Free press (Bielefeld)

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The Free Press was a regional daily newspaper for Westphalia from Bielefeld .

It emerged from the newspaper Volkswacht , which was founded in Bielefeld in 1890 by the social democratic labor movement and for which Ernst Reuter also wrote. In the spring of 1933 the people's watch was banned. Emil Groß , the editor-in-chief at the time, went into exile in Amsterdam and published the weekly newspaper Freie Presse during the Nazi era .

After the war, Emil Groß received a license to publish the Free Press from the British occupation . On April 3, 1946, the Free Press appeared again for the first time with Carl Severing as editor-in-chief. The newspaper had a circulation of over 90,000 copies in the 1950s. This was significantly more than the competition from the Westfälische Zeitung and the Westfalen-Blatt . In 1967 it merged with the Westfälische Zeitung to form the Neue Westfälische .

In the Free Press in the 1950s and 1960s, the later director of the completed West German Radio Friedrich Nowottny and Fritz Pleitgen her journalism - voluntary . In addition, the later ARD correspondent and WDR television director Harald Brand volunteered at the Freie Presse, as did the ZDF television journalist and co-founder of the international journal Uwe Kröger . The later NDR editor-in-chief and program director Jürgen Kellermeier was the political editor of the Free Press.

Individual evidence

  1. Der Spiegel 4/1957

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Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 51.6 ″  E