Josef Schützinger

Josef Schützinger

Josef Adam Schützinger (born February 14, 1859 in Munich , † August 8, 1914 in Tirschenreuth ) was a Bavarian newspaper founder, publisher and printer owner .

Live and act

Josef Schützinger was born in Munich and learned to be a book printer . As a journeyman book printer , he first worked for the Holzkirchner Zeitung Oberbayerischer Gebirgsbote , before moving to Wörth an der Donau in 1889 with the aim of founding his own publishing house .

First edition of the Donau-Post from October 1st, 1891

In Wörth an der Donau he founded the newspaper Donau-Post on October 1, 1891 , which was also the official gazette for the royal district of Wörth ad Donau . The newspaper appeared three times a week and initially had four pages. It could be purchased individually for five Reichspfennige . The paper published all local events, but also reports of general interest were published.

When a major market fire broke out in Wörth in 1892 and the building of the Josef Schützinger printing house was not spared, the newspaper publisher did not give up and moved his publishing house to another building that had been spared. His newspaper established itself over the years and by 1903 had developed into the local newspaper for almost all households. The area of ​​appearance extended from the Bavarian Vorwald to Regensburg and Straubing , and in the south to the Gäuboden . Around this time, a larger newspaper format was also used. The printing company also produced numerous other printed products. Josef Schützinger was closely associated with Wörth. When he died in 1914, he was buried in the family grave at the cemetery in Wörth, later followed by his wife Eva Schützinger, nee. Dreier (1856–1930), his son Josef (1882–1925) and other descendants.

After the death of the newspaper founder Josef Schützinger, the management of the publishing house changed frequently and was partly led by his son Josef. He died in 1925. In 1928, the Donau-Post was able to expand its publication area to Falkenstein until it became the property of Cl. On October 20, 1930 from the publisher's widow, Karoline Schützinger . Attenkofer's book and art print shop in Straubing passed over. The size of the newspaper was thus expanded to eight pages and it now appeared six times a week.

The so far from the Cl. Attenkofer'sche publishing house published in Wörth Wörthersee-Volkszeitung was the Danube Post united, also by Schützinger acquired newspaper Falkensteiner Waldbote with Falkensteiner Volkszeitung . The Neues Aufhausener Tagblatt was also acquired.

Today the local newspaper Donau-Post is a local edition of the media group Straubinger Tagblatt / Landshuter Zeitung .

Poem by Josef Schützinger

Memorial plaque for the Schützinger family from Wörth in the cemetery in Wörth an der Donau

(Grandson of the newspaper founder and book printer owner)

Set in Volkston in 1936 by Alfred Küchler.

1st stanza

"My Wörth a. D." (Wörther Heimatlied)

“Where there is joyful jubilation in the valley,
where there is a murmur through mountain forest,
where the boat easily pulls in the nearby stream
and the shy game flees the hunter,
where the field of corn ripens in the sunshine,
there can only be Wörth, my dear home .
only Wörth can there only Wörth can be my dear home "

literature

• Josef Fendl (Red.): Wörth, city between river and mountain. Regensburg 1979, DNB 790673258 .
• Ludwig Schindler: Josef Schützinger´s Heimatlied in: Stadtführer Wörth. Attenkofer, Straubing 2008, ISBN 978-3-936511-52-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wörth an der Donau: Piece of local history is lost forever. ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 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. In: Idowa October 31, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2014.