General-Anzeiger Wuppertal
The General-Anzeiger Wuppertal was founded in 1887 as a General-Anzeiger for Elberfeld-Barmen . The first edition appeared on October 1, 1887. The founder was the Kommerzienrat Wilhelm Girardet . The new newspaper developed rapidly and within a few years became a large and important publication. Editing , ad acceptance and printing of the 40,000-copy edition of the largest newspaper between the Rhine and Ruhr are located in Elberfeld .
On April 14, 1945, two days before the US troops marched into Wuppertal, the last edition of General-Anzeiger Wuppertal appeared for the time being . After that, the publication of German daily newspapers was banned.
After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany , a new press law restored freedom of the press in Germany in 1949 . That is why the General-Anzeiger came out again on October 1st . With the Solinger Tageblatt and the Remscheider General-Anzeiger , the Wuppertal General-Anzeiger founded an editorial community for the regional section of the three newspapers. All three were printed in Wuppertal . The GA soon resumed its position as the largest daily newspaper in Wuppertal and the Bergisches Land .
In January 1964 the new press house on Otto-Hausmann-Ring was completed. In 1971 the GA was switched from a midday to a morning newspaper.
In 1973 the General-Anzeiger was merged with the newspapers of the W. Girardet publishing house in Düsseldorf and Krefeld and has since appeared under the common title Westdeutsche Zeitung .