Hessian / Lower Saxony General
| Hessian / Lower Saxony General | |
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| description | regional daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Publishing house Dierichs GmbH & Co. KG |
| First edition | September 26, 1945 |
| Frequency of publication | daily Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 176,120 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat) | |
| Range | 0.565 million readers |
| ( MA 2019 ) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Andreas Lukesch |
| editor | Dirk Ippen |
| Web link | hna.de |
The Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine ( HNA ) is a daily newspaper for northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony that appears Monday to Saturday . The Dierichs publishing house publishes the HNA. The sold circulation is 176,120 copies, a decrease of 25.1 percent since 1998. The HNA was called Hessische Allgemeine until 1975 and was created in 1959 from the merger of the Hessische Nachrichten and the Kasseler Zeitung .
history
Hessian news
The Hessische Nachrichten appeared for the first time in Kassel on September 26, 1945 . The editors Wolfgang Bartels ( SPD ), Fritz Schmidt ( KPD ), August Heinrich Berning , Gustav Römer ( LDP-related ) and Wolfgang Poeschl ( CDU-related ) had received the license from the American military government to publish the third newspaper in Hesse (after the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Marburg press ). Due to a lack of paper, the newspaper initially only appeared on Wednesdays and Saturdays and cost 1.85 Reichsmarks a month . A city edition for Kassel and a state edition were published on November 7, 1945. This division was soon abandoned in favor of local editions. In the district of Hünfeld since January 23, 1946 published Werrabote and Hersfeld since March 23, 1946, the Hersfelder Rundschau . The paper allocation increased accordingly and the circulation rose to 90,000 copies in early February 1946. From April 1946 the newspaper appeared three days a week.
In the summer of 1946 the newspaper continued its expansion through local editions. On June 7, 1946, the Hersfelder Rundschau became the Fuldabote , which covered the districts of Hersfeld, Rotenburg and Melsungen . The Schwälmer Echo was the new local edition for the districts of Ziegenhain and Fritzlar-Homberg and the North Hessian mirror for the districts of Hofgeismar and Wolfhagen .
Since August 1, 1948, the newspaper has appeared four days a week, and since September 1, 1948, with a circulation of 130,000 copies, daily. The monthly costs amounted to 2.95 DM . In addition to the Kassel edition and the zone edition, there were six local editions: The Werrabote , the Fuldabote , the Ederbote , the North Hessian Mirror , the Schwälmer Echo and the Heimatecho .
Kassel newspaper
On November 29, 1946 , the second licensed newspaper in Kassel , the Kasseler Zeitung , appeared for the first time and competed with the Hessische Nachrichten . It initially appeared on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Another story
The Hessische Nachrichten was renamed the Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA) on January 2, 1974 . The reason was an increasing number of readers from the southern Lower Saxony area. When the SPD's own Hannoversche Presse was sold to the Madsack Group, the Hessische Allgemeine took over their Südhannoversche editions: In addition to the Göttinger Allgemeine (originally Göttinger Presse ), which was later discontinued, the Northeimer Neuesten Nachrichten (with the Sollinger Allgemeine ) and the Duderstädter came Südhannoversche Volkszeitung and the Mündener Nachrichten on the Dierichs publishing house. In order to broaden the editorial base, HNA delivered the shell part for the economically independent Harz courier of the expansive printing house Jungfer in Herzberg. After the reunification, the HNA tried to expand to Thuringia and founded the Mitteldeutsche Allgemeine with local editions in Eichsfeld, which were later sold to the Thuringian regional newspaper . As a result of numerous transactions, the headline Eichsfelder Tageblatt is duplicated in identical typography: as the head of the Göttinger Tageblatt for the old district of Duderstadt and as the head of the Thuringian newspaper for the neighboring district of Eichsfeld (Heiligenstadt). As a result of the takeover of the Braunschweiger Zeitung and the Harz Kurier by the WAZ media group , the newspaper, now based in Osterode, took over the cover section of the Braunschweiger Zeitung .
