Munich Post

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Munich Post

description Daily newspaper for the working population of Munich-Southern Bavaria
language German
First edition 1887
attitude 1933
Frequency of publication Every day
Editor-in-chief Adolf Müller, Martin Gruber
editor Louis Viereck, Georg von Vollmar, Georg Birk
ZDB 646658-8
Munich Post 1916

The Munich Post was from 1887 to 1933 in Munich laid Social Democratic newspaper . The circulation was 1,890 in 8000, 1,914 in 30,000 in the early 1920s at 60,000 copies and fell during the Great Depression to 15,000 copies. It was mainly subscribed to by Munich party members of the SPD.

The first editor was Louis Viereck , in 1890 he was replaced by the Munich Reichstag deputies Georg von Vollmar and Georg Birk , and the newspaper became the property of the SPD. From October 1, 1892, Louis Cohn took over the newspaper as full-time managing director on behalf of the entire party. He should rehabilitate it economically and act as a watchdog for the Berlin party headquarters. He succeeded in turning the newspaper's publishing house, the "Firma Birk & Co", into an efficient company. With his attempts to influence the editorial office and the politics of the Bavarian social democracy, however, Cohn failed. Cohn held the post as managing director of the Münchner Post until 1918.

Among the editors were Adolf Braun , Richard Calwer and the later mayor of Munich Eduard Schmid . From 1895, Adolf Müller , another reformer in the sense of Vollmar, ran the newspaper. Kurt Eisner wrote for the feature pages from 1910, but he had no influence on the reformist orientation of the paper. After the outbreak of the First World War , Müller stood on the side of the supporters of the truce, the war opponent Eisner was tolerated by Müller in the feature pages.

The editorial office was the target of an attack by National Socialists during the Hitler putsch in 1923 and was temporarily banned by the State Commissioner General of the Bavarian Government Gustav von Kahr .

The later editor-in-chief Martin Gruber uncovered the brutal attacks by the colonial politician Carl Peters against the population in German East Africa in 1907 . In the Weimar Republic he was repeatedly involved in trials for reporting in the newspaper and sued in the Munich stab- in-the-back trial for convicting the propagators of the stab-in- the-back legend of falsifying history, nevertheless he was convicted under civil law. The paper criticized the NSDAP and its ideology and operated investigative journalism against the National Socialists. The NSDAP was held up against the double standards against homosexuals, the suicide of Adolf Hitler's niece Geli Raubal was discussed.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , the editorial offices were again raided and devastated, editors were arrested, and the newspaper was finally banned. The editor Erhard Auer spent months in prison and in the concentration camp , he was banned from working and died exhausted in 1945. The editor Edmund Goldschagg had to go into hiding during the National Socialist era . After the end of the war he was the licensee for the newly founded Süddeutsche Zeitung , which, however, did not take up the social democratic tradition.

literature

  • Ron Rosenbaum : Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil . New York: Random House, 1998
  • Charlotte Harrer: The history of the Munich daily press 1870-1890 . In: Zeitung und Leben , vol. 75 (1940). Würzburg-Aumühle.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Paul Hoser: Munich Post. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
  2. ↑ a b c d e Joachim Käppner : Die Welt didn't hear them , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 7, 2015, p. 46
  3. ^ Louis Cohn in the Historical Lexicon of Bavaria: Munich Post