Munich latest news
The Munich Latest News was at the beginning of the 1930s from the support fro the largest daily newspaper in southern Germany. It was published from 1848 to 1945.
history
The newspaper was published on April 9, 1848. At that time, Karl Robert Schurich, a former employee of the Wolff'sche Buchdruckerei, published the first four-page issue under the name of Latest News from Politics .
It soon reached a print run of 15,000 copies. The single copy cost 1 Kreuzer, the annual subscription 2 guilders. It was only ranked message after message without any comment. Conservative circles were initially very skeptical of the newspaper in the revolutionary year of 1848.
But it prevailed and made its publisher wealthy. After 14 years, Schurich sold the latest news to Julius Knorr for 90,000 guilders . They now belonged to Knorr & Hirth-Verlag , from 1911 a GmbH owned by Thomas Knorr and Georg and Elise Hirth . After the death of these partners, the heirs sold the company to new partners from the heavy industry under the leadership of the Haniel family . During the empire it was one of the leading liberal papers of the time under the direction of Ernst Francke and Georg Hirth. After the beginning of World War I, it took on much more conservative contours.
From April 9, 1919, it was for a short time the organ of the Revolutionary Central Council of the Munich Soviet Republic .
In 1923 she supported the dictatorial Bavarian State Commissioner General Gustav von Kahr and fought against Chancellor Gustav Stresemann . It remained Catholic-monarchist-oriented until the 1930s, although the efforts of the group management around Paul Reusch were to get the newspaper on a path of tolerance towards the NSDAP . This failed because of the resistance of the editors.
As early as March 1928, the editor-in-chief Fritz Büchner and the head of the internal policy department Erwein Freiherr von Aretin were briefly arrested. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists editors massive pressure was suspended. In May 1933, numerous employees and the manager Anton Betz were dismissed . He was taken into so-called protective custody. Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , who was head of the Bavarian Political Police at the time , appointed the SS-Sturmbannführer Leo Friedrich Hausleiter , employed by the publishing house, as managing director, who immediately dismissed around 50 "politically unreliable" employees, including Eugen Roth . In addition, Giselher Wirsing became head of the domestic affairs department at Hausleiter's intervention . In 1935, the National Socialist Franz-Eher-Verlag , headed by Max Amann , took over the Knorr & Hirth-Verlag and thus took control of the newspaper. On November 1, 1938, Wirsing became chief editor . The daily average circulation in 1938 was around 92,500 copies.
As of April 28, 1945 it stopped its publication. The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) , published after the end of the war on October 6, 1945 under license No. 1 of the news control of the military government, sees itself as a successor to the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten . The title was taken over by the SZ for its local section.
Chess newspaper section
This newspaper is still valued by chess historians today for its chess newspaper section .
Lawyer Straßl was responsible for the chess section until October 1905. He was followed by E. von Parish and from September 1910, Lieutenant Colonel Kirschner took over the editorial office. Until 1914, Rudolf Spielmann made a great number of contributions, which in this way actually dominated the chess section. Siegbert Tarrasch took over the management in mid-1915 . During the First World War , chess news was restricted. From July to November 1914 this category no longer existed at all, after which only regional contributions and problem and study tasks appeared until mid-1918.
literature
- Munich's latest news and business newspaper, Alpine and sports newspaper, theater and art chronicle. Vol. 72, No. 92; Tuesday, February 25, 1919. Published under the censorship of the Central Council. Munich: Knorr & Hirth, 1919, 5 pp.
- 75 years of Munich's latest news . Edited by Friedrich Trefz. 1922, 184 pp.
- Walter Kaupert : The German daily press as a political issue . Kaupert, Freudenstadt 1932 (dissertation).
- Kurt Koszyk: Paul Reusch and the “Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten”. On the problem of "industry and press" in the final phase of the Weimar Republic . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 20, 1972, pp. 75–103, ifz-muenchen.de (PDF).
- Paul Hoser: The political, economic and social background of the Munich daily press between 1914 and 1934. Methods of influencing the press . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the early years and often as a prescription "Latest ..."
- ↑ Peter Langer: Paul Reusch and the synchronization of the “Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten” in 1933 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 2005, issue 2, p. 203, ifz-muenchen.de (PDF; 1.7 MB)
- ↑ Munich Latest News . In: Database of German-speaking Anarchism (DadA)
- ↑ Munich Latest News in the Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
- ↑ Der Druckspiegel: The magazine for German and international printing technology. Volume 20, Issues 7-12, 1965. Limited preview .