Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung
The Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung was printed in Essen from 1883 to 1944 .
The newspaper printed by GD Baedeker Verlag in Essen had the following names: from 1738 to 1762 the latest Essendische Nachrichten of state and learned matters , from 1768 to 1798 Essendische Zeitung by Staats u. War affairs from 1799 to 1859 Allgemeine Politische Nachrichten from 1860 to 1882 Essener Zeitung and from 1883 from Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung .
In 1923 the printing house on Sachsenstrasse was built as the Reismann-Grone-Haus . The facade was designed by Emil Fahrenkamp in 1926 .
The historian Stefan Frech describes the RWZ next to the liberal "Kölner Zeitung" as the central information sheet of the West German economy, which was mainly read by the middle and upper social classes of the educated and economic bourgeoisie of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area .
Political orientation
Stefan Frech characterizes the RWZ as an "extremely national racist-anti-Semitic daily newspaper". Since the mid-1890s, the RWZ has openly spread the thesis of the superiority of the "German race" which is a master people and has the right to displace "inferior people" for social Darwinist reasons to create living space and to achieve world domination .
As early as 1924 she demanded that the right-wing parties must nationalize the workers and that a strong leader was needed, for whom she had already favored Hitler and the NSDAP.
On June 20, 1926, the RWZ reported that Hitler spoke in Essen at the instigation of West German economists. Invitations to Rhenish-Westphalian industrialists were distributed, which circumvented a Prussian ban on Hitler's public speeches. This event was the prelude to a year and a half of Hitler's courtship for the region's industry, which the RWZ reported on.
In 1932 the NSDAP's propaganda was aimed at workers and promoted the seven-hour working day. In the summer of 1932, the chairman of the mining association, Ernst Brandi , had approved Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor. In mid-September 1932 he pushed through the employers' dominated supervisory board of the RWZ to dismiss the supporter of the NSDAP and editor of the RWZ Theodor Reismann-Grone rather than allow him to fill the editorial office with NSDAP supporters.
The Prussian strike was welcomed by the RWZ.
In August 1932 she supported Hitler's demand for the Reich Chancellor post and the central ministries, and advocated full command for the leaders Hitler and Alfred Hugenberg .
On January 29, 1933, the RWZ reported what it had already reported after Papen's resignation that the only option now was to commission Hitler to form a government.
The RWZ was financially controlled by the mining association. In early 1932, the RWZ and the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung together received around 60,000–70,000 marks a month from the Ruhrlade .
From May 12, 1945, the Ruhr Zeitung was printed in the printing house on Sachsenstrasse .
Individual evidence
- ^ Emil Fahrenkamp
- ↑ Stefan Frech: Hitler's pioneer? Theodor Reismann-Grone . Paderborn 2009, p. 131 f.
- ^ Frech, p. 131.
- ↑ Frech, p. 120 ff.
- ↑ Frech, p. 242.
- ^ Henry Ashby Turner : Die Großunternehmer und der Aufstieg Hitler ("German big business and the rise of Hitler"). Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88680-143-8 , p. 341.
- ↑ Frech, p. 307.
- ↑ Frech, p. 308 f.
- ^ Turner, p. 389.
- ^ Turner, p. 364.
- ^ Letter from Karl Haniel to Paul Reusch dated January 12, 1932 in the Reusch estate. Klaus Wernecke, Peter Heller: The forgotten leader Alfred Hugenberg . Hamburg 1982, p. 133.