General-Anzeiger for Dortmund

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The General-Anzeiger for Dortmund , often referred to as the “Dortmunder General-Anzeiger”, was the largest German daily newspaper outside of Berlin before the Second World War .

The newspaper had different titles, such as “General-Anzeiger for Dortmund and the Province of Westphalia” (until November 27, 1926), then “Generalanzeiger for Dortmund and the entire Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area”.

history

The newspaper, founded by the editor Karl “Karlchen” Richter and the publisher Friedrich Wilhelm Ruhfus in 1890 initially as “Dortmunder Nachrichten, an independent organ for everyone”, was considered to be left-wing liberal. The newspaper was published from 1906 by the Dortmund publishing family Krüger, who had already gained journalistic experience with the “Dortmunder Wochenblatt” (1828), “Dortmunder Anzeiger” (1847) and the satirical newspaper “ Kladderadatsch ”. The Krüger family ran a traditional bookstore in downtown Dortmund until 2006 , which was continued by the Mayersche bookstore until it closed on January 24, 2009.

One of the most famous German press illustrators of the Weimar Republic Emil Stumpp and the writers Theodor Lessing , Erik Reger and Paul Polte alias Peter Polter worked for the Dortmunder General-Anzeiger .

The paper was a thorn in the side of the National Socialists for years before Hitler came to power in 1933. In 1926, the later Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels defamed the newspaper as "a trash, a junk, a spiritual diet that [...] works like an emetic". [...] "In this the Jew fabricates the public opinion, [...] the opinion of the stupid, lazy, lukewarm and figs."

After the seizure of power by the Nazis Dortmund General-Anzeiger published on 20 April ( " Leader Birthday ") on the cover of a Hitler - Caricature of Emil Stumpp. The publisher was immediately confiscated and all of its business assets were confiscated by the NSDAP . The newspaper was then continued as the party newspaper " Westfälische Landeszeitung - Rote Erde " for the Gau Westfalen-Süd .

The Westfälische Rundschau , which appeared from 1946 with the subtitle Dortmunder General-Anzeiger until 2014, saw itself as the successor newspaper.

literature

  • Kurt Koszyk: Jakob Stöcker and the Dortmunder General-Anzeiger 1929–1933.
  • Horst Mönnich : A Dortmund agent - the man who was called Karlchen Richter; his records / brought back to the day , Düsseldorf: Rau, 1974, ISBN 3-7919-0157-5

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Goebbels: The second revolution. Letters to contemporaries. Streiter, Zwickau 1926, p. 33 f.