Freiburg newspaper

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Freiburg newspaper
Title head Freiburger Zeitung 1899-02-01.svg
description Freiburg daily newspaper
publishing company Poppen & Ortmann (since 1863)
First edition January 3, 1784
attitude February 27, 1943
Frequency of publication daily since 1821
Article archive Freiburg newspaper digital
ZDB 2186077-4
View of the house of the Freiburger Zeitung around 1900 next to the Martinstor

The Freiburger Zeitung was a daily newspaper published in Freiburg im Breisgau . It was founded in 1784 under the name “Freyburgerzeitung” and was published until 1943. Today, the newspaper is an essential source of everyday, local and regional history in Freiburg.

history

The Freyburgerzeitung first appeared on January 3, 1784 and has been published regularly since 1793. The newspaper was published on January 1, 1821 under the name “Freiburger Zeitung”. The printer, publisher and title of the newspaper changed several times: from the Vorderösterreichische Provinzialnachrichten (1788–1792) to the General Intelligence or Wochenblatt for the Land of Breisgau and Ortenau (1804–1807) and the Grand Ducal-Baden privileged Freyburger Zeitung ( 1808–1810) for the Freyburger Wochenblatt (1810–1820).

The newspaper formerly owned by the city was published by the company HM Poppen & Sohn (since 1918: Poppen & Ortmann ) from 1863 . This placed the center of the publishing activity of the company. On October 1, 1881, the Freiburg newspaper was again official proclamation sheet after this property for some time the Breisgauer newspaper had held that this had in turn taken over by the Friborg newspaper.

In 1904 an architectural competition was held to build a commercial building on Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse for the Freiburger Zeitung. The winner of the competition was the Freiburg architect Carl Anton Meckel , but the design was implemented by Billing & Mallebrein . Billing's design was very similar to Meckel's, which after a publication in the Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung in 1906 led to a public controversy between the two. On the facade of the house there are two figures by Friedrich Meinecke , one of which represents Johannes Gutenberg . On October 12, 1916, the building was hit by an aerial bomb. “All windows, even the big one in the office building, Kaiserstraße 119, broke. The whole parapet was in the dead end. ”Reads the inscription on a plaque on the roof terrace.

From 1935 the National Socialists tried to restrict the independence of the Freiburger Zeitung. The publishers Adolf Poppen (on October 15, 1935) and Max Ortmann (on October 30, 1935) "were excluded from the rice press chamber [...] on the basis of Section 10 of the first ordinance for the implementation of the Reich Chamber of Culture Act of November 1, 1933 ] and further activity as a newspaper publisher [prohibited] ". Articles by a former Jewish employee and a former editor from the period up to March or May 1933 as well as "up to the present" publications of Jewish advertisements and the Jewish worship gazette were cited as reasons. During the following weeks, due to the significantly increased pressure on the publishers, the Freiburger Zeitung was sold to Vera Verlagsanstalt GmbH from Berlin, a subsidiary of the central publishing house of the NSDAP, the Franz-Eher-Verlag . Even if the connections were not apparent to all citizens from the start, Vera Verlagsanstalt GmbH was said to be very close to official bodies in the population. In addition to remuneration for the newspaper rights, Poppen & Ortmann was promised a 10-year printing contract.

The newspaper was published with the weekend edition No. 58/59 from 27./28. February 1943 in the 160th year. To justify this, reference is made to the “requirements of total war ” on the title page of the last issue . The hiring would "free more workers for the Wehrmacht and armaments industry."

House of the Freiburger Zeitung in Freiburg, today's headquarters of the office and the city editorial office of the Badische Zeitung , which, like the Freiburger Zeitung at the time, belongs to the family-run printing company with the Poppen & Ortmann publishing house .

