Het Vaderland

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Het Vaderland ( German  Das Vaterland ) was a Dutch regional newspaper from 1869 to 1982 with an editorial office in The Hague . The edition was rather small, but Vaderland had a high reputation and produced important journalists. One of the editors-in-chief, Hendrik Goeman Borgesius , later became Dutch interior minister.

history

End (1982)

The Vaderland was founded as a liberal counterpart to the conservative Dagblad van Zuid Holland , the first edition appeared on April 12, 1869. In 1876 it was the first Dutch newspaper to introduce a feature section as a permanent section. The circulation remained low in the following period (a value of 2,500 copies was reached in 1882), but the newspaper was able to develop into a prestigious paper. In particular, it not only pioneered the creation of a feature pages, but also employed important editors such as Pierre H. Dubois and Menno ter Braak throughout his time there . Since 1906 a morning edition has been published in addition to an evening edition.

In 1924, Henricus Nijgh , publisher of the politically like-minded Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant , acquired a majority stake in Vaderland , after having already taken over the Nieuwe Courant , also based in The Hague , in 1922 , which was finally dissolved in Vaderland in 1936 . On the eve of World War II , the newspaper had 11,000 subscribers. During the subsequent German occupation of the Netherlands, the paper, like all other Dutch newspapers, had to submit to ever greater influence. Since the newspaper was still published after 1942, it was banned from publication after the war. The Vaderland then took on the title of its former sister, Nieuwe Courant , who had merged into her , until it was able to reappear under its old title in early 1951.

During the Holland storm flood of 1953 , the newspaper stepped out of its rather limited circulation and published a special edition in six languages ​​with a circulation of 500,000 copies. Their closeness to liberalism , even after the war, was particularly evident in a disclosure by Vrij Nederland editor Joop van Tijn in 1970 , from which it emerged that Vaderland and its sister newspapers Algemeen Handelsblad and Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant lasted nine days in the 1967 elections had printed full-page advertisements from the right-wing liberal VVD free of charge .

In 1972, Vaderland's autonomy in terms of content largely ended when it became the head newspaper of the national Algemeen Dagblad . On August 14, 1982 the newspaper was completely discontinued.

literature

  • Piet Hagen: Journalists in Nederland. Een Persgeschiedenis in portraits. Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam u. Antwerp 2002, ISBN 90-295-2222-4 (Dutch)
  • Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers. Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005, ISBN 90-75727-77-1 . (Dutch; earlier edition: Jan van de Plasse, Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagbladpers , Cramwinckel, Amsterdam 1999, ISBN 90-75727-25-9 )
  • René Vos: Niet voor publicatie: De legale Nederlandse pers tijdens de Duitse bezetting , Sijthoff, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-218-3752-8 (Dutch, with a German summary)
  • Huub Wijfjes: Journalistiek in Nederland 1850–2000. Beroep, cultuur en organisatie . Boom, Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 90-5352-949-7 (Dutch)

Web links

Commons : Het Vaderland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hagen, p. 30
  2. ↑ Plasse, p. 27
  3. ↑ Plasse, p. 29
  4. ↑ Plasse, p. 192
  5. ↑ Wijfjes, p. 423
  6. ↑ Plasse, p. 44
  7. ↑ Vos, p. 26
  8. ↑ Plasse, p. 62
  9. ↑ Vos, p. 24
  10. ↑ Plasse, p. 88
  11. ↑ Plasse, p. 89
  12. ↑ Plasse, p. 102
  13. ↑ Plasse, p. 105
  14. ↑ Plasse, p. 109

See also