Grünberger Wochenblatt
The Grünberger Wochenblatt was a newspaper that appeared in Grünberg in Silesia from 1825 to 1944 . It went from being a weekly to a daily newspaper during its publication period .
History of the weekly newspaper
1825-1839
The printer August Krieg began on July 2, 1825 with the publication of the weekly newspaper , which from then on appeared every Saturday . The quarterly prenumeration price was 12 silver groschen . The newspaper was also delivered to subscribers' homes on request. The number of copies from the early days of the paper is not known, but the city had around 8,800 inhabitants at that time.
The Grünberger Wochenblatt usually had eight pages and contained a mixture of entertainment (including stories, travelogues, ethnological texts, poems, puzzles) and news. The news published included official announcements concerning the city, private advertisements and also the Grünberg market prices. In addition, there was the church news, in which the births, marriages and deaths from the city of Grünberg and the surrounding villages were recorded. This fact makes the Grünberger Wochenblatt interesting for family history research even today. However, current topics throughout Germany were initially not dealt with in the paper.
From the edition of June 18, 1836 MW Siebert was the editor who took over the management of the book printing and publishing house of the August Krieg weekly newspaper. The sheet has since been sold in Deutsch-Wartenberg , Neusalz , Lüben and Beuthen . From then on, the news section was given the heading Intelligence Gazette, as was common in the press at the time.
1839–1871: Under the aegis of Wilhelm Levysohn
From 1839 Wilhelm Levysohn acted as the editor who made the newspaper more politicized. From April 1840, the weekly newspaper (temporarily) appeared on Fridays. In 1842, a second newspaper was launched in Grünberg, the “Grünberger Kreis- und Intellektivenblatt”. It can be proven at least until 1873.
1871 to the First World War
After Levysohn's death, his son Ulrich took over the management of the weekly newspaper. The weekly paper was later published three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
1919-1933
In the twenties, sports coverage also found its way into the newspaper to a greater extent. The weekly was now published daily. At the beginning of July 1925, the centenary of the Grünberger Wochenblatt was celebrated with an extensive anniversary edition. This includes u. a. Congratulations from the then Chancellor Hans Luther , the Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann and the Prussian Prime Minister Otto Braun as well as from the editorial offices of other newspapers such as the Sprottauer Wochenblatt . Another hundred years, as many have wished, were not granted to the newspaper.
Time of National Socialism and the end
Like all other newspapers in the German Reich , the Grünberger Wochenblatt was captured by the National Socialists after 1933, and its subtitle was called "Official NSDAP News Gazette". It was finally discontinued in 1944 as a result of the Second World War .
Grünberger Wochenblatt today
Even today there is a Grünberger weekly newspaper . With its name it is deliberately based on the tradition of the antiquarian newspaper and, according to the subtitle, sees itself as a “newsletter for the former residents of the city and the district of Grünberg in Silesia”. The magazine appears monthly.
Web links
- [1] : The digitized volumes of the Grünberger Wochenblatt can be viewed on this page.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Clauß (Ed.): Stadt und Landkreis Grünberg in Schlesien - Edited according to August Förster history from the villages of the Grünberger Kreis and other publications , Keppler Verlag, 1971.