Libausche Newspaper

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Libausche Newspaper. Official publication organ of the Libau district and the Grobin and Hasenpoth districts

description Daily newspaper, official gazette
language German
publishing company DG Meyer (Russia)
Headquarters Poststrasse 8-10, Libau
First edition September 24, 1824
attitude June 22, 1939
Frequency of publication daily, except Sundays and public holidays
Sold edition approx. 6,200 (1928)
approx. 3,000 (1937) copies
Editors-in-chief Arno Meyer (until 1939)
ZDB 1026218-0

The Libausche Zeitung was the official publication organ of the Libau district and the Grobin and Hasenpoth districts in the Kurland Governorate of the Russian Empire. The Libausche Zeitung was the oldest German newspaper in Latvia .

history

The newspaper appeared daily from September 22, 1824 to June 22, 1939, except on Sundays and public holidays.

From September 24, 1824 to March 21, 1825, the story "Rebecca", the first newspaper novel in the Baltic press , appeared consecutively in each issue .

The newspaper was last printed in the book and lithography of Gottlieb Dietrich Meyer (1828–1902), who from 1856 also ran a photography and daguerreotype shop in Libau . Most recently Arno Meyer (1892–1972) was the publisher and chief editor. When the newspaper was discontinued, the subsidiary edition "Deutscher Bote", which had been published since 1937, was also discontinued. Arno Meyer stated that the closure of the newspaper was related to the situation of the German ethnic group in Libau, which had lost half of its original population through emigration in the last 20 years.

Political classification

Wolfgang Wachtsmuth described in his activity report On German Work in Latvia 1918–1934 the Libausche Zeitung as "held in a liberal spirit" newspaper. The Political Handbook of the World of the Council on Foreign Relations classifies the newspaper as politically conservative.

literature

  • 100 years of Libausche Zeitung. GD Meyer, Libau 1924.
  • The front reports of the "Libausche Zeitung" . In: Bolshevism and the Baltic Front. S. Hirzel , 1939, p. 51 ff.

proof

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sperling's magazines a. Newspaper address book. HO Sperling, 1931, p. 609.
  2. ^ Friedrich Bertkau: The official newspaper system in the administrative area Ober-Ost. Contribution to the history of the press during the World War. E. Reinicke, 1928, p. 55.
  3. ^ Karl Bömer : Handbook of the world press. Leipzig 1937, p. 268.
  4. ↑ The "Libausche Zeitung" received. In: Deutsche Presse , Ausg. 29, 1939, p. 266.
  5. ↑ a b Baltic monthly books . Born in 1938. Ernst Plates, 1938, p. 81.
  6. ↑ Baltic Yearbook 1906 , F. Deutsch, 1906, p. 101.
  7. ^ Alfred Intelmann: Notes on the last year of work of the Baltic German ethnic group in Latvia and their resettlement. Druckmeister Essen, 1984, p. 149.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Wachtsmuth: The political face of the German ethnic group in Latvia in the parliamentary period. [= Vol. 3. On German work in Latvia 1918–1934 ], Comel, Cologne 1953, p. 11.
  9. ↑ Political Handbook of the World. Council on Foreign Relations, Harper & Brothers, 1931, p. 119.