Danube Courier

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Danube Courier
Donaukurier.png
description German daily newspaper
publishing company Donaukurier Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
First edition December 11, 1945
Frequency of publication Mon-Sat
Sold edition 83,488 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Range 0.21 million readers
(MA 2006)
Editor-in-chief Stefan König (since March 2017)
Editor Simone Tucci-Diekmann
Web link donaukurier.de
ZDB 1477609-1

The Donaukurier is a German regional daily newspaper founded in 1945 and based in Ingolstadt . The previous paper , founded in 1872, had been owned by the Liebl / Reissmüller family since 1935 , who, along with Georg Schäff, were the publisher until December 31, 2016. Simone Tucci-Diekmann (Passauer Neue Presse) has been the publisher since January 1, 2017 . The sold circulation is 83,488 copies, a decrease of 2.5 percent since 1998.

history

Reissmüller's signature

The sheet received its approval by the US press officer David Davidson and appeared as a licensed newspaper for the first time on December 11, 1945. The license holder was initially Joseph Lackas, the brother of the publisher Matthias Lackas . According to the US military government, Lackas was close to the CSU, but without being a member. The Donaukurier seemed like almost all Bavarian license leaves initially only every other day and had a circulation of 1,948 copies 66,700.

When the license requirement ended in 1949, Wilhelm Reissmüller (son-in-law and former publishing director of the Danube messenger publisher Ludwig Liebl ) became co-editor, 1951 sole publisher of the Donaukurier , since that year the supraregional part of the Ingolstädter Donaukurier has also been delivered to the Aichacher Zeitung . After his death in 1993, his wife Elin Reissmüller took over the editing . From 2004 until her death in 2009, she shared it with her grandson Georg Schäff, who now exercises it alone.

The Donaukurier refers to the tradition of the 1872 and 1935 founded the Danube messengers bought up Catholic conservative Ingolstadt newspaper and now has a bourgeois-liberal orientation. So one protested in the issue of 3./4. November 2007 with a blackened front page against restrictions on fundamental rights and freedom of the press . Thanks to the government's mania for regulation, democracy is on the verge of dissolution at state, federal and European level. The campaign met with a predominantly positive response. On the global surveillance and espionage affair appeared on 29./30. June 2013 an “open letter” to the members of the Bundestag and Landtag, combined with an appeal to respect the right to privacy and data protection.

In November 2016 it was announced that the Donaukurier will be taken over by the Passauer Neue Presse with effect from January 1, 2017 .

Edition

In contrast to most German daily newspapers, the Donaukurier was able to maintain its circulation . The circulation sold has fallen by an average of 0.3% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 1.5%. It is currently 83,488 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 88.3 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

Group of companies

The Donaukurier building in Ingolstadt, in front of it the fountain sculpture created by the publisher Wilhelm Reissmüller

Initially, newspaper publishing, printing and from the Danube messenger acquired bookstore in Donaukurier publishing company, A. Ganghofer'sche bookstore and printing house Courier KG out, its shareholders were the spouses Reismüller. In 1973, a family-owned GmbH became the sole general partner, in 1975 the Süddeutsche Verlag took over 25% of the limited partner's shares, with the Reissmüller couple each holding 37.5%. In 1978 the company was changed to Donau Kurier Verlagsgesellschaft, A. Ganghofer'sche Buchhandlung and Courier Druckhaus GmbH & Co KG . After Wilhelm Reissmüller's death in 1994 almost 26% of his limited partner's shares went to his widow, the grandson Georg Schäff received almost 12%. In 2001 three areas were spun off from the parent company :

  • Donaukurier Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
  • Courier Druckhaus GmbH & Co KG
  • A. Ganghofer'sche Buchhandlung GmbH & Co. KG

Their limited partner shares were held by the parent company. In 2004, the widow and grandchildren transferred their shares in this to the Reissmüller Familienstiftung GmbH & Co. KG , of which they each held 50%. Shortly thereafter, Georg Schäff took over the 25% stake in Süddeutscher Verlag, but sold it back to Swiss GS Capital AG in 2005 . In 2006 the parent company changed its name to DK Holding GmbH & Co. KG . As early as 2002, the parent company had taken over all shares in the local book retail competitor Buchzentrum Schönhuber GmbH , in 2008 Hugendubel acquired a 50% stake and renamed Ganghofer GmbH . The previous A. Ganghofer'sche Buchhandlung GmbH & Co. KG itself was dissolved, including the main branch; its branches in Ingolstadt Westpark and in Neuburg an der Donau are continued by Ganghofer GmbH . In July 2011, Hugendubel took over all shares in it.

