Osnabrücker Tageblatt

The Meinders & Elstermann publishing house - here part of the publishing complex - published the Osnabrücker Tageblatt until it merged with the Neue Tagespost to form the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung in 1967

The Osnabrücker Tageblatt was a German regional daily newspaper. It appeared intermittently in the 1940s from 1884 to 1967 in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony) and the surrounding area. The newspaper was considered bourgeois democratic.

history

As early as 1848 there was a daily newspaper in Osnabrück under the title "Osnabrücker Tageblatt". It appeared with the subtitle “by and for everyone” and was discontinued after almost five years.

Adolf Meinders and Gustav Elstermann founded the Meinders & Elstermann (M & E) publishing house on October 1, 1884. The headquarters of the publishing house was in Möserstraße. He published the Osnabrücker Tageblatt, the first edition of which was distributed free of charge in the city on October 1, 1884. Gustav Elstermann had worked as an address book publisher until then. The “address book for the city and field of Osnabrück” was published in 1873; it still exists today under a different name.

In 1889 the publishing house moved from Möserstraße to Große Straße. The Meinders & Elstermann publishing house was also active as a bookbinding , commercial printing, and forms and book publisher. The newspaper, books and forms, as well as commercial work was in hand composition done. The publisher received a rotary printing press that printed four pages in one operation in 1892.

1901, Verlag abolished the first typographer - setting machines , which increased the contract capacity.

In 1926 a new rotary printing press with a color printing unit was purchased.

During the Nazi era , the NSDAP put pressure on publishers to sell the newspaper. In 1937 the Osnabrücker Tageblatt took over the "Osnabrücker Zeitung". The Tageblatt appeared from then on with the subtitle Osnabrücker Zeitung - Osnabrück Public Ads .

In 1943 the Osnabrücker Tageblatt was merged with the NSDAP publication Neue Volksblätter and was given the title "Neue Volksblätter - Osnabrücker Tageblatt". The chief editor Föge was an NSDAP functionary and headed the local group Eversburg.

The city of Osnabrück was badly damaged by bombing during World War II. The publishing house on Grosse Strasse, other company buildings on Hase and Möserstrasse were damaged or destroyed.

In 1949 the publisher was again granted a license to publish a daily newspaper. The Osnabrücker Tageblatt first appeared again on November 1, 1949. In 1950 the newspaper had an average circulation of 20,000 copies a day.

In 1951 the new building of the publishing house on Grosse Strasse began.

In the 1950s, a new building for a new rotary press was built. The new press was a 32-page multicolor press. It went into operation in 1956.

In 1967 the previously competing newspapers "Osnabrücker Tageblatt" and " Neue Tagespost ", which was published in the Fromm printing and publishing house of the publisher Leo Victor Fromm , were merged. They appeared from October 2, 1967 under the title Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ).

The newspaper's separate preliminary stages were retained until 2003 in the M&E headquarters on Grosse Strasse and in the Fromm headquarters on Breiten Gang, where the Neue Tagespost was published.

The Meinders & Elstermann publishing house in Belm

The publishing house M & E celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2009. It is in the fifth generation of the family and is managed by Jan Dirk Elstermann as managing director. Today the company is located in the Osnabrück suburb of Belm . The focus of the publishing work is currently regional literature, magazines, city maps and still address books.

Well-known editors and employees

The writer Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) worked from March 1921 as editor of the newspaper and wrote theater reviews.
Gustav Lübbe (1918–1995), later publisher of Bastei Lübbe Verlag, was the feature editor of the newspaper until 1953 .