Riga on Sunday

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The Riga on Sunday was a German-language weekly newspaper in Latvia . It appeared every Sunday in the Baltic publishing house, first on December 18, 1927, and was renamed Rigasche Post on September 30, 1934 . The business and editorial offices were located in Riga at Dzirnavu iela 57. The publication of the newspaper ended in the course of the resettlement of the Baltic Germans . The last edition appeared on November 26, 1939.

history

The founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of Riga am Sonntag was the German journalist Robert Alexander Riedel (* 1893, † 1945). The newspaper was known as the "paper of the common man" or "mass entertainment paper". 41.5% of the working Baltic Germans are said to have counted among the readership . Initially, the editorial team was positioned politically on the left , but in 1931 at the latest it turned to the right . Historians describe the style of Riga am Sonntag as a "conglomerate of ethnic renewal phrases and naive Nazi belief."

Towards the end of 1933, the paper opened completely to the so-called Baltic German National Community from 1928 onwards. This political change was subsidized by German Baltic industrialists and was initiated by the publicist Hans von Rimscha , who had previously published regular articles in Riga am Sonntag under the pseudonym "Germanicus" . Under his aegis , the newspaper was renamed Rigasche Post in September 1934 , while maintaining the year and edition count (No. 409, last issue of Riga am Sonntag ; No. 410, first issue of Rigasche Post ).

After the coup d'état in Latvia on May 15, 1934 , the editorial staff actively promoted propaganda for the authoritarian regime of Kārlis Ulmanis .

Editing (selection)

  • Robert Alexander Riedel (Editor-in-Chief)
  • Hans von Rimscha (permanent employee from autumn 1933, foreign policy)
  • Harry Schiller (domestic politics)
  • Paul Grünberg (Local)
  • Walter Sadowsky (Economy)
  • Magarete Held (reviews)
  • Elmar Grünberg (feature section)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Title information Riga am Sonntag magazine database , accessed on January 19, 2020.
  2. ↑ Title information Rigasche Post magazine database , accessed on January 21, 2020.
  3. ↑ Latvijas Vēstnesis - Roberta Rīdela Latvijas Republikas oficiālais izdevums Latvijas Vēstnesis, accessed January 19, 2020.
  4. ↑ Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich. Volume 1. Böhlau Verlag, 2001, pp. 199-200.
  5. ↑ Title information Riga am Sonntag magazine database, accessed on January 19, 2020.
  6. ↑ Hans Patze (Ed.): Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte, Volume 118. Gesamtverein der Deutschen Geschichts- und Altertumsvereine , 1982, p. 733.
  7. ^ Propaganda of the authoritarian regime in W. Riegel: There is only one closed state community, 1936 Herder Institute (Marburg) , accessed on January 21, 2020.
  8. ^ Propaganda of the authoritarian regime with Hans von Rimscha: Der Neuaufbau des Staats, 1936 Herder Institute (Marburg), accessed on January 21, 2020.
  9. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Schiller, Harry. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  10. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Sadowsky, Walter. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  11. ^ Institute for Newspaper Science (Ed.): Handbuch der Weltpresse. Armanen-Verlag, 1937, p. 268.