Upper Austrian daily newspaper

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Upper Austrian daily newspaper

language German
publishing company Druckerei Gutenberg (Austria)
First edition 1897/1916
attitude 1987
Article archive Editions digitized by the Austrian National Library : Oberösterreichisches Tagblatt (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / tabfrom the years 1919–1938 (search term "TAB")

The Tagblatt (“organ for the interests of the working people”) was a social democratic daily newspaper. It served the federal state of Upper Austria and appeared from 1916 as the successor organ of the truth! (“Organ for the Dissemination of Social Democratic Principles” founded in 1897) by the Gutenberg publishing house in Linz until the end of 1987 . In 1975 the Tagblatt was renamed the Oberösterreichisches Tagblatt ( Oö Tagblatt ).

history

Until 1945

In addition to the leading daily newspapers in the Upper Austria area, the Tagespost and the Linzer Volksblatt , the truth became apparent from 1897 ! published - it was intended for the working class in Upper Austria. Due to the increasing number of editions, it became necessary to have its own print shop for the initially externally printed sheet, and in 1910 the Spittelwiese 5 property was acquired and the Gutenberg-Weiguny & Comp. founded. From 1911 Josef Dametz was co-editor of the daily newspaper. On January 1, 1916, the Social Democrats' daily newspaper appeared for the first time under the name Tagblatt . From 1919 the future mayor of Linz, Ernst Koref, wrote acting reviews for the newspaper.

In 1929, sales of the newspaper, which was initially spoiled for success, collapsed because many Social Democrats could no longer afford the newspaper. When the civil war broke out on February 12, 1934, the publisher's daily and weekly newspapers were temporarily suspended until March 31, 1934. On July 17 of the same year, the printing works with the address Spittelwiese 5 (at the same time an alarm station of the Schutzbund ) was confiscated for the first time and placed under a "trustee administrative commission". In the context of this commission, the New Age , which was initially assigned to the Heimwehr and later National Socialist, was founded. In June 1937 this sheet was discontinued.

When the National Socialists came to power on March 12, 1938, the publishing "Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Gutenberg - Weiguny & Co" was partially integrated into the NS-Gauverlag Oberdonau as the "NS-Druckerei und Verlag Linz" and thus confiscated a second time. The printing machines were reused, sold or scrapped. From 1946 onwards, this led to lengthy restitution negotiations between Landesverlag and Gutenberg.

With the takeover of the printing house by the National Socialists , from then on appeared as the successor organ of the Tagblatt der Arbeitersturm ("Kampfblatt der Nationalsozialisten Arbeiter und An employee of German Austria"). The then editor-in-chief of the Tagblatt, Franz Blum, is arrested and taken to the Dachau concentration camp . Former editors were not taken on because of "political unreliability". According to Hans Eisenrauch (managing director in the 1980s), it would probably not have been her wish to be integrated into this newspaper. The workforce of the printing company was retained, however, they now printed the storm of workers "in tears" until the end of June 1938. The new official daily newspaper of Upper Danube was the Volksstimme from July 1938 , not to be confused with the communist Volksstimme (Austria) .

1945-1987

On October 8, 1945, the Tagblatt (“newspaper of the creative people in town and country”) appears again for the first time after the end of the war , printed not in Spittelwiese 5, but in the newly established “Democratic Printing and Publishing Company Oberösterreich mbH”, actually the Wimmer printing company (today's Wimmer Medien ). After the end of the Second World War, the occupying powers regulated the Upper Austrian press landscape. The daily newspaper 'suffers' from this : until the end of 1945 only three issues were published per week, an early editorial deadline, insufficient paper allocation and a limited circulation of 40,000 copies made it difficult to establish the party newspaper.

From October 1, 1948, the newspaper was again printed in-house at Spittelwiese 5 "because it was becoming more and more difficult to get the necessary typesetting capacity for the growing number of newspapers in the Wimmer print shop ". At the end of the 1940s, the newspaper had a daily circulation of around 28,000. At the management level of the printing company were u. a. Ernst Koref and Edmund Aigner , from 1951 Ludwig Bernaschek also worked.

The Gutenberg print shop on Anastasius-Grün-Straße

From 1951, due to the lack of space in Spittelwiese 5 , the daily newspaper was produced in the newly built printing house on Anastasius-Grün- Strasse. The building was "partially financed by a so-called 'Gutenberg loan' from readers and party members". From this point on, the circulation of the newspaper (1951: 22,500 copies) "will never increase again (except 1985/1986), it will only decrease." From 1961 onwards, the technical expansion of the printing company made it possible to give the daily paper the bright color red . When the Kronen Zeitung entered the Upper Austrian press stage in 1968 , the numbers of the Tagblatt were poor: 19,000 subscriptions , approx. 300 copies on sale.

In 1985 the daily newspaper switched to small format. The newspaper was initially kept alive through subsidies, and in 1987 the Arbeiter-Zeitung took over the publication, with 17,700 subscriptions. The long-time editor-in-chief Hermann Czekal died in July 2008. The traditional Gutenberg printing company still exists - 90 employees print around 3,000 t of paper annually.

Editors-in-chief

  • Franz Lettner
  • Franz Blum
  • Alois Oberhummer (1945–1946)
  • Alois Wimberger (1946)
  • Ludwig Eldersch
  • Egon Bodinger (4 / 1948–1 / 1949)
  • Richard Neumann (11/1948–12 / 1949)
  • Nikolaus Negrelli (1949–11 / 1964)
  • Hermann Czekal (1964-12 / 1985)
  • Gerald Höchtler (1 / 1986-10 / 1991)

literature

  • Hermann Czekal: Upper Austrian daily newspaper. In: Franz Ivan et al. (Ed.): 200 years of daily newspaper in Austria. 1783-1983. Austrian National Library et al., Vienna 1983, pp. 253–256.
  • Hans Eisenrauch: Gutenberg printing works. 1910-2000. Gutenberg Advertising Society, Linz 2000.
  • Michaela Gustenau: With brown ink. National Socialist press and their journalists in Upper Austria. (1933–1945) (= contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria. Vol. 13). OÖLA, Linz 1992, ISBN 3-900313-53-9 .
  • Klemens Pilsl: "Workers' Storm ". The Linzer NS-Zeitung in its historical context, taking into account the National Socialist image of women. Diploma thesis at the University of Linz, Linz 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willibald Katzinger : Little Linz City History. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7917-2132-3 , p. 103.
  2. ↑ Hermann Czekal: Upper Austrian daily newspaper. In: Franz Ivan et al. (Ed.): 200 years of daily newspaper in Austria. 1783-1983. Austrian National Library et al., Vienna 1983, p. 255.
  3. ↑ City! Magazine. Issue 82 from May 2009, ZDB -ID 2401684-6 .
  4. ^ State of Upper Austria biography Ernst Koref , accessed on November 11, 2012.
  5. ↑ Inez Kykal, Karl R. Stadler : Richard Bernaschek . A rebel odyssey. Europaverlag, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-203-50572-X , p. 276.
  6. ↑ Michaela Gustenau: With brown ink. National Socialist press and their journalists in Upper Austria. (1933–1945) (= contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria. Vol. 13). OÖLA, Linz 1992, ISBN 3-900313-53-9 , p. 88.
  7. ↑ Hans Eisenrauch: Druckerei Gutenberg. 1910-2000. Gutenberg-Werbering-Gesellschaft, Linz 2000, p. 88.
  8. ↑ Hans Eisenrauch: Druckerei Gutenberg. 1910-2000. Gutenberg-Werbering-Gesellschaft, Linz 2000, p. 87.
  9. ↑ Erwin H. Aglas quoted in: Klemens Pilsl: “Arbeitersturm”. The Linzer NS-Zeitung in its historical context, taking into account the National Socialist image of women. Linz 2004, p. 39.
  10. ↑ Brigitte Kepplinger , Josef Weidenholzer : The Reconstruction of Social Democracy in Linz 1945–1950. In: Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster (Eds.): Denazification and Reconstruction in Linz (= Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz 1995. ). Archive of the City of Linz, Linz 1996, ISBN 3-900388-49-0 , pp. 13–67, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  11. ↑ Hermann Czekal: Upper Austrian daily newspaper. In: Franz Ivan et al. (Ed.): 200 years of daily newspaper in Austria. 1783-1983. Austrian National Library et al., Vienna 1983, p. 253.
  12. ↑ Hans Eisenrauch: Druckerei Gutenberg. 1910-2000. Gutenberg-Werbering-Gesellschaft, Linz 2000, p. 112 ff.
  13. ↑ Hermann Czekal: Upper Austrian daily newspaper. In: Franz Ivan et al. (Ed.): 200 years of daily newspaper in Austria. 1783-1983. Austrian National Library et al., Vienna 1983, p. 254.
  14. ^ Franz Ivan et al. (Ed.): 200 years of daily newspaper in Austria. 1783-1983. Austrian National Library et al., Vienna 1983, p. 255.
  15. ↑ Hans Eisenrauch: Druckerei Gutenberg. 1910-2000. Gutenberg-Werbering-Gesellschaft, Linz 2000, p. 124.
  16. ↑ Hans Eisenrauch: Druckerei Gutenberg. 1910-2000. Gutenberg-Werbering-Gesellschaft, Linz 2000, p. 145.
  17. ↑ Former Tagblatt editor-in-chief has died. In: Die Presse , July 15, 2008.
  18. ↑ City! Magazine. Issue 82 from May 2009, p. 63, accessed May 7, 2009.