Leipziger Tageblatt

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The Leipziger Tageblatt was a Leipzig newspaper of local and regional importance that appeared from 1807 to 1925.

history

The newspaper was founded by the publisher and owner of a reading library Johann Gottlieb Beygang (1755–1823). It mainly represented the interests of the city's commercial bourgeoisie with a liberal orientation. From 1808 a supplement appeared about new book publications and bookshops in Leipzig. Official notices were published from 1810. In 1819 the printer Friedrich Ehrenreich Richter took over the newspaper; Beygang died completely impoverished in 1823.

In 1833 the Leipziger Tageblatt took over the Städtische Anzeiger and acted as the official gazette of the City Council of Leipzig . This made it the city's main advertising paper. In the course of its existence, the Leipziger Tageblatt experienced several name changes.

From 1913 to 1921 the publisher and politician Peter Reinhold headed the publishing house of the newspaper, which he sold to Ullstein Verlag . The Leipziger Tageblatt merged at the beginning of 1926 with the New Leipzig newspaper that from the name from then New Leipzig newspaper and Leipziger Tageblatt led.

From August 1, 1990 to August 31, 1991 the Sächsisches Tageblatt was continued under the name Leipziger Tageblatt , but had to cease its publication for economic and antitrust reasons.

Known employees

The authors included Erich Kästner , the chess master Max Blümich and the music critics Ferdinand Pfohl (until 1892) and Paul Umlauft . The ethnologist and legal sociologist Eva Lips , who was a cactus lover, wrote her first article for the newspaper in 1923 while still at school. In the first half of the 1920s, the music critic Hans Schnoor was the newspaper's editor.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Ufer: Leipziger Presse 1789 to 1815 . Dissertation. University of Leipzig 1995 p. 173 ff ISBN 3-8258-3164-7 (digitized version)
  2. ↑ Extract from the journal database
  3. ↑ Steffen Reichert: Transformation processes: The conversion of the LVZ. Münster 2000. ISBN 3-8258-4487-0
  4. ↑ Erich Kästner: The merchant's carnival. Collected texts from the Leipzig period 1923–1927 . Ed .: Klaus Schuhmann. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-937146-17-2 .

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