General-Anzeiger (Wesel)

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The General-Anzeiger was a daily newspaper that was published in Wesel from 1880 to 1967 .

history

The General-Anzeiger is considered to be the successor newspaper to the “spokesman” initially published in Hamm , which was bought in 1841 by the Wesel publisher August Bagel. On January 18, 1880, the first edition of the newspaper published by Karl Voss appeared with a circulation of 5000 copies. It became one of the leading newspapers in the city of Wesel, alongside the Weseler Zeitung and the Weseler Volkszeitung , and was also widely distributed in the rest of the Rees district as well as in the Dinslaken district and in parts of the left Lower Rhine. The General-Anzeiger also served as an advertising paper for the Dinslaken district. The exact distribution area changed over time and the circulation grew to 11,000 copies.

The seizure of power by the National Socialists represented a turning point. It led the Müller family to sell the newspaper to Heinrich Peitsch on August 1, 1934, under strong political pressure. Even under his leadership, the newspaper came under pressure and was temporarily banned for a few days several times by the mayor Otto Borgers appointed by the National Socialists, and the wearing of the city arms was also prohibited. In 1943 the printing plant was shut down and the newspaper in its independent form was therefore suspended for the time being. As part of the Klever Zeitung Volksfreund , it could still be published until February 14, 1945. The Peitsch print shop on Hohen Strasse in Wesel was destroyed on February 16, 1945 during the course of the war.

After the end of the war, due to licensing regulations, a new edition was not legally possible, and after the destruction there was initially no print shop. It was not until September 1, 1952, that the newspaper became known as “General-Anzeiger für Wesel, Kreis Rees and the Lower Rhine. Independent local newspaper, Rees Public Gazette, Emmericher Tageblatt ”will appear again. It was the only one of all the Lower Rhine local newspapers that appeared again after the Nazi era and World War II. As a local newspaper, it also conveyed content from the region in the young Federal Republic of Germany, without a supraregional part such as the newly appeared rival papers Rheinische Post and Neue Rhein Zeitung . The print shop was initially located in a former stable building of the Reitzenstein barracks and from 1958 in the new publishing house on Luisenstrasse in Wesel. On July 31, 1964, the General-Anzeiger stopped publishing its last edition. The cause was, on the one hand, the strong competition from RP and NRZ and, according to the publisher, “a shortage of skilled workers”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Key date: September 1st, 1952 - General-Anzeiger reappeared after more than seven years , wesel.de. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d Wesel, your newspapers , rp-online.de. Retrieved May 24, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 17.6 "  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 21.8"  E