Hartung Newspaper

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Hartung's newspaper house was the former Löbenicht town hall
Hartung's newspaper house at Münchenhof
Share over 100 RM in the Königsberger Hartungsche Zeitung and publishing printing company from January 1, 1928

The Hartungsche Zeitung was a newspaper in Konigsberg (Prussia) . It appeared up to three times a day and was one of the oldest German print media.

history

In 1640 the printer Joh. Reussner founded the Hof- und Akadem. Book printing . In 1660 he was given the privilege of printing a newspaper on his own. From 1709 to 1740 it was called the Royal Prussian Fama , then the Königsbergsche Zeitung . After it passed into the possession of the printer Johann Heinrich Hartung as an intelligence paper in 1742, in 1752 it was renamed the Royal Privileged Prussian State, War and Peace Newspaper . The title was withdrawn from her in 1850 by order of the Crown Prussia . Then it took the name Hartungsche Zeitung . In 1807 Johann Gottlieb Fichte worked there as a censor until he was dismissed by order of the Prussian general Ernst von Rüchel . In 1872 the great-grandson of the company founder sold his shares and converted the publishing house and printing company into a stock corporation which, in addition to the Hartungsche Zeitung, also published the Königsberger Tageblatt in 1897 . When it was founded, the company acquired the printing, newspaper and publishing business with the Königsberg properties at Münchenhofgasse 2, Löben, Langgasse 19 and Münchenhofplatz 4/5, along with all accessories from Hermann Hartung. In 1905/06, due to a lack of space, the new building at Münchenhofplatz 45 was built, in which the entire technical operation was housed in 1932. In 1930 a new 64-page rotary press was put into operation and a chemical-graphic department was also incorporated. The liberal paper was respected throughout Germany. Thomas Mann writes about the newspaper in the Buddenbrooks :

"She does not treat the government very lightly, with the nobles, with priests and junkers, she knows all too skillfully to fool the censorship."

Editor-in-chief was for a time Ludwig Goldstein , who was withdrawn from all journalistic assignments by the newspaper during the seizure of power in March 1933.

Notable music critics were Louis Köhler , Otto Besch , Gustav Dömpke and Erwin Kroll . The National Socialists “naturally” disliked the publication of the last issue of the newspaper on December 31, 1933.

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  • Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia . Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
  • Kurt Forstreuter : The end of the Königsberger Hartungschen newspaper . Wuerzburg 1968.
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
  • Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Between Memel and fresh lagoon . Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .
  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum Druck, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .