Rhein and Ruhr newspaper
The Rhein- und Ruhrzeitung was a Duisburg newspaper that first appeared on January 1, 1852. For almost nine decades it reported on industry , trade and shipping in the Ruhr estuary until it was discontinued on September 30, 1941.
The forerunner of the newspaper was founded on April 30, 1848 in Mülheim an der Ruhr under the title Wächter an der Ruhr and from 1849 was called Ruhrzeitung . In 1850, after the merger with the Duisburger Zeitung and Kreisblatt , the editorial staff of the newspaper was relocated to Duisburg and the newspaper was renamed the United Ruhr and Duisburger Zeitung . From 1852 the newspaper was called Rhein- und Ruhrzeitung .
During the years of the Prussian constitutional conflict , the social reformer, teacher, philosopher and critical publicist Friedrich Albert Lange wrote sharp articles against the Bismarck government between 1862 and 1864 under the editorship of Wilhelm Schroers. The paper, which is close to the Progressive Party, had to dismiss Lange after several press trials because it became unsustainable for the newspaper.
After the split in the Progressive Party, the newspaper developed into an official organ of the National Liberal Party ; in the 1870s it was regarded as one of the most docile newspapers to the government. It was clearly nationalist . She strongly advocated the passing of the Socialist Laws and took part in the scandal against social democracy . Until the founding of the Duisburger General-Anzeiger (1881) and the Mülheimer Zeitung (1873), the Rhein- und Ruhrzeitung held the de facto local monopoly in the Duisburg and Mülheim daily press.
Before 1914, the Rhein- und Ruhrzeitung was the official publication organ of the cities of Duisburg and Mülheim an der Ruhr, as well as the official organ of the West German inland shipping trade association . In addition to Duisburg and Mülheim, the newspaper was the display for the cities of Ruhrort , Oberhausen and the districts of Dinslaken , Wesel and Moers . The circulation area of the newspaper included the Lower Rhine , the western Ruhr area and the western Lippe zone.
The Rhein- und Ruhrzeitung was owned by the FH Nieten publishing house, based in Duisburg. The newspaper appeared twelve times a week and had the illustrated entertainment paper as a weekly supplement .
Web links
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- Kürschner, Joseph: Handbook of the press. Berlin / Eisenach / Leipzig: Hermann Hillger Verlag, 1902.
- Anniversary edition of the Rhein- und Ruhrzeitung for the 90th anniversary. Duisburg, 1938.
Remarks
- ↑ For more information on the newspaper around 1900, see Kürschner, Joseph: Handbuch der Presse. Berlin / Eisenach / Leipzig: Hermann Hillger Verlag, 1902, Sp. 940