Michael Schäff, brother of the former DK publisher and junior boss of the beverage manufacturer Schäff , had taken over the majority stake in Ingolstadt regional broadcaster intv in recent years , in which the Donaukurier is also involved.

expenditure

pressure

The Donaukurier appears in seven print editions with different local sections:

Name of the local edition Distribution area
Aichacher newspaper northeastern district of Aichach-Friedberg , Aichach
Eichstätter courier north-western district of Eichstätt , Eichstätt
Donaukurier issue A Ingolstadt , nearer area of Ingolstadt , Vohburg , Neuburg an der Donau
Donaukurier issue B northeastern district of Eichstätt , Beilngries , Riedenburg
Hilpoltstein Courier southern district of Roth , Hilpoltstein , Greding
Pfaffenhofen courier middle district Pfaffenhofen , Pfaffenhofen , southwestern district Neuburg-Schrobenhausen
Schrobenhausener Zeitung Schrobenhausen , Hallertau , also the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen

While the network of local editorial offices was being consolidated in recent years (Kösching and Manching offices were added), the editorial office in the nearby state capital of Munich was closed. The local editor Jürgen Fischer had split up after the Bundestag election campaign in 2009, after he had reported too uncritically about Horst Seehofer's politics as a personal confidante . Offices in Kösching and Manching were opened and closed again a few years later , the office in Vohburg continues to exist (2017).

Digital

The Donaukurier has been online since 2001 with an Internet edition at the address www.donaukurier.de . The current website has existed since 2017. In April 2014, a tablet web app and a smartphone web app went online. In the summer of 2016, after several months of trial operation, the “DK-mobil” app went into regular operation. The Donaukurier is also represented on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram .

Former Employees

Editors-in-chief

  • Carl Puetzfeld (December 1945 to September 1946)
  • Joseph Lackas (until April 1951)
  • Norbert Mayer (until October 1967)
  • Karl Ernst Roessler (until February 1985)
  • Erhard Heinzmann (until December 1992)
  • Friedrich Kraft (1993 to 2003)
  • Michael Schoepperl (2004)
  • Michael Schmatloch (2004 to 2011)
  • Gerd Schneider (February 2011 to September 2014)
  • Claus Liesegang (August 2015 to December 2016)
  • Stefan König (since March 2017)

Other

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Horst Richter: Stefan König is the new editor-in-chief of Donaukurier. In: donaukurier.de. March 17, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017 .
  2. according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
  3. a b c Office of the Military Government for Germany (US) (ed.): The German Press in the US occupied Area 1945-1948. Special Report to the Military Governor, November 1948, prepared by Information Services Division. Original document on the pages of the History Collection of the University of Wisconsin – Madison , p. 10
  4. Blackened front page of the regional edition Eichstätter Courier ( Memento of 1 February 2012 at the Internet Archive ). 3rd / 4th November 2007
  5. Massive encroachment on the basic rights of citizens. In: Donaukurier. November 2, 2007
  6. “Such a sign was overdue.” In: Donaukurier. November 4, 2007 (mostly positive feedback from readers)
  7. Open letter. In: Website of the Donaukurier , June 2013 (PDF; 108 kB)
  8. ^ "Passauer Neue Presse" takes over the "Donaukurier". In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . 22nd November 2016
  9. according to IVW ( online )
  10. according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  11. according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
  12. a b c d e f g h i j Commercial Register of the District Court of Ingolstadt, sheet HRA 1
  13. a b Commercial Register of the District Court of Ingolstadt, sheet HRA 1402
  14. a b Commercial Register of Ingolstadt Local Court, sheet HRA 1403
  15. a b c Commercial Register of the Ingolstadt District Court, sheet HRA 1401
  16. ^ Commercial register of the district court of Ingolstadt, sheet HRA 1586
  17. ^ Commercial register of the district court of Ingolstadt, sheet HRB 1588 and associated lists of shareholders from 2002
  18. ^ Commercial register of the district court of Ingolstadt, list of shareholders on sheet HRB 1588 of August 19, 2011
  19. ^ Peter Fahrenholz: CSU spokesman Jürgen Fischer. His master's voice. In: Süddeutsche.de . 4th November 2012
  20. New design for donaukurier.de - DONAUKURIER website can be used on all devices in future . In: donaukurier.de . ( donaukurier.de [accessed on September 11, 2018]).
  21. a b Michael Schmatloch editor of "Donaukurier".  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV), October 1, 2004 (media release)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bdzv.de  
  22. Gerd Schneider replaces Michael Schmatloch. Kress Media Service, February 25, 2011
  23. Donaukurier publisher Schäff separates from editor-in-chief Gerd Schneider. In: Meedia . September 25, 2014
  24. Bülend Ürük: After less than twelve months: “Donaukurier” publisher Georg Schäff separates from editor-in-chief Claus Liesegang. Kress Mediendienst, June 20, 2016, accessed July 10, 2017 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 26.9 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 55.8"  E