Märkische Union (newspaper)
The Märkische Union was the last CDU - daily newspaper for Brandenburg on February 3, 1948, a license from the SMAD founded. The news agency ADN reported the approval of the "occupying power" as early as December 31, 1947 and named the newspaper title Märkische Union and Potsdam as the place of publication . The newspaper initially appeared only three times a week. The then chairman of the CDU in the state of Brandenburg, Wilhelm Wolf , wrote in the first edition of the Märkische Union that Germany's unity remains the top priority.
The first publishing director was the deputy CDU state chairman from Brandenburg and, from November 1948, the first chairman of this block party in the state of Brandenburg, Karl Grobbel. The first editor-in - chief was Hans-Werner Gyßling and remained so until February 1949. From 1948 to 1950, Xaver Kugler was an editor at the Märkische Union , who had previously been a volunteer under Gyssling at the CDU newspaper Der Demokratie in Schwerin . With the help of published advertisements in Neue Zeit , suitable editors for politics and local issues were sought by the MÄRISCHE UNION publishing house, which was based in Potsdam, Alte Wache , Lindenstrasse and the corner of Charlottenstrasse. The paper, which was editorially managed by Gyßling, took the side of Ernst Lemmer when attacks were made against the CDU politician in Berlin press organs. The CDU newspaper noted Lemmer's positive collaboration in the Brandenburg state parliament: “His work is clear evidence of his attitude. Lemmer has never distanced himself from the politics of the Brandenburg State Association, of which he is a member and leading functionary. On the good friendship relationship between Lemmer and his parliamentary group colleagues, including state association chairman Dr. Wolf and Otto Nuschke from the zone management ”, pointed out the Märkische Union emphatically.
Gyßling's successor as editor-in-chief was Walter Schur until March 1951. Günter Wirth was editorial secretary at Märkische Union from 1948 to 1950 , worked for its cultural section for a year and a half and in 1961 became deputy editor-in-chief of Neue Zeit .
After the GDR districts were formed in 1952, it was supplied to readers in the territories of the districts of the same name: Cottbus, Frankfurt / Oder and Potsdam. The circulation in 1981 was around 41,000 copies, cf. Daily newspapers of the GDR . There was close cooperation between the editorial offices of the daily newspaper Die Union , Dresden, and the Märkische Union , Potsdam. The editors-in-chief of DIE UNION were also editors-in-chief of the Märkische Union newspaper from the 1950s until the Peaceful Revolution in 1989 : Ursula Friedrich from 1958 to 1960, Karl-Friedrich Fuchs from 1960 to 1971, Johannes ("Hans") Zillig from 1973 to 1977 , Dieter Eberle from 1974 to 1977 and Fred Eismann from mid-1977 to 1989. Editors of the regional CDU newspapers reported on local political and cultural events in the districts of the GDR , who also wrote articles on these topics for the CDU central organ Neue Zeit .
The Märkische Union , which still existed as an independent daily newspaper after the fall of the Wall in 1989, ceased its publication on February 28, 1990 for economic reasons.
Individual evidence
- ^ Reprinted from the agency message in the newspaper Neues Deutschland from January 1, 1948, p. 4
- ^ Neue Zeit , January 3, 1948, p. 2
- ^ Neue Zeit , February 4, 1948, p. 2
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- ^ Neue Zeit , February 6, 1948, p. 4
- ↑ Quoted in: Neue Zeit , April 10, 1948, p. 2
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ On transformation processes in the GDR CDU 1989/90 by Günter Wirth. Günter Wirth and the GDR CDU. A preliminary biographical and editorial note by Manfred Agethen; Document from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
- ↑ Wirth, Günter: The Other Spirit of Potsdam , Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 185; ISBN 3-518-39634-X
- ^ Deutsches Pfarrerblatt - issue: 11/2009 Appreciation of Günter Wirth
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