Neckar newspaper
The Neckar-Zeitung was in Heilbronn appearing regional daily newspaper which appeared under this title from 1861 to 1934. A forerunner of the Neckar-Zeitung was published for the first time in 1744, and a successor was published until July 31, 1937. The newspaper was nationally important from 1902 to 1919, when Ernst Jäckh , Theodor Heuss and Erich Schairer were editors-in-chief of the then extremely political daily newspaper were.
history
Forerunner of the daily newspaper 1744 to 1848
Since the invention of printing well into the 19th century, Heilbronn was only allowed to print what was approved by the city council. The weekly Heilbronn news and announcement sheet was first published as a licensed newspaper on Wednesday, January 1, 1744 in the publishing house of the Arnstadt- based publisher Johann Christian Leucht, who had been running a printer in Heilbronn since 1710 and was a member of the Grand Council from 1732 was. His printing house burned down in 1743, but he rebuilt it immediately and applied for the printing of a weekly "Kundschaffsblatt" on December 24, 1743, which he was granted on December 28, after which the first edition appeared four days later. The newspaper carried the imperial city coat of arms in its head and published mainly official ordinances along with entertaining and instructive articles. In 1752 the newspaper passed to Leucht's son-in-law Allinger and from there to his son-in-law Johann Christian, under whom the newspaper was called Heilbronner Wochenblatt from 1780 . After Johann Christian's violent death in 1799 (he was killed by a drunken soldier), the newspaper passed to Allinger's son Georg, who in 1801 acquired Carl Schell, who came from Schillingsfürst, as a partner. From 1801 under this publisher couple, later solely under Schell and his descendants, the newspaper was called Heilbronnsches Intellektivenblatt . After the transition of the city of Heilbronn to Württemberg and the elevation of Württemberg to kingdom in 1806, the Württemberg coat of arms took the place of the imperial city eagle in the head of the newspaper. The title was changed slightly to Heilbronner Intellektivenblatt. On August 1, 1844, the newspaper became the official journal for the Oberamtsbezirke Heilbronn , Besigheim , Brackenheim , Neckarsulm and Weinsberg as well as the Grand Ducal Hessian district Wimpfen under the title Intelligence-Blatt von Heilbronn . In 1838 the subtitle Heilbronner Tagblatt appeared briefly , which became the new main title after the format change in 1848.
Sheet 1760
Heilbronner Wochenblatt
Intelligence sheet from Heilbronn
Heilbronner Tagblatt 1848 to 1861
Until 1848, the newspaper had a reference to the high authority approval (etc.) in the subtitle. For the first time in the Tagblatt , this notice was omitted. Admittedly, the newspaper was still the conservative press organ of the city and the National Liberal Party, which was opposed to the Neckar steamship founded in 1842 and its successor newspapers . The news section was expanded and in future there was a fiction supplement, the “Unterhaltungsblatt”, printed in half-format of the newspaper. The publisher at this time was Moriz Schell (1810–1870), who had taken over the newspaper from his mother, Carl Schell's widow.
Neckar newspaper 1861 to 1934
The Tagblatt became the Neckar-Zeitung in 1861 (subtitle Heilbronner Tagblatt ). After Moriz Schell's death, his son Hermann Schell took over the publishing house. In 1885 Viktor Kraemer senior (1840–1911) joined the publishing house as a partner. Kraemer had been in Heilbronn since 1870 and had previously founded a resin product factory with the manufacturer Ernst Flammer. In 1898 Kraemer became the sole owner of the publishing house, whose building he significantly expanded in 1899.
Kraemer senior made the then Stuttgart correspondent of the newspaper, Ernst Jäckh , editor-in-chief in 1902 and transformed the newspaper into a nationally respected, political daily newspaper. Under Jäckhs' chief editor, the circulation increased from 14,000 to 20,000 copies from 1902 to 1912. Jäckh disseminated Friedrich Naumann's ideas in the Neckar newspaper , and he also campaigned for the Young Turkish movement under Grand Vizier Talat Pascha , for which he made several trips to Turkey and was received by Kaiser Wilhelm II and the King of Württemberg. Jäckh left the Neckar newspaper in 1912 to take over the chairmanship of the German Werkbund and the German-Turkish Association in Berlin .
Theodor Heuss was succeeded as editor-in-chief in 1912 , now under the publisher Viktor Kraemer junior (1881–1937), who had taken over the newspaper when his father died in 1911. Heuss had been Munich's correspondent since 1902, also came from the circle around Naumann and his leading articles as editor-in-chief were characterized by democratic and humanistic principles. In July 1917 Heuss followed Jäckh to Berlin to join the Werkbund.
From January 1, 1918, Erich Schairer (1887–1956) was editor-in-chief. Like Theodor Heuss, he too had previously been Friedrich Naumann's private secretary. Schairer clearly represented socialist views, which brought him into opposition to the publisher Kraemer, who separated from Schairer in November 1919. After a few years without an editor-in-chief, Heinz Goldammer (1896–1978), previously at the Braunschweigische Landeszeitung, became the new editor-in-chief of Neckar-Zeitung in 1926 . Goldammer, described as liberal-democratic, was seriously injured in the war and preferred to devote himself to the problems of workers.
After the National Socialists came to power, Kraemers Verlag was able to hold out for a few months against the Heilbronn press competition, which had otherwise already been aligned. On November 19, 1933, Kraemer and editor Hans Franke were attacked and mistreated by National Socialists in their apartments. Goldammer escaped another such attack by accident. Kraemer decided to sell the publishing house to the National Socialists on February 2, 1934. Employees who were not loyal to the line, such as editor-in-chief Goldammer and editor Franke, were then dismissed by them.
Neckar newspaper and morning post of the NSDAP 1934 to 1937
After the publishing house was taken over by the NSDAP, the papers Heilbronner Abend-Zeitung and Heilbronner General-Anzeiger , which also appeared there, were discontinued on March 1, 1934. The Neckar-Zeitung continued to appear under Nazi direction in the publishing house of the National Socialist Heilbronner Tagblatt (newly founded in 1932) . From January 1, 1935, the newspaper was entitled Heilbronner Morgenpost , but was then discontinued on July 31, 1937.
literature
- Hans Franke : 200 years of newspaper history in Heilbronn . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn: 23rd publication, Heilbronn 1960, pp. 243-276
- Uwe Jacobi: 250 years of Heilbronn press. History of the media in the Unterland and Hohenlohe 1744–1994 . Verlag Heilbronner Voice, Heilbronn am Neckar 1993, ISBN 3-921923-11-5 ( Heilbronner Voice: book series. Volume 5)