Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung

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The Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung was a newspaper that was published under various names between 1676 and 1934, initially in Augsburg and from 1912 in Munich. The paper was originally aimed at the conservative, Protestant readership in the 17th and 18th centuries and competed with the Catholic Augsburg postal newspaper . Later the newspaper took a more moderate liberal stance. During the Weimar Republic, the Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung had a national-conservative attitude due to a new owner and thus changed its focus again.

history

Originally known as the weekly Ordinari-Postzeitung , the newspaper was printed by Jakob Koppmayer (1640–1701) in Augsburg, a son-in-law of Johann Kaspar Schultes, the son of Friedrich Schultes. Koppmayer's journeyman, August Sturm, went into self-employment in 1685 and founded a rival Catholic newspaper, which was initially very similar to the Protestant newspaper Koppmayers and later became known as the "Augsburger Postzeitung".

"Augspurgische Ordinari-Post-Zeitung" , title page, 1762

Jakob Koppmayer was first followed in 1701 by his son-in-law Andreas Maschenbauer (1660–1772) and later by the publisher, meteorologist, astronomer and copper engraver Johann Andreas Erdmann Maschenbauer (1719–1773) as the owner. Since Johann Andreas Erdmann Maschenbauer's newspapers were used by the municipal authorities of Augsburg as non-denominational, officious advertising papers, he saw the Augsburg censorship authority as a protection for himself, not least as an economic one. After Maschenbauer's death in 1773, there was a frequent change of ownership of the paper, which had been known as the “Augspurgische Ordinari-Zeitung”. At the same time, the newspaper lost its importance and fell behind the competition.

On January 1st, 1802, Johann Georg Fetzer bought the newspaper. Fetzer and his heirs Daniel and Lydia Credé, b. Fetzer, remained the owner of the newspaper until 1827, which it leased to August Bäumer from 1818. In 1827 Johann Christian Wirth acquired the publishing house and continued to run the newspaper under the name Augsburger Abendzeitung . During this time, the newspaper took on a more liberal attitude for the first time. Under the leadership of Johann Christian Wirth and then from 1851 under his son Carl (1826-1892), the paper recorded a steady increase in circulation.

The F. Bruckmann Verlag AG from Munich joined as the new owner 1904th On September 2, 1912, the newspaper was given the name München-Augsburger Abendzeitung and operations were relocated to Munich at Paul-Heyse-Strasse 9, the current headquarters of Münchner Merkurs . In 1914 the newspaper had a daily circulation of 49,000. Among other things, the young Bertolt Brecht and Oskar Maria Graf published there . Friedrich Karl Möhl was editor-in-chief from 1918 . From 1920 the newspaper belonged to the media empire of the industrialist Alfred Hugenberg , who is considered to be an important bourgeois pioneer of National Socialism. As a result, the newspaper increasingly became the organ of the DNVP .

In the following years the newspaper became closer to right-wing and German national forces. In 1921, at Alfred Hugenberg's request, the theologian and DNVP politician Gottfried Traub took over the post of editor-in-chief; Julius Friedrich Lehmann , publisher of ethnic and racist literature, became a partner. In 1928 Otto Dietrich , who later became head of the Nazi press, became head of the trading section. Since the Reichstag election in 1930 at the latest , the newspaper has shown open sympathy for the NSDAP . After a sharp decline in circulation, the paper was discontinued on December 31, 1934.

literature

  • "Johann Andreas Erdmann Maschenbauer, his 'Augsburger Intellektiven-Zettel' and the book market in the second half of the 18th century." In: Enlightenment press. Periodic writings in the Old Kingdom. Edited by Sabine Doering-Manteuffel , Josef Manal and Wolfgang Wüst. Berlin 2001.

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Remarks

  1. ^ A b c d Josef Mančal: Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung in the Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
  2. ^ Official ordinance in deß Heil. Imperial city of Augspurg, the abolition of the foreign and local church, house and alley begging. Augsburg, Maschenbauer 1711. Prohibition of private alms giving, maintenance of a poor institution, deportation of foreign beggars
  3. ^ A b Günther Grünsteudel : Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 .
  4. ↑ Helmut Gier: Brecht in the First World War
  5. ^ Paul Hoser: Press (20th century) in the Historisches Lexikon Bayerns
  6. ^ The Prussian Legation in Munich to the Foreign Office. Munich, December 17, 1920