New Wiener Tagblatt

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Schematic elevation of the production building, 1931

The Neue Wiener Tagblatt was a daily newspaper that appeared in Vienna from 1867 to 1945 . It was one of the highest-circulation newspapers in Austria before 1938.

history

The newspaper was founded by Eduard Mayer as the successor to the Vienna Journal . The first edition appeared on March 10, 1867, the year of the settlement with Hungary and the adoption of the so-called December constitution, which was valid until 1918 . On July 13, 1867, the publisher Moritz Szeps , who had left the newspaper Morgen-Post in the dispute, took over the management. From 1870 he supported Josef Schöffel with a campaign in his successful fight for the Vienna Woods . Szeps' connection to Crown Prince Rudolf meant that anonymized political texts of the Crown Prince could repeatedly appear in the paper, in which he advocated the liberal, progressive development of Austria.

Szeps remained the sole owner and publisher of the paper until May 15, 1872, then brought the paper into the Steyrermühl-Verlag, which he co-founded in 1872, and remained the publisher of the newspaper as a shareholder until October 15, 1886. However , in the opinion of the other shareholders, his pointed and Western European-oriented liberalism no longer corresponded to the zeitgeist in the 1880s, which is why they urged Szeps to leave the AG.

From 1874 onwards, the newspaper was the highest-circulation paper in Vienna and was of national importance. It was German-liberal and anti-Marxist, but did not develop a clear position in the monarchy on the emerging mass parties of the Christian Socials and the Social Democrats .

During the First Republic , the paper published by the Steyrermühl Group became the political mouthpiece of Rudolf Sieghart , the autocratic head of the Bodencreditanstalt that Steyrermühl financed. The editorial team supported the Heimwehr and the policies of the Christian Social Party. This did not change after the collapse of the Bodencreditanstalt in October 1929 and Sieghart's withdrawal.

The elimination of parliament in March 1933 was welcomed by the newspaper, despite expressing concerns about the preservation of freedom of expression . After the February uprising in 1934, the newspaper refrained from making any statements in the corporate state dictatorship .

Expropriation and restructuring in 1938

After Austria was annexed to National Socialist Germany in March 1938, the newspaper was immediately made available to the Nazi propaganda apparatus. Editor-in-chief Emil Löbl was relieved on the evening of March 11, 1938, before the Wehrmacht marched in , and replaced by a Nazi party member. On July 27, 1938, the owners of the newspaper had to sell the paper to a Berlin trust company, which on September 15, 1938 transferred it to the new Ostmärkische Zeitungsverlagsgesellschaft , behind whose front man the NSDAP publishing house, Franz-Eher-Verlag , was behind .

On January 31, 1939, the Neue Wiener Journal was discontinued and incorporated into the Neue Wiener Tagblatt together with the traditional newspaper Neue Freie Presse . The last edition of the newspaper appeared on April 7, 1945, when the Battle of Vienna began, with which the Red Army liberated the city from the Nazi regime.

Tagblatt archive

The extensive Tagblatt archive was the only newspaper archive in Vienna that survived the war. In 1945 it was initially taken over by the communist Globus publishing house , which was designated by the Soviet occupying power as the user of Steyrermühl structures, and then taken over by the Chamber for Workers and Employees Vienna. The Tagblatt archive has been in the holdings of the Vienna Library in the City Hall since 2002 .

Employee

Important employees included Hermann Bahr , Werner Bergengruen , Franz Karl Ginzkey , Ludwig Karpath , Ernst Mach , Eduard Pötzl , Heinrich Pollak , Karl Tschuppik and Fritz Sänger .

Editor-in-Chief:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Felber et al., Österreichische Historikerkommission (Ed.): Economics of Aryanization. Part 2: Economic sectors, branches, case studies , R. Oldenbourg, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7029-0516-2, Part 2, p. 378 ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / books.google.at

literature

  • Irmtraut Donner: The feature section of the Neues Wiener Tagblatt between the two world wars . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1951.
  • Helmut W. Lang (Ed.): Austrian Retrospective Bibliography (ORBI). Row 2: Austrian Newspapers 1492–1945. Volume 3: Helmut W. Lang, Ladislaus Lang, Wilma Buchinger: Bibliography of Austrian newspapers 1621–1945. N-Z. Edited at the Austrian National Library. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23385-X , pp. 63-64.
  • Neues Wiener Tagblatt, special supplement to May 31, 1931, p. 75 ANNO

Web links

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