Frankfurter Postzeitung
The Frankfurter Postzeitung was one of the very first newspapers . It was probably founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1615 when Johann von den Birghden took over the Frankfurt post office as postmaster of the Imperial Post Office. The Imperial Post Office was operated by the Barons von Taxis, later Prince von Thurn und Taxis . The paper had subscribers all over Europe and was one of the few long-lived ones of the time - it appeared until 1866.
history
The Frankfurter Postzeitung as a news periodical appeared weekly until 1620 as a untitled newspaper , occasionally more often. From 1628 it was entitled Ordinary weekly postal newspapers .
The first editor was the imperial postmaster Johann von den Birghden and after his removal by Leonhard II von Taxis his successor Gerhard Vrints , temporarily also the Frankfurt publisher Johann Theobald Schönwetter .
Since 1706 at the latest the title has been Ordinary Weekly Kayserliche Reichs-Post-Newspapers , and later Franckfurter Kayserl. Reichs-Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung .
In 1810 all political newspapers in Frankfurt am Main were banned by the Napoleonic prince Karl Theodor von Dalberg . He approved a standard newspaper in German and French, the newspaper of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt . This emerged from the merger of the Frankfurter Kaiserl. Reichs-Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung with the Journal de Francfort . After Napoleon's defeat , both papers reappeared under their old titles.
The day after the Prussian army marched into the Free City of Frankfurt , the Frankfurter Postzeitung was finally banned on July 17, 1866. Her editor, Hofrat Fischer-Goullet, was arrested and suffered a fatal stroke during questioning .
The motto "Relata refero"
Johann Georg Hamann mentions the newspaper's motto in a letter to Rabbi Michaelis, the most honored and well-known, with the following words:
Of the Holy Roman Empire Postillon [Ordinary Weekly Imperial Postal Newspaper], the motto on the shield of his coat of arms: Relata refero [I report the report, cf. Herodotus VII 152], made me quite lustful about the last half of the Homilies de sacra poesi [the last part of the Lowth edition of Michaelis did not appear until 1761].
The choice of this motto vividly reflects the fact that in the early days of the press the editors saw themselves as mere distributors of curious news and unsecured news and refused to accept liability for the accuracy of their reports as well as specifying sources of information. The protection of informants , which is still common in journalism today, developed from this.
Title changes
- from 1615 (?) initially without a title!
- from 1621 unpredictable newspapers
- from 1623 weekly newspapers
- from 1628 Regular weekly postal newspaper (s)
- from 1706 Imperial imperial postal newspapers
- from January 1, 1754 Frankfurter Kayserliche Reichs-Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung
- from 9 September 1806 Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung
- from January 1, 1811 newspaper of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt
- from January 1, 1814 Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung
- from April 1, 1852 Frankfurter Postzeitung
Period of publication: 1615 to July 17, 1866
See also
literature
- Karl Heinz Kremer, Johann von den Birghden 1582–1645, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-934686-25-7
- Arnulf Kutsch, Johannes Weber: 350 years of daily newspaper, research and documents. Bremen 2002. Paperback, 220 pages. ISBN 3-934686-06-0 , (description / content)
- Karl Schottenloher: leaflet and newspaper. A guide through the printed daily literature, Volume 1: From the beginnings to 1848, Berlin, Schmidt 1922. Newly edited, introduced and supplemented by J. Binkowski, Munich, Klinkhardt and Biermann 1985, ISBN 3-781-40228-2
- Newspaper city Frankfurt am Main. On the history of the Frankfurt press over five centuries , published by Alfred Estermann on behalf of the Frankfurter Sparkasse, 315 pages, Frankfurt am Main 1994