1950 brought Poppen & Ortmann entitled Freiburger newspaper as a partner of the Baden publisher in the Badische Zeitung one. The name Freiburger Zeitung is used to this day for the Freiburg local section of the Badische Zeitung. At the end of 2014, work began on renovating the office building on behalf of Poppen & Ortmann and Badischer Verlag. Since May 18, 2016 the office, the local and Breisgau editors of the Badische Zeitung and the editors of fudder.de have been located there .

Preservation and digitization

Practically all volumes of the newspaper are completely preserved. The oldest volumes were initially collected and preserved in the Freiburg City Archives , the newer volumes in the Freiburg University Library . Since the original material was threatened by the extensive use for research purposes and the aging of the paper, the university library transferred the entire newspaper to microfilm in the 1980s . The originals could then be withdrawn from use.

Beginning in September 2000, the entire newspaper was then digitized for publication on the Internet . For this purpose, the microfilm templates were scanned in black and white and processed for Internet presentation. However, the digitized version was not processed with a text recognition program , so that it is only available as a facsimile in the form of image files and, for example, a full text search is not possible.

Web links

Commons : Freiburger Zeitung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freiburg newspaper digital on the pages of the Freiburg University Library
  2. ↑ a b pek: Freiburg: The story of a publishing house in family hands . Badische Zeitung, May 14, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ History | Poppen & Ortmann. May 28, 2019, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Information on Poppen & Ortmann's publishing activities , accessed on February 26, 2015
  5. ↑ Staufener Wochenblatt of October 4, 1881, digitized version
  6. ↑ Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: The architect Max Meckel 1847-1910. Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany . Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X , p. 379 .
  7. ↑ Michael Klant: Forgotten sculptors. In: Sculpture in Freiburg. Volume 2: 19th Century Art in Public Space. Modo, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , pp. 164-172, especially p. 172
  8. ↑ bz: Freiburg: First World War: When bombs fell on Freiburg 100 years ago. Badische Zeitung, October 12, 2016, accessed on December 28, 2016 .
  9. ^ Thomas Schnabel: Freiburg press fight at the beginning of the Third Reich . In: Verlag Poppen & Ortmann (ed.): Freiburger Almanach (=  Freiburg Almanach ). tape 1987 . Poppen & Ortmann, ISSN  0429-6486 , p. 66 .
  10. ^ Thomas Schnabel: Freiburg press fight at the beginning of the Third Reich . In: Verlag Poppen & Ortmann (ed.): Freiburger Almanach (=  Freiburg Almanach ). tape 1987 . Poppen & Ortmann, ISSN  0429-6486 , p. 64-65 .
  11. ^ Franz Eher Nachf. Verlag (Central Publishing House of the NSDAP) - Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  12. ^ A b Thomas Schnabel: Freiburg press fight at the beginning of the Third Reich . In: Verlag Poppen & Ortmann (ed.): Freiburger Almanach (=  Freiburg Almanach ). tape 1987 . Poppen & Ortmann, ISSN  0429-6486 , p. 66 .
  13. ^ Thomas Schnabel: Freiburg press battle at the beginning of the Third Reich (Part 1: 1986, Part 2: 1987) . In: Verlag Poppen & Ortmann (ed.): Freiburger Almanach (=  Freiburg Almanach ). tape 1986, 1987 , no. 1986, 1987 . Poppen & Ortmann, ISSN  0429-6486 , p. 91-67 (1986), 63-67 (1987) .
  14. ^ Front page of the Freiburger Zeitung from 27./28. February 1943
  15. ^ Joachim Röderer: Freiburg: On our own behalf: New BZ domicile is being built at Freiburg's Martinstor. Badische Zeitung, April 12, 2016, accessed on April 13, 2016 .
  16. ↑ bz: Freiburg: Medienhaus am Martinstor: The Freiburg BZ editorial offices have moved. Badische Zeitung, May 18, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2016 .
  17. ^ Ralf Ohlhoff: Digitization projects at the Freiburg University Library . In: EUCOR library information 18/19, 2001/02, p. 36.

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 37.9 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 57.3"  E