Hochwacht (Winterthur)

Title page of Hochwacht as the head page of the NZN in 1988

The Hochwacht was a Christian Social Catholic daily newspaper from the city of Winterthur founded in 1920 . The newspaper was created in 1920 in the context of the Christian Social Workers' Union of Switzerland (CAB). The Hochwacht was relocated by the «Konkordia Winterthur Publishing Company», the publisher was its managing director Konrad Müller .

history

In Winterthur there were originally five competing daily newspapers: on the bourgeois side, the democratic country messenger and the liberal Winterthurer Tagblatt ; In addition, the conservative Weinländer , and the socialist Winterthur workers' newspaper vied for the workers in addition to the Christian- social high watch .

The independent leaflets of the Catholic Workers 'Association KAV and the Catholic Workers' Association KAiV, Der Arbeiter und Die Arbeiterin , were integrated into the Hochwacht as a special page on Wednesdays (women, until 1926) and Fridays (men, until 1930) . In the early 1920s, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories were reprinted repeatedly, including reviews from the pen of Joseph Eberle . From 1925 to 1955, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, a header for the Graubünden CSP was published under the name Bündner Hochwacht , until 1958 it was still weekly.

Since the economic basis for an independent Catholic newspaper in Winterthur was not given, the paper later appeared as the head page of the Neue Zürcher Nachrichten (NZN), mentioned in the title of the same until the end of the 1980s, later only as the Winterthur page of the NZN, bis they stopped showing in 1991.

The "Buchdruckerei Konkordia", on the other hand, was converted into an AG in 1971 and moved from Rudolfstrasse to Seuzach in 1992 before going bankrupt in 2003 .

literature

• Publishing house Buchdruckerei Konkordia Winterthur. Your role, importance and organization. Konkordia, Winterthur 1936.
• 25 years of service for the Christian social press 1906–1930. Konkordia, Winterthur 1931.
• Paul F. Bütler: The discomfort with modernity. Basics of Catholic newspaper teaching in German-speaking Switzerland during the challenge of modernism around 1900/1914. Schwabe, Basel 2002.
• Urs Altermatt : Swiss Catholicism in Transition 1945–1990. Saint-Paul, Freiburg i. Ü. 1993.
• Franco Luzzatto: Public Deficit of the Catholic Church. Organizational communication and communication structure of the Catholic Church Switzerland - Conditions for an end to the stagnation crisis. Saint-Paul, Freiburg i. Ü. 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Urs Altermatt: Swiss Catholicism in Transition 1945–1990. Saint-Paul, Freiburg i. Ü. 1993, p. 104.
2. ^ Andreas Wolfensberger, Martin Gmür: Winterthur. Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-905111-09-8 (section Die Medienszene , p. 90).
3. ↑ Urs Altermatt: Catholicism and anti-Semitism. Pp. 104-105.
4. ↑ Franziska Metzger: The «Schildwache». An integralist right-wing Catholic newspaper 1912–1945. P. 146 ff.
5. ↑ Festschrift 100 years of CVP Graubünden, p. 54.
6. ↑ Excerpt from the commercial register ( Memento of the original dated December 21, 2015 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.