Oberhessische Zeitung (Marburg)
| Oberhessische Zeitung
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| description | former German daily newspaper |
| First edition | 1867 |
| Frequency of publication | several times a week |
| Editor-in-chief | Carl Hitzeroth |
| editor | Carl Hitzeroth |
| Web link | unavailable |
The Oberhessische newspaper was from 1867 to 1945 and from 1949 to 1951 in the city of Marburg widespread and surrounding communities daily newspaper .
The Oberhessische Zeitung was founded in 1867 by the Koch family in Marburg.
Towards the end of the Second World War , on March 28, 1945, the day when the city of Marburg was surrendered to the American troops without a fight , the newspaper was discontinued. The editor-in-chief at that time was Carl Hitzeroth, the son-in-law of Johann August Koch, the last editor of the founding family.
After the war, Hitzeroth had to answer for his activities under National Socialism . In February 1949 he was classified by a court as a fellow traveler and had to pay a fine of 1,000 marks . After this chapter was closed for Hitzeroth and the license requirement was also lifted in September 1949 , he published the Oberhessische Zeitung again.
In 1951, the Oberhessische Zeitung merged with the Marburger Presse , which was one of the first licensed newspapers to be created in 1945 to form the Oberhessische Presse . The proposal to merge the two Marburg newspapers had come some time before from Hitzeroth, who died in November 1950. The further negotiations were then taken over by his son Otto. After Hermann Bauer and Karl Bremer, the publishers of the Marburger Presse, agreed, the new newspaper appeared for the first time on July 1, 1951, with a title that united the two former newspaper heads. The Oberhessische Presse had an initial circulation of 25,000 copies.
An Oberhessische Zeitung is being published in Alsfeld today.