Munich Illustrated Press
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| description | Munich weekly newspaper |
| publishing company | Knorr & Hirth GmbH |
| First edition | 1924 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Sold edition | Max. 650,000 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | u. a. Stefan Lorant |
The Munich Illustrated Press was a 1924 by Richard Pflaum Verlag , founded in 1925 at the Knorr & Hirth Verlag sold illustrated newspaper, which appeared to 1944th It was considered to be an innovative and, alongside the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung, a leading paper in contemporary "modern" photojournalism .
The magazine was bought in 1925 by Knorr & Hirth GmbH , the Munich publishing house, which emerged in 1875 from the printing house Knorr & Hirth of the Munich publisher of the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten , Julius Knorr (1826–1881) and his son-in-law Georg Hirth (1841–1916) was. In 1894 their art publishing house, the printing company and Knorr's publishing house were merged to form the joint publishing house Knorr & Hirth . In 1920 a consortium dominated by heavy industry bought the entire company, which continued to grow in the following years. In 1928 Stefan Lorant was appointed editor-in-chief. The circulation rose from 53,400 to 650,000 in 1933. From 1928 to 1932 the magazine published political caricatures and picture stories by Karl Arnold , which was a novelty for the paper. On March 13, 1933, with the arrest of the editor-in-chief Stefan Lorant on March 13, 1933, the National Socialists took control of the paper. Heinrich Himmler and the NSDAP appointed two reliable National Socialists who had worked for the publishing house before 1933 as acting publishing directors, Leo Hausleiter and Paul von Hahn . In the same year they published a series of pictures by Friedrich Franz Bauer about the Dachau concentration camp under the title The Truth About Dachau, together with a positive article that was supposed to convince the public of the harmlessness of a concentration camp and refute rumored reports about the conditions in the camp.
In 1935, the National Socialist Eher Verlag bought the Knorr & Hirth company; In 1944, the production of the Münchner Illustrierte Presse was stopped due to a lack of paper. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the military government transferred the property of Eher Verlag to the Bavarian state, which, with the exception of the book publisher, sold it on to the license holders of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1951 . These published the Münchner Illustrierte from 1950 to 1960 , which then became part of the Bunten Illustrierte . The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung as a competitor appeared after the war on special events and since 1984 as the Sunday magazine of the Berliner Morgenpost even weekly.
literature
- Friedrich Trefz: The foundation of the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten and its development . In: Seventy-five years of Munich's latest news . Munich 1922, 1-3.
- Kurt Koszyk: Deutsche Presse 1914-1945 (History of the German Press, 3). Berlin 1972.