Marburg press

Marburg press
description	former German daily newspaper
First edition	September 14, 1945
Frequency of publication	two times a week
Sold edition	10,000 copies
Editor-in-chief	Hermann Bauer, Friedrich Carl Bremer
editor	Hermann Bauer, Friedrich Carl Bremer
Web link	unavailable

The Marburger Presse (MP) was a daily newspaper that was distributed from 1945 to 1951 in the city of Marburg and the surrounding communities .

The Marburger Presse was licensed in early September 1945 as the third newspaper in the American occupation zone and the second after the Frankfurter Rundschau in Hesse and appeared for the first time on September 14, 1945. The licensees were Hermann Bauer , a native of Marburg and co-founder of the LDP , and the one from Gießen Original printer Friedrich Carl Bremer , a member of the SPD .

The newspaper had an initial circulation of 15,000 copies and later appeared twice a week with a circulation of 10,000 copies and had a length of four to six pages. The latest edition appeared at noon, as it was only printed from the morning on that day and not the night before. The Marburg press remained a “midday newspaper ” for its entire life until 1951. From 1947 the newspaper appeared three days a week (with a circulation of 30,577 copies). From August 1, 1948, the newspaper could appear daily and now had a length of 26 pages. At the same time, the price was reduced from 20  pfennigs to 15 pfennigs.

In 1951 the Marburger Presse merged with the Oberhessische Zeitung to form the Oberhessische Presse . The proposal to merge the two Marburg newspapers had come some time earlier from Carl Hitzeroth , the editor of the Oberhessische Zeitung, who died in November 1950 . After Bauer and Bremer agreed to this, the new newspaper appeared for the first time on July 1, 1951, with a title that united both former newspaper heads. It had an initial edition of 25,000 pieces.

Web links

• Eva-Juliane Welsch: The Hessian license holders and their newspapers . Diss., 2002. pp. 127-143