The HNA was closely connected to the Paul Dierichs Foundation founded in 1976 by the then editor and publisher Paul Dierichs (1901–1996) and named after him, which promoted social coexistence in the area where the newspaper was distributed. After the generation change in the management of the publishing house, Rainer Dierichs (1939–2007) also continued his father's foundation work until the foundation was dissolved in 2003 after the publishing house was sold. The foundation awarded a total of more than 300 citizen initiatives for their exemplary commitment with the Paul Dierichs Prize , which was accompanied by extensive reports by the HNA.
Sales and current development
In 2002 , the HNA was sold to the Munich- based Ippen Group (including publisher of Münchner Merkur ). The appearance of the newspaper has changed significantly since then. In this way, the local reporting is given considerably more space than before. In the politics department in particular, the HNA makes less use of agencies, but increasingly relies on its own background articles. In the summer of 2009, the HNA rearranged its leaf structure and moved the local section forward. The first two books fill the local area, followed by politics / economics, sports and television / culture.
The HNA has had an online edition since 1998. The HNA initiated a Regio-Wiki in Northern Hesse . The North Hessian news blog Kassel Live and Sieben also belongs to the online presence of the HNA. Seven is a magazine website that has a paywall . With this online magazine, the HNA was the first newspaper within the Ippen group to switch a paywall.
HNA has been running its own internet radio station since 2012, which was discontinued at the end of 2016.
In 2014, the HNA was Germany's most successful newspaper on YouTube with 11,721,637 views.
On February 26, 2015, the newspaper announced that a WhatsApp service will be offered from March 9, 2015 , in which registered users will be sent up to 5 messages a day with the latest events. Since December 2019, WhatsApp no longer allows bulk messages to be sent. Therefore, the HNA had to stop this service.
Edition
Like most German daily newspapers , the HNA has lost circulation in recent years . The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 1.3% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 3%. It is currently 176,120 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 88.2 percent.
Development of the number of copies sold
distribution
The HNA also serves the wider area around the city of Kassel, more precisely the districts of Kassel , Waldeck-Frankenberg , Schwalm-Eder , Werra-Meißner and Hersfeld-Rotenburg . In southern Lower Saxony, the HNA has editorial offices in Göttingen , Hann. Münden , Northeim and in Solling ( Uslar ). There are a total of 16 different local editions of the HNA, these range from Northeim in the north to Schwalmstadt in the south.
Culture
The HNA, together with the Kassel State Theater, has been organizing the HNA Summer Open Air every year since 2008 and operates sales points for tickets to various cultural events in the Kassel area, such as B. the culture tent .
criticism
In Northern Hesse, this newspaper has a quasi monopoly position , as there are no other regional daily newspapers. The Waldeckische Landeszeitung only appears in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In 2015, the Waldeckische Landeszeitung withdrew from the southern district due to a lack of circulation. This means that HNA has a monopoly here too.
In April 2006, the Alszus magazine, produced by the HNA and broadcast on the Kassel Open Channel, was criticized: The State Agency for Private Broadcasting initially saw it as an illegal advertising program for the newspaper itself. After the removal of the HNA logo from the program and the insurance company, the HNA editors would do Alszus exclusively in their free time, if further broadcasting was permitted.
The HNA also came under fire in October 2007 when it became known that the newspaper publisher wanted to break the collective bargaining agreement of the employers' association of Hessian newspaper publishers on January 1, 2008.
Web links
- Website of the HNA
- regiowiki.hna.de - a regional wiki operated by HNA
- Literature on Hessian / Lower Saxony general in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ Wolfgang Mentzel: The "Paul Dierichs Foundation" . In: Rolf Hauer (Ed.): Foundations from the past and present . Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 1982, ISBN 3-16-944484-0 , pp. 331-335.
- ↑ newsroom.de: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine : Most successful German newspaper on Youtube., Accessed on January 28, 2014
- ↑ Jessica Berger: New service from HNA: Messages via WhatsApp directly to the mobile phone. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine. February 26, 2015, accessed March 7, 2015 .
- ↑ HNA on WhatsApp is discontinued due to a change in the messenger service. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine. October 26, 2019, accessed April 1, 2020 .
- ↑ according to IVW ( online )
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
