Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung

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Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung.svg
description German daily newspaper
publishing company Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung GmbH
First edition September 5, 1945
Frequency of publication Monday to Saturday
Sold edition 74,746 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Inge Höltzcke, Klaus Welzel
editor Inge Höltzcke, Joachim Knorr, Michael Gindele
executive Director Inge Höltzcke, Joachim Knorr
Web link www.rnz.de
Publishing house in Heidelberger Neugasse

The Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung ( RNZ ) appears in Heidelberg and is the regional dominant newspaper . In addition to Heidelberg, the circulation area extends to the three main editions , Sinsheim , Mosbach and Buchen, as well as eleven local editions below. The newspaper is still owned by the family today. The sold circulation is 74,746 copies, a decrease of 28.5 percent since 1998.

history

First edition of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung

The RNZ was founded under license from the Information Control Division on September 5, 1945 by Rudolf Agricola , Theodor Heuss and Hermann Knorr . It was the successor to the Süddeutsche Mitteilungen , which had been published by the Psychological Warfare Division of the 12th American Army Group . At that time, the three editors represented the most important political currents for the occupation forces: Liberals (Heuss), Social Democrats (Knorr) and Communists (Agricola); the CDU had not yet been founded in September 1945. With its early founding in Heidelberg, which is almost undamaged, the RNZ was the third newspaper in Germany to be approved after the Second World War , after the Aachener Nachrichten and the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Heuss left the newspaper on September 24th because he was appointed Minister of Culture for Württemberg-Baden . But he still contributed articles as a freelancer for some time. Criticism of the restoration and integration with the West in the three zones occupied by the Western powers and openly expressed doubts about the sustainability of democratic development (see quote) led two years later to the military government of the US-American zone of occupation on August 31, 1948, again granting Agricola the license withdrew and this transferred to the Soviet zone of occupation and accepted a lectureship at the University of Halle. On April 19, 1952, after lengthy disputes, Knorr also took over the share of the business from Theodor Heuss, who was no longer allowed to run a commercial company due to his election as Federal President in 1949 in accordance with Article 55 of the Basic Law, and Knorr remained the only publisher and owner.

The RNZ, which was more left-wing in its early days ( Helmut Kohl refused to give the newspaper an interview because he was annoyed by articles critical of the CDU in the 1960s ) is now considered to be conservative , but it does represent it left positions on some issues. The numerous regional sections are an essential part of the RNZ and its success in asserting itself against previously or today still existing competing products in their area of ​​distribution. However, there has been an advertising community for several years with the other two major newspapers in the region, Mannheimer Morgen and Ludwigshafener Rheinpfalz .

Edition

The Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 2.3% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 3.8%. It is currently 74,746 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 91.2 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

expenditure

Since June 1, 2006, all local editions are also available as e-paper editions. In 2009, the RNZ took over the Eberbacher Zeitung . The Heidelberg edition was split on February 1, 2010 and a new Heidelberg Region edition was created for the surrounding communities near Heidelberg.

Leaf structure

The specialty of the RNZ is that the local section always starts on page 3, i.e. in the first book - even after the major layout reform at the end of April 2005. This means that the RNZ has almost a unique selling point among German local newspapers. The local sizes vary, mostly four pages per regional edition.

RNZ E-Paper has been the digital edition of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung since 2005 (complete text and image-identical PDF files). It is accessible by subscription.

Between 2007 and 2011, registered bloggers were able to publish their own posts with photos and links on the Wordpress- based RNZ blog and were given their own blog internet address .

Web links

Commons : Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
  2. according to IVW ( online )
  3. according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  4. according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 34.8 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 43"  E