Border messenger

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The Grenzbote was from 1933 to 1943 a Swiss newspaper in Stein am Rhein ( Canton Schaffhausen ), which propagated a “new Europe” in the service of the frontist renewal movement .

The local newspaper was published since January 1869 under the name Der Grenzbote in Stein am Rhein ; from 1908 under the name Steiner Grenzbote . At first it was close to the farmers, trade and citizens' party , but from April 1933 placed itself entirely at the service of the New Front Schaffhausen and later its successor organizations, the National Front and National Community of Schaffhausen . A first programmatic article appeared on April 8, 1933, and the paper was subsequently a central component of the (Schaffhauser) front movement.

In January 1934 - with a print run of around 2,350 copies - the name was changed to Grenzbote , which then appeared as a daily newspaper from March 1934 under the editorship of Hermann Eisenhut and Hans Kläui . From autumn 1935 the border messenger in Schaffhausen was printed in the Haus zur Freudenfels and finally adopted by the National Front on a cooperative basis (cross-subsidies, donors' contributions). Articles were also regularly taken from German newspapers. Since spring 1937 there has been close cooperation with the newspaper Die Front , which was editorially supervised by Werner Meyer, Eduard Rüegsegger and Hermann Eisenhut. Again and again there were defamation trials because of the editors' aggressive spelling. The two newspapers were also exported to National Socialist Germany.

From January 1940 on, Grenzbote and Die Front only appeared on a weekly basis due to the sharp decline in subscribers and financial problems. This was followed in March 1940 by the first public warning by the Department for Press and Radio Messages (APF) , the responsible censorship authority, in February 1941 a first publication ban (for three months) and a second in May 1942 (for four months).

On July 6, 1943, Grenzbote and Die Front were finally dissolved - at the same time as the Federal Collection and the National Community of Schaffhausen were dissolved. On October 7, 1943, the FDJP also liquidated the corresponding sponsorships as well as the affiliated publishing house and the Freudenfels printing company .

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  • Eric Honegger: Bourgeois and frontist press on the Swiss-German press policy in the run-up to the Second World War . Investigated using the example of the "Schaffhauser Intellektivenblatt" and the "Grenzbote". Zurich, 1976.
  • Matthias Wipf: The "Grenzbote" in World War II - a frontist newspaper 1933-1943 . Manuscript (106 pages), Institute for Media Studies, University of Bern, Bern 1999 (location: Schaffhausen City Archives).
  • Matthias Wipf: “Grenzbote” and “Front” - right-wing extremist Swiss newspapers during the Second World War . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Issue 119/2001, pp. 271–301.
  • Matthias Wipf: The "Grenzbote" - a frontist newspaper in the Second World War . In: MC Neininger / W. Schreiber, stories about history , Meier-Verlag, Schaffhausen 1999, pp. 132–140.