Mainzer Zeitung

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The Mainzer Zeitung was a liberal newspaper based in Mainz , which appeared from 1801 to 1851.

From 1801 the Mainzer Zeitung was published by the Mainzer Rochushospitals printing company. In 1812, the Mainz printer Theodor von Zabern acquired the privilege to print the newspaper from the printer, as it was not allowed to found a new newspaper in Mainz, France at the time .

From 1816 to 1822 Professor Friedrich Lehne from Mainz edited the newspaper. During his time it became more liberal and critical, and attention was increasingly drawn to political grievances such as censorship efforts and restorative social tendencies. Under Lehne, the Mainzer Zeitung became the most important press organ in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , even if the government in Darmstadt temporarily banned its publication in 1822 and had Lehne replaced.

In 1832, after the Hambach Festival , press censorship was tightened through new laws. From 1838 the geographer , publicist and later consul Karl Andree edited the newspaper.

In 1848, under its new editor Ludwig Bamberger , the newspaper finally sided with the revolution . At this time, the revolutionary Friedrich Jacob Schütz also joined the editorial team. Bamberger soon had to leave the newspaper. Also the resistance against the particularly conservative form of Catholicism, the " ultramontanism ", which wanted to achieve a unity of state and church under their primacy as well as a re-Catholicization of the world, was borne by the newspaper.

The Mainzer Zeitung remained critical, but press censorship was tightened again. Attempts were initially made to circumvent a new ban by renaming the newspaper the Mainzer Abendpost , but at the end of 1851 the newspaper was finally banned.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Schütz: Provincial capital and fortress of the German Confederation (1814 / 16-1866) in: Ed .: Franz Dumont , Ferdinand Scherf , Friedrich Schütz: Mainz - The history of the city . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998 (first edition).
  2. ↑ The history of the publishing house Victor von Zabern in: Ed .: Franz Dumont , Ferdinand Scherf , Friedrich Schütz: Mainz - The history of the city . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998 (first edition).
  3. ↑ Hermann-Josef Braun: The Christian Mainz in the 19th and 20th centuries , in: Mainz - The history of the city
  4. ↑ State and University Library Bremen: Newspapers and newspaper-like periodicals, p. 81 ( Memento from June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )