanzeiger" from Oberursel and the "Kronberger Anzeiger" were added to the new paper merged.

Edition

The circulation of the Frankfurter Neue Presse is reported together with the Rhein-Main-Zeitung (Frankfurter regional edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ) and since the second quarter of 2013 also the Frankfurter Rundschau . The sold circulation fell from 203,613 copies in the first quarter of 1998 to 162,856 copies in the first quarter of 2013, a decrease of 20.0 percent. In the second quarter of 2013, the sold circulation rose to 231,478 copies and then fell to the current 153,587 copies, a decrease of 33.6 percent. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 88.3 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

1998 to 2013 Frankfurter Neue Presse and Rhein-Main-Zeitung; since 2013 also with Frankfurter Rundschau

The Rhein-Main-Zeitung , the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Frankfurter Neue Presse with their headers had a combined reach of 593,000 readers in 2018 .

Editors-in-chief

  • 1946–1947 August Heinrich Berning and Hugo Stenzel
  • 1947–1949 Leopold Goldschmidt
  • 1949–1965 Marcel Schulte
  • 1965–1967 Friedrich Herzog
  • 1967–1979 Robert Schmelzer
  • 1979–1985 Hans-Joachim Nimtz
  • 1985-1991 Paul Pucher
  • 1992–1995 Peter Fischer
  • 1996–1997 Paul-Josef Raue
  • 1997-2007 Gerhard Mumme
  • 2007–2016 Rainer Maria Gefeller
  • 2016–2018 Joachim Braun
  • since April 2018 Max Rempel (from August 2018 to January 2020 together with Matthias Thieme)

The editorial office of the FNP is in the Frankenallee in Frankfurt-Gallus . Today, the paper sees itself as a rather conservative daily newspaper.

literature

  • Alfred Estermann (Ed.): Newspaper City Frankfurt am Main. On the history of the Frankfurt press in five centuries. Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-89282-028-7 .
  • Dietmar Gutberlet: The "Frankfurter Neue Presse". Dissertation at the Philipps University . Marburg 1965

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau and FNP before sale. ( Memento from February 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) On: hessenschau.de from February 9, 2018
  2. ^ The publisher Ippen is allowed to buy Frankfurter Rundschau and FNP. ( Memento from March 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) On: hessenschau.de from March 5, 2018
  3. ↑ Königstein in the past and present: on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the city charter, 1963, p. 143, snippet advertisement
  4. ↑ From home and from all over the world; in: Taunus-Zeitung of January 2, 2020, p. 9.
  5. ↑ RheinMainMedia ivw.eu
  6. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  7. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
  8. ↑ Media data 2019 rmm.de