Potsdam daily newspaper

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The Potsdam daily was an independent daily for Potsdam with a national-bourgeois-conservative orientation until the end of the Second World War . Today the Potsdam local edition of the Märkische Allgemeine appears under this title. The sold circulation is 20,592 copies, a decrease of 53.5 percent since 1998.

history

The first issue appeared on January 1, 1901 in the A. W. Hayn's Erben printing works as a continuation of the Potsdamer Intellektiven-Blatt , which was published in September 1850. At that time, the owner was the royal Prussian councilor Curt Gerber (1855–1921). After his death, his son Waldemar Gerber (1888–1968) took over the publishing house and newspaper. In 1929 it had a circulation of 23,000 copies and called itself the "largest newspaper in Havelland ". Even after the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the paper remained national and bourgeois, now as the “home newspaper for town and country”. The circulation rose to 40,000 copies by 1940. After 1940, the newspaper's authors also included the future Federal President, Theodor Heuss , who wrote there under a pseudonym.

On February 4, 1945 the publishing house of A. W. Hayn's heirs in Berlin was completely bombed out . The newspaper continued to appear in editions with mostly four pages. It was not until after heavy air raids on Potsdam on April 14th and 15th that the Potsdam daily had to be suspended for several days. Two emergency editions came out on only one page, the last probably on April 20, 1945. A few days later the Red Army entered Potsdam.

In 1946 the company was subordinated to a sequester , and in Potsdam - at that time in the Soviet occupation zone  - on February 29, 1948, the printing works, publishing house, bookstore, all land and buildings, including the private ones of the Gerber family, were expropriated and converted into so-called public property.

In November 1954 the Potsdamer Tageszeitung came out again - with the place of publication Speyer , but printed in Berlin. Waldemar Gerber drew as its editor. It appeared twice a month and was intended to "build a bridge between Potsdamers and Brandenburgers in East and West" (W. Gerber). Their publication was discontinued with the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

Today the Potsdam local edition of the Märkische Allgemeine appears under this title.

Edition

The Potsdamer daily newspaper is one of the German daily newspapers with the greatest loss of circulation in recent years. The number of copies sold has fallen by 53.5 percent since 1998. It is currently 20,592 copies. This corresponds to a decrease of 23,667 units. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 89.4 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

literature

  • Hans Zappe: Greif and Adler: A piece of Prussia. About becoming an open-shop . Hayn's heirs, Potsdam / Berlin 1937
  • Hans Wilde: 175 years of AW Hayn's Erben, printing and publishing house Berlin . AW Hayn's heirs, Berlin 1969
  • Klaus Scheel: The “Potsdamer Tageszeitung”, 86th year - 1935. A newspaper in the third year of the Third Reich . In: Dietrich Eichholtz (Ed.): Persecution, everyday life, resistance: Brandenburg in the Nazi era; Studies and documents . Volk und Welt, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-353-00991-4 , pp. 113-138

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
  2. ^ Potsdamer Intellektiven-Blatt , September 17, 1850 to vol. 51, December 31, 1900
  3. ↑ References in: Theodor Heuss: the literary figure; Bibliography of writings and speeches […] Ed. By the Württemberg Library Society, Vorwerk, Stuttgart 1954
  4. ↑ Headline: Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels : “To be loyal and brave, that means victory!” , Potsdamer Tageszeitung, emergency edition, No. 89 of April 20, 1945
  5. ↑ according to IVW , ( details on ivw.eu )
  6. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  7. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )

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