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Freie deutsche Blätter (also known as Freie-deutsche Blätter ) was a reform Catholic magazine in the German Empire , which was initially published in Augsburg from March 1901 to March 1902.

They repeatedly changed the name: From April 1902 to December 1908 it was called The Twentieth Century (until 1906 with the subtitle weekly for politics, science and art , from 1907 organ for progressive Catholicism ), from January 1909 to December 1914 , the new century to from January 1915 to December 1916 to appear again as Freie Deutsche Blätter .

It appeared in Augsburg and Munich as an organ of reform Catholics and modernists . The leading editors were Johannes Bumüller , Franz Klasen , Thaddäus Engert and Philipp Funk .

In the 6th year of 1906 and in the 7th year of 1907, "The Twentieth Century" made a number of articles about the controversy between Herman Schell and Ernst Commer and about other attempts by the Catholic hierarchy to suppress the so-called modernists.

literature

• Jörg Haustein : Liberal-Catholic journalism in the late empire. "The New Century" and the Krausgesellschaft , Göttingen 2001.