Hersfeld Newspaper

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Hersfeld Newspaper

description German daily newspaper
publishing company Hoehl-Druck GmbH + Co
First edition March 2, 1763
Frequency of publication daily / saturday
Sold edition 11,884 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Kai A. Struthoff
executive Director Markus Pfromm
Web link www.hersfelder-zeitung.de

The Hersfelder Zeitung (HZ) is a daily newspaper that appears in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district . It is one of the 18 oldest newspapers in the world. It has a sold circulation of 11,884 copies.

The newspaper is being printed today by the publisher of the Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , the publishing house Dierichs GmbH & Co KG in Kassel . National content comes from the HNA editorial team in Kassel. Since the publishing house Dierichs GmbH & Co KG was taken over by Dirk Ippen in 2002 , the newspaper contents have come from his publishing group. Only the editorial department for regional topics is still in Bad Hersfeld.

In a collective bargaining association, we now cooperate with the HNA in Kassel, the Central German Press in Fulda and the Thuringian Press in Suhl .

history

In 1752 Georg Christoph Mohr came from Tübingen to Hersfeld . He bought the Pfingstsche Buchhandlung and the associated printing house for 450 thalers . He was the first Hessian book printer to publish publishing and product range catalogs. His printing house had 75 quintals of printing types (German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew).

Mohr founded the intelligence and newspaper of Hesse with the Metropolitan (pastor) Jakob Maximilian Stirn , which appeared for the first time on March 2, 1763. There were two editions a week. The sheet cost half a thaler a quarter. It contained sales notices, lease notices, vacancies, notices, and market reports. The smaller part comprised news and reports on inventions. There were hardly any reports of local events. Because the paper made no profits and Mohr had used up his savings, the paper with the number 81, on December 25, 1763, was the last edition for the time being. His son Johann Daniel Mohr published the paper from 1802 to 1805, and while Hersfeld belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia , it is said to have appeared as an intelligence paper for the Hersfeld district . But no more specimens have been found.

Johann Daniel Mohr sold the entire business to August Rullmann, who in turn sold it to Wilhelm Ludwig Happich in 1818. The Hersfeld intelligence sheet was reissued by him in 1822. Happich died in 1839 and his widow Elisabeth continued to run the company until 1850. For a short time she introduced a newspaper supplement "Der Gesellschafter". According to the Fulda government decree, the supplement was only allowed to contain “instructive and educational entertainment”.

In 1850 her son Ludwig Happich took over the printing company and the newspaper. Despite the eventful times of 1864 , 1866 and 1870/71 , the coverage of political topics was limited to a small part of the newspaper. Ludwig Happich died in 1874, and his wife Sophie continued the business for two years. During this time the newspaper had a circulation of 380 copies.

From 1837 onwards, the Schustersche Buchdruckerei published the second newspaper in the city, the Hessenbote.

Eduard Hoehl, who received his training at the Maierschen Buchhandlung in Fulda, bought the Schustersche Buchhandlung and the book printer with the Hessenbote in 1866. In 1876 he acquired the Happich bookstore and the printing works with the intelligence sheet. After a short time, in 1886, he sold the bookstore, which is still called Hoehlsche Buchhandlung today, and concentrated only on printing the newspaper. The print shop still bears his name today. In 1876 the first high-speed press with gas engine drive and in 1896 a second high-speed press was in operation. In 1885 the newspaper was made more extensive and it was renamed the Hersfelder Zeitung . From 1900 the Hersfelder Zeitung appeared daily. The number of subscribers increased from 318 in 1876, 2500 in 1901 and 5300 in 1906.

In 1906 the newspaper and the printer were sold to Wilhelm Bachstädt. He equipped the print shop with a rotary press and two typograph typesetting machines . From 1909 there was the supplement “Mein Heimatland”, which was founded by Wilhelm Neuhaus. Karl Bachstädt took over the business from his father in 1914. The circulation at that time was 7,000 copies. Karl died in World War I , and his wife Anne and father continued to run the newspaper publisher. In 1920 Anne Bachstädt married Hans Ott, who took over the management. The print shop received a new rotary press and four Linotype typesetting machines . In addition to the newspaper publisher, he founded the Hans Ott publishing house. He brought out the Sauer-Stein textbooks for shorthand and machine writing. The publisher's focus was on home literature ; this has not changed until today.

When Hans Ott died in 1934, Anne Ott led the company through the difficult war and post-war period. As a privately owned newspaper, the newspaper was closely monitored and the NSDAP attempted to gain control of the newspaper, sometimes using defamatory and extortionate methods. Despite these conditions, a reproduction department was set up during the war in order to be able to print newspaper pictures. The circulation during the war was 12,500 copies. On Maundy Thursday 1945, the day before US troops marched in, the newspaper appeared again under the most difficult conditions.

Until the end of the compulsory licensing in July 1949, the publisher did not receive a license to print the Hersfelder Zeitung from the Allies. During this time, several soldiers' newspapers, brochures and other printed matter were printed for the Allies. During the time when there was no daily newspaper, the Military Government Gazette was printed on behalf of the district administrator . It was a sheet of mostly official announcements. Later the newspapers came from Kassel and Fulda, where new publishers licensed by the Allies had emerged.

With the introduction of freedom of the press in the Federal Republic of Germany in July 1949, the Hersfelder Zeitung also revived. The first edition after the war appeared on August 1, 1949. The owner's son, Hans Joachim Ott, who returned from an English captivity, joined the company in 1951. At the 200th anniversary of the newspaper in 1952, there were six typesetting machines and a two-color rotary press.

In 1977 the company switched from lead typesetting to photo typesetting, and in 1992 the company moved to the media house that had been established on Gutenbergstrasse. In 2013 the Hersfelder Zeitung celebrated its 250th anniversary. On January 6, 2014, the company moved to the new publishing building directly on Schilde-Platz.

New construction of the Hersfelder Zeitung publishing house, January 2014

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  1. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )