Rheinische Landeszeitung

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The Rheinische Landeszeitung was a German daily newspaper with an editorial office in Düsseldorf that appeared from 1935 to 1945.

history

The predecessor of the Rheinische Landeszeitung was the Volksparole , which was founded on July 1, 1930 as the first NSDAP newspaper in Düsseldorf. This had later acquired the Düsseldorfer Zeitung , which has been published since 1745, and since 1926 Düsseldorfer Stadtanzeiger , and was then sold in 1930 under the name Volksparole. Düsseldorf city gazette. Official organ of the NSDAP was merged. The Stadtanzeiger employees were not taken on.

On February 10, 1935, the Rheinische Landeszeitung went out of the popular slogan. Popular slogan. Official journal of the NSDAP , which gave as its task the "maintenance of reporting on political, economic and cultural issues from the Rhine-Maas-Scheldt estuary (Belgium and Holland)". The editor-in-chief kept his position, but only a part of the employees of the people 's slogan was taken over. The circulation for Düsseldorf Stadt had increased from around 48,500 (1930) to around 61,500 (1935). The circulation of the complete edition then increased from 187,000 (1935) to 227,000 copies. This means that the Rheinische Landeszeitung , which has been trading under the shorter title since 1939, has been the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in Germany after the Völkischer Beobachter since 1935 .

Viktor Muckel , after the war deputy managing director (publishing director) of the FAZ , was temporarily the newspaper's publishing director.

literature

Elisabeth Rothering: The “Handelsblatt” during the license period . Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 17. Also dissertation Münster 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Düsseldorfer Zeitung: political entertainment and advertising sheet, industrial publishing house, printed in the Stahl'schen Buchdruckerei. (Published: 1745–1823, June 30; 1825, July 1–1827, December 17; 1829–1926, May 31 - the newspaper is in the process of digitization) , ULB Düsseldorf, accessed on May 11, 2019
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Rothe Ring: The "Handelsblatt" on the license period . Handelsblatt publishing group, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Date of changeover to the new title after the entry in the newspaper information system of the Berlin State Library. Rest after Elisabeth Rothering: The “Handelsblatt” during the license period . Handelsblatt publishing group, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 17.
  4. ^ Friedemann Siering: Newspaper for Germany. The founding generation of the Frankfurter Allgemeine. In: Lutz Hachmeister , Friedemann Siering (ed.): The gentlemen journalists. The elite of the German press after 1945. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47597-3 , pp. 55–56 u. Kurt Pritzkoleit: Who owns Germany . Kurt Desch publishing house, Vienna / Munich / Basel 1957, p. 223.

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