Latest newspaper
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| description | daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Frankfurter Societät |
| First edition | April 18, 1931 |
| attitude | October 29, 1942 |
| Frequency of publication | 5 to 7 times a week |
| Editor-in-chief | Wilhelm Hollbach |
| editor | Frankfurter Societät |
| ZDB | 2574514-1 |
The Latest Newspaper - Illustrated Daily Newspaper with Insurance (later Illustrated Daily Newspaper with Sunday Post ) was a regional German daily newspaper published in Frankfurt am Main from April 18, 1931 to October 29, 1942 .
history
The newspaper appeared in the same publishing house as the much older Frankfurter Zeitung , namely the Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei . It was unique in the German publishing landscape in that life insurance was automatically taken out with its subscription . That is why the first page of the newspaper's imprint read :
- "Every subscriber and his / her spouse are insured with Deutscher Lloyd Lebensversicherungsbank AG, Leipzig C1, Markt 2. [...] Deaths must be reported immediately, if possible within 4 days."
The insurance premium varied depending on the length of the subscription, and the insurance took effect after a month.
The first issue from Saturday, April 18, 1931, presented itself on its front page as a “newspaper for everyone”, especially women and people in the Rhine-Main area, and advertised:
- “The time in which we live brought more upheaval than any chapter in history. The new age also calls for a new type of newspaper. The latest newspaper fulfills this requirement. "
The first issues comprised between 10 and 14 pages, starting with politics and sport and ending with women, children and fashion topics. The last issues were only four pages. The last issue of the Neue Zeitung appeared on October 29, 1942, on the first page only dealt with war topics and headlined:
- “Telegram from the Fiihrer's headquarters. The Fiihrer's congratulations to Viktor Emanuel and the Duce "
In the weeks after the National Socialists came to power, the Neue Zeitung followed a democratic course and condemned the dismissal of several social democratic officials in Hesse, for example in the edition of February 13, 1933 :
- “District President Ehrler is one of those men who, through their drive and skills, have risen from metalworker to high and political state office. Nothing would be more unfair than that if one wanted to accuse the now removed president that it was the 'party book' to which he owed his position. [...] The district president as a 'political official' has now fallen victim to the new political course. "
In the same issue, the newspaper reported on the re-election of Walldorf mayor Adam Jourdan (SPD) "with an overwhelming majority" and criticized Goering's leave of absence for another high official, the Kassel district president Ferdinand Friedensburg . In the Darmstadt police report of February 12, the newspaper noted the reactions of SA and SS members to "insults" by communists: The National Socialists used firearms, injured several people and shot an innocent young man who was on his way to the post office .
Just a few months later, the latest newspaper, like all other German media, was synchronized . In the August 8, 1933 edition, the editors did not criticize the Hamburg Senate for having the Heinrich Heine memorial removed from the city park and “stored in some shed”, but rather noted that it was “a thorn in the side of many” .
In April 1934 the automatic insurance was discontinued, the subtitle was Illustrierte Tageszeitung with Sunday mail , and the paper appeared seven days a week. The editor-in-chief of the newest newspaper was Wilhelm Hollbach .
The almost completely surviving copies in the publishing archive (today Frankfurter Societäts-Medien GmbH) were transferred to microfilm in 2011 in cooperation with the university library of Frankfurt's Goethe University and then digitized. Almost all of the newspaper can now be read on the library's server.
Web links
Digital copies of the newest newspaper at the University of Frankfurt
Individual evidence
- ↑ A telegram from Adolf Hitler to the leader of fascist Italy, King Viktor Emanuel III, was printed in the text . and Benito Mussolini (Il Duce).
- ↑ Latest newspaper, February 13, 1933, p. 5
- ↑ Latest newspaper, August 8, 1933, p. 1
- ↑ Press release of the Frankfurt University Library from March 6, 2012