Hanoverian press

The Hannoversche Presse (hp) was a daily newspaper published in Hanover from 1946 to 1971 . She was the successor to the Socialist people's will , but should "[...] not have the character of a pronounced association sheet have, but primarily modern newsletter with social democratic its trend." The paper later merged to New Hanover Press and was the forerunner of the Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack published Neue Presse .

history

From 1945

Only a few weeks after the Second World War and the time of National Socialism , in the course of the Gleichschaltung on 7/8. April 1945 the only remaining daily newspaper in Hanover was published, the Nazi publication Hannoversche Zeitung , from May 29, 1945 the Neue Hannoversche Kurier (NHK) was published with the subtitle "News Gazette of the Allied Military Government". Chief Editor was known as resisters from the penitentiary laid-off Social Democrat Walter Spengemann , who already in the late 1920s as an editor at the popular will had worked.

Also in 1945 put Kurt Schumacher , who on April 19 of the year by his office Schumacher from the local branch of the then still illegal re-founded the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) as the Board initiated in early September 1945 when British military authorities the application for approval of the planned newspaper under the name “Volkswille - the newspaper of all creative people”. Success: The application was - rejected.

The courier house at Georgstrasse 52 was the hp's publishing house from 1956;
Photo from spring 2013 behind plane trees that are not yet leafy

Until the following year in 1946 and - after the NHK, the "Newsletter of the Allied Military Government", on 16 July of the year their appearance was set - with the license payers of Fritz Heine , Egon Franke and Walter Spengemann and under the new newspaper titles Hannoversche press was on July 18, 1946 the license to print the hp was granted. The first edition was produced on the same day in the Kurierhaus on Georgstrasse and appeared as the first edition on the following day.

The publisher of hp was the social democrat Gustav Schmidt-Küster from Magdeburg , who then published hp until 1971. The first editors-in-chief from 1946 were Spengemann, who had previously worked as editor-in-chief at the discontinued NHK, who then took over the chief editor at hp together with Wilhelm Korspeter .

The distribution area of the Hannoversche Presse, which initially appeared in a circulation of 332,250 copies, initially comprised 21 districts , later 34. In January 1947 the newspaper reached its historic high with a circulation of 379,000 copies.

On April 30, 1948, Walter Spengemann resigned from the editorial office of the Hanover Press, having previously received his own license for the non-partisan Norddeutsche Zeitung .

After the currency reform and the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany , the general license requirement for newspapers was lifted in autumn 1949. As a result, the hp editorial team was faced with growing competition from new competitors. From September 1st of the same year hp was published daily, but lost more and more customers to other newspapers. As early as 1955, hp's print run was only 132,000.

The former publishing house of the NHP (today: ver.di-Höfe ) at the Goseriede and the old St. Nikolai cemetery ; in the background the VW Tower and the Lister Tor skyscraper

In 1957, the Hanover Press moved from the Kurierhaus in Georgstrasse to the publishing house on Goseriede .

1971: Merger with the Hannoversche Rundschau

In 1971 the Hannoversche Presse merged with the Hannoversche Rundschau ; as a result, the joint paper appeared from April 22, 1971 as Neue Hannoversche Presse (NHP). Due to the high losses - and thus the need for a subsidy from the SPD - the SPD separated from the NHP in 1972, thus enabling the newspaper to transfer to the Madsack publishing company.

literature

Elke Schröder: The changing party press. The Hannoversche Presse from 1946 to 1958 (= Hannoversche Schriften zur Regional- und Lokalgeschichte , Vol. 9), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1996, ISBN 3-89534-171-1

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Klaus Mlynek : Hannoversche Presse (hp). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 262.
^ Klaus Mlynek: Hannoversche Zeitung, 2. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 263
^ Klaus Mlynek: New Hannoverscher Courier. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 465
↑ ^a ^b Hugo Thielen : Spengemann, (2) Walter. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 340.
^ Klaus Mlynek: Schumacher, Kurt. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 326f.

[SLH-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Klaus Mlynek : Hannoversche Presse (hp). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 262.

[2] Klaus Mlynek: Hannoversche Zeitung, 2. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 263

[3] Klaus Mlynek: New Hannoverscher Courier. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 465

[HBL_Walter_Spengemann-4] Hugo Thielen : Spengemann, (2) Walter. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 340.

[5] Klaus Mlynek: Schumacher, Kurt. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 326f.