Liberal newspaper
The Freisinnige Zeitung was a left-liberal political newspaper founded by Eugen Richter in 1885 . From March 15, 1904 to June 30, 1906, she took the title Free German Press, Free Newspaper (Hempel, Berlin).
history
It appeared every weekday evening in Berlin and was distributed throughout Germany. The newspaper was 47 × 31.5 cm in size with three columns per page. In addition to the news section, the newspaper regularly included a feature section and advertising. At the beginning, she represented the interests of the German Liberal Party . After the split it became the main organ of the Free People's Party .
The newspaper had its own parliamentary office, whose “reports were also subscribed to by many other papers”. Emil Walter was editor-in-chief of the newspaper from 1885 to 1892, the responsible editors were Emil Barth, Moritz Grunwald and Alexander Giesen, who later worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung . The choice of topics and comments were largely determined by Eugen Richter, Ludolf Parisius and Fritz Schneider. Eugen Richter’s great influence on the newspaper met with criticism from within the party at an early stage, without this having changed anything. The official owner was the Progress Corporation. In addition to Richter himself, it was financed by a number of entrepreneurs and various donations. The paper often struggled financially as ads were difficult to sell. In 1904 the Deutsche Presse GmbH took over the paper. This company was officially affiliated with the party.
The print run in 1893 was between 7,000 and “no more than 10,000 copies”.
In 1918 the newspaper was finally discontinued.
Quote
“Even more incomparably more than the guild, the mirror image of Guido Weiß , was Eugen Richter's free-minded newspaper, only that it lacked the fine literary polish, the satirical grace that so highly distinguished it. (...) Eugen Richter's imperious nature drove ruthlessly, so as not to use any other expression. How he dealt with an employee who was sometimes somewhat uncomfortable as a result of his independence, his behavior towards Paul Schlenther provides evidence of how it could not be conceived and produced more strikingly. The young, fiery, knowledgeable and talented writer (...) probably spilled it one day with the all-powerful. Then he sent him the resignation on an open postcard! How would the freedom leaseholder Eugen Richter in the Prussian House of Representatives have blown the Minister of the Interior if a district administrator had been guilty of such gross impropriety against a district official. "
Prints
- Liberal newspaper . Progress, Berlin 1885–1918. (Date of publication: September 1, 1885 to 1901 and 1902 to March 14, 1904 and July 1, 1906 to December 29, 1918). Ed .: Eugen Richter (until 1906); responsible editors: Emil Barth , Alexander Giesen.
- October 18th. Memorial book to Kaiser Friedrich . Liberal newspaper, Berlin 1888
- Free spirit booklet . Liberal newspaper, Berlin 1898
- Anniversary supplement. September 1, 1885-1910 . Berlin 1910
literature
- Wolther von Kieseritzky: Liberal party elites and political control of the public in the empire. The networking of party and press. In: Dieter Dowe u. a .: Parties in transition. From the Empire to the Weimar Republic. Munich 1999, p. 102 f.
Web links
- Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 7. Leipzig 1907, p. 77. Digitized
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph Kürschner: Handbook of the press . Berlin / Eisenach / Leipzig: Hermann Hillger Verlag, 1902, Sp. 400.
- ↑ Wolther von Kieseritzky: Liberal party elites ... , p. 103.
- ^ Ina Susanne Lorenz: Eugen Richter, Husum 1981, p. 193.
- ^ Ernst Müller-Meiningen : Parliamentarism. Reflections, lessons and memories from German parliaments . de Gruyter, Berlin 1926, p. 151.