Kiel newspaper
| Kiel newspaper | |
|---|---|
| Kieler-Zeitung-19181109.jpg | |
| description | Headline from November 9, 1918 |
| language | German |
| Headquarters | Kiel |
| First edition | June 19, 1864 |
| attitude | April 30, 1936 |
| founder | Wilhelm Hans Ahlmann |
| Frequency of publication | Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 15,000 (1926) copies |
| ( Newspaper history of Schleswig-Holstein - until 1945 ) | |
The Kieler Zeitung was the first daily newspaper to appear in Kiel . It was founded by the banker and politician Wilhelm Hans Ahlmann . The first edition appeared on June 19, 1864, the last on April 30, 1936.
history
The duchies of Schleswig and Holstein- Lauenburg belonged to the Danish state in 1864 and fought for their independence. Ahlmann also wanted to support this goal by founding the Kieler Zeitung during the German-Danish War . He sharply criticized Otto von Bismarck's policy, who prevented the duchies from becoming independent and instead incorporated them into Prussia as the province of Schleswig-Holstein . Because of this, the newspaper was banned twice in the early years.
At the end of the 19th century, Ahlmann sold his newspaper to the Saxon commercial councilors and brothers Carl Friedrich and Gottlieb Paul Leonhardt from Crossen near Zwickau. The Leonhardts already owned the Kieler Neuesten Nachrichten , founded in 1894 , the second forerunner of today's Kieler Nachrichten . The new publishing house built a new building on Fleethörn in Kiel at the beginning of the 20th century. The Kieler Zeitung Verlags und Druckerei KG-GmbH & Co. as the publisher of Kieler Nachrichten , according to its own statement, also preserves the tradition of the Kieler Zeitung with its name .
In 1926, 50 press products appeared six times a week in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, the Kieler Zeitung was the only one with two issues a day.
In 1936, the Kieler Zeitung ceased publication without any official reason. "The story of a newspaper that was Schleswig-Holstein's home newspaper for 72 years now comes to an end", the publisher and editorial team said goodbye in the last issue on April 30th. A possible explanation is seen today in the destruction of private press groups wanted by the National Socialists , since the Kieler Zeitung as well as the Kieler Neuesten Nachrichten were published by the company Gerbrandt, Junghans and Co. KG . Its personally liable partner Carl Friedrich Leonhardt transferred his company rights to his daughter Irene under pressure from the Reich Press Chamber in 1936, who then passed them on to her husband Curt Heinrich.
From September 1942 the name Kieler Zeitung was used again when the NSDAP forcibly merged the largest newspaper in Schleswig-Holstein, the Kieler Neuesten Nachrichten , with the already party official Nordic Rundschau . The fusion sheet appeared as a Kieler Zeitung with the subtitle "The Gauamtliche Organ der NSDAP" and the addition "News sheet of all authorities".