Memminger Newspaper
| Memminger Newspaper | |
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| description | regional daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Allgäuer newspaper publisher |
| First edition | January 3, 1804 |
| Frequency of publication | working days |
| Sold edition | 17,683 copies |
| ( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat) | |
| Web link | News on all-in.de |
The Memminger Zeitung is a daily, independent daily newspaper for the Memminger area. It appears as a print and e-paper edition and in a scaled-down form as a free online edition. The sold circulation is 17,683 copies, a decrease of 24.4 percent since 1998.
history
A newspaper appeared for the first time on March 2, 1709 in Memmingen. It was published by Anton Neppenschmid and was entitled Neppenschmid'sche Zeitung . When Neppenschmid died in 1712, there was no new printer in town to take over the newspaper.
The first edition of the Memmingische Ordinären Zeitung appeared on January 3, 1804. It came out on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The oldest surviving copy of this newspaper from September 18, 1804 is kept in the Scientific City Library of Memmingen in the Grimmelhaus . It cannot be determined whether there were other newspapers before 1804. In 1808, Johannes Rehm published the Memminger Zeitung for the first time , which appeared on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from 1811 three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. From 1816 to 1821 the Thursday edition was canceled. Recent research assumes that this newspaper has also been around since 1804. Rehm, who also used the newspaper as a political paper for his ideals, sold the newspaper in 1838 to his son-in-law Carl Fischbach, who published it until 1847. After a 16-year hiatus, the bookseller Oskar Besemfelder took over the newspaper in 1863. It had already been printed in Kempten several months earlier and sold by Besemfelder. In 1865 Theodor Otto continued the newspaper. It continued to be published until after the National Socialists came to power; the newspaper did not have to be discontinued until December 31, 1935. The National Socialists did not tolerate the National Liberal paper, which is why it was compulsorily merged with the Catholic Memminger Volksblatt, which had been published in Memmingen since 1890. In addition, the Allgäu Observer was created in 1930 and was sponsored by the National Socialists. In order to further restrict the freedom of the press, on January 1, 1936, the Memminger Zeitung was forcibly merged with the Allgäuer Beobachter as a cooperative. The place of printing was at Schrannenplatz in Memmingen, the cooperative members were high party officials of the NSDAP. With the end of the war the newspaper was discontinued. The functionaries of the cooperative had mostly fled or imprisoned. However, the newspaper could not be deleted from the commercial register because it was not possible to convene the members for a cooperative resolution.
In August 1945 the American military government approved the establishment of a local union in Memmingen, the second in Bavaria after Hof . In the same year, its members applied for a regional newspaper to be published. The military government rejected this on the grounds that only independent newspaper publishers received a printing license . Theo Schuster used the undeleted entry of the Allgäu observer in the commercial register and called a cooperative meeting. Of the former 52 members, around 30 had little or no political burden. The old board was voted out and a new one was appointed. The resolutions of the Society's Assembly were only recognized by the American military government through a certain confusion in terms of competencies and German and American laws. One or the other relationship with employees of the military government also helped. The very dangerous behavior of the members of the cooperative prevented a confiscation of the newspaper inventory. Schuster got a license as a printer and so the printing and publishing cooperative egmbH could be founded. The commander of the military government allocated whiskey, cigarettes and paper, in return the American soldiers were to be taught to print in groups of 20 people - albeit without success. The first thing to do was to print playing cards, as the necessary cardboard was available. These were sold well in the country, in exchange for butter, cheese and flour. This enabled paper to be obtained. With this, exercise books could be printed. At the end of 1946, the newspaper's asset management team discovered the former party's assets and confiscated them. After lengthy negotiations, the printing company was able to use the assets for printing operations under fiduciary supervision. A year later Theo Schuster founded the publishing house Dietrich & Schuster together with the publisher Maximilian Dietrich from Ziemetshausen . The latter leased the former printing company from asset management. It was only by chance that the owners became aware in early 1949 that the American military government had almost sold the Memmingen printing company to the Allgäuer newspaper publisher. The CSU politician Mühleisen and August Schwingstein , the former co-editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, prevented the sale of the Bavarian Prime Minister Hans Ehard at the last minute. However, one had to agree to extensive restrictions. The Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag had to take a 50 percent stake in the newspaper, and the printing company was allowed to keep operations. On November 9, 1949, the Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei GmbH was signed.
Dietrich & Schuster discontinued the advertising paper, the Allgäuer Heimatverlag gave up its Memminger Tagblatt. The first edition of today's Memminger Zeitung appeared on November 15, 1949. The newspaper was sold three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at a price of 20 pfennigs or at a monthly subscription price of 2.20 D-Marks . The initial circulation was 7500 pieces. In 1953 a new printing machine in the Rhenish format was purchased. After the old building was no longer sufficient for the modern printing company due to a lack of space, a new building was considered in the early 1960s. On May 25, 1963, the newly built house, then known as the Glass Palace , was inaugurated with an open house. The architect was the government builder Willy Hornung from nearby Ottobeuren . The Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag and the Memminger Zeitung signed a contract on October 1, 1968 on a working and interest group for the joint publication of a local newspaper for the city and district of Memmingen. Up until this point in time, the newspaper in Memmingen was printed on a 20-page rotary press. The jacket sides came from Augsburg and Kempten. The Memminger Zeitung has been printed by the Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag in Kempten since 1968. The typesetting and make-up of the local pages will continue to be produced in Memmingen.
At the beginning of 2002 the Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag became the sole owner of the Memminger Zeitung. The building on Schrannenplatz was completely renovated in 2003 and the former printing rooms were rented out. The old building was demolished in 2008 as part of the major Schrannenplatz conversion and the redesign in favor of a modern building complex. The newspaper, which is still based in Memmingen with its office, editorial office, advertising department and sales department as the Memminger Zeitung, moved to the newly built service center komm on Donaustraße. Today the newspaper has a circulation of over 21,000.
Distribution area
The circulation area of the newspaper extends to the independent city of Memmingen, the Altlandkreis Memmingen and the Württemberg Illertal of the districts of Biberach and Ravensburg .
Edition
The Memminger newspaper , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 1.7% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 2.7%. It is currently 17,683 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 90.1 percent.
Development of the number of copies sold
Special supplements
The Memminger Zeitung publishes special supplements several times a year. The oldest edition of the Spiegelschwab , at that time still under the name Schwäbischer Erzähler , is from 1897; however, this was already No. 37 of the 13th year. There must therefore have been previous editions. The city archivist Julius Miedel was responsible for the editing, the Th. Otto'sche Buchdruckerei for the printing. The tradition that the Memmingen city archivists edit the Spiegelschwab still exists. Christoph Engelhard is currently responsible for the special supplement. Until his death in 2013, the local curator Uli Braun also worked on the special supplement, which reports on current and historical events in the Swabian city's history.
Several special supplements were already published by the previous newspapers , including the Haus, Hof, Garten , Landmanns Feierabend , the Illustrierte Sonntags-Blatt and the Frauenzeitung until 1936 . The Ottobeurer Zeitung was also published as a parallel edition during the same period .
literature
- 200 years of Memminger Zeitung, Memminger Zeitung, December 10, 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
- ↑ Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Clauss, covering the years 1826-1892, editor: Friedrich Döderlein, Memmingen, Verlag von B. Hartnig, 1894, page 241
- ↑ according to IVW ( online )
- ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
- ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
- ^ Memminger Zeitung at the Bavarian State Library. Retrieved July 24, 2011 .