Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein

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Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein
The Wendelstein newspaper head
description Daily newspaper (from 1901)
discontinued June 15, 1937
re-established October 1, 1949
First edition July 1, 1871
attitude March 15, 1951

The Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein was a newspaper that appeared in Rosenheim from 1871 to 1937 and from 1949 to 1951 . Until the 1930s, it was considered one of the most important Catholic-patriotic newspapers in Upper Bavaria with a full editorial team .

history

The beginnings

According to the infallibility dogma that Pope Pius IX. Had announced in 1870, the tensions between the supporters of the national liberal and the conservative sentiments increased. In the industrial and trading town of Rosenheim, liberalism was much more popular than in the country. Catholic-conservative circles founded the newspaper Der Wendelstein in 1871 as the second newspaper for the city and the district of Rosenheim alongside the Rosenheimer Anzeiger, which had existed since 1855 . The newspaper Der Wendelstein with the subtitle “Katholisches Volksblatt für das Bavarian Oberland” appeared for the first time in July 1871. A trial edition advertised the subscription to the new newspaper: “Around the tall, magnificent Wendelstein lives a loyal, courageous, strong, well Catholic and good Bavarian people. If it picks up a newspaper, it may not swallow the dust of dissolute enlightenment and false progress, but rather it may hear and read the pure, honest teaching. That is why it has decided to create a newspaper in which it can find the language it speaks itself and the attitudes it is filled with. ”The newspaper, which was initially edited and printed in Munich , was taken over in 1873 by the clergyman Benno Gasteiger . The newspaper was close to the Patriotic Farmers' Association in Tuntenhausen . With the Rosenheim indicator , the delivered Wendelstein bitter journalistic battles.

1880 to 1930

In the 1880s, the Wendelstein reached the then impressive edition of 4,500 copies. After Benno Gasteiger's death in 1881, his brother Georg Gasteiger took over the newspaper and publishing house. He expanded the Wendelstein into a daily newspaper. In 1900 the newly built, representative publishing house at Rathausstrasse 4 was moved into. In 1901 the newspaper title changed from Der Wendelstein - Katholisches Volksblatt for the Bavarian Oberland to the more general sounding Wendelstein - Rosenheimer Tagblatt.

Wendelstein Publishing House

After the death of the publisher Georg Gasteiger in 1922, his heirs and the previous editor Heinrich Bergmann founded the company Gasteiger & Bergmann in 1926 . The publishing house and newspaper flourished again. The Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein self-confidently called itself “the largest political party daily in the Bavarian Oberland”. Since 1925, the publisher has published the Sunday illustrated newspaper and twelve local church newspaper editions. The total circulation of the publisher's sheets in 1932 was 36,000.

Wendelstein - Faulhaber visit

1930 to 1945

In the early 1930s, the Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein appeared as a journalistic bulwark against National Socialism . Editor-in-chief Heinrich Bergmann vehemently opposed, among other things, the restriction of freedom of expression by the National Socialists' “muzzle decree” of February 4, 1933. The attitude of the newspaper led to Bergmann being arrested on April 2, 1933. Twelve days later he was released again on the condition that he would no longer work as a journalist. He was arrested again on July 9, 1933 and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp until November 1933 . In the meantime, the co-owners of the publishing house tried to get Bergmann out of the company. At the end of 1933 bankruptcy proceedings were opened against the publisher, which had got into economic difficulties due to boycotts and harassment, among other things . In March 1934 the company Gasteiger & Bergmann sold the newspaper title Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein to the Munich publishing house Müller & Sohn . The paper was thus attached to the Bavarian newspaper block. Despite the sale of the daily newspaper, the President of the Reich Press Chamber , Max Amann , ordered Heinrich Bergmann to leave the remaining publishing and printing company on April 1, 1934. Bergmann resigned on April 12, 1934. After the daily newspaper was sold, the printing and publishing house was merged into the newly founded J. Gasteiger company . Alfons Döser senior, who had already been employed by the Wendelstein publishing house from 1927 to 1932, became the authorized signatory of the new company .

In January 1935 the publishing house was re-established under the name Oberbayerische Druckerei . The Gasteiger siblings held 48 percent of the company, 21 percent various church representatives and 31 percent Alfons Döser senior, who was appointed managing director. The company was able to be economically stabilized as a printing company. A serious setback, however, was the ban imposed by the National Socialists on the Sunday newspaper published by the Upper Bavarian Printing House in 1939 and the church newspaper in 1941. The Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein , which was sold to the newspaper block in 1934 , only existed until 1937. On June 15, 1937, the traditional newspaper was discontinued. This took into account the press concentration desired by the National Socialists. Of the newspapers in Bavaria in 1933, only a fifth were left in 1944.

Re-establishment after World War II and permanent cessation

After the compulsory licensing in the press was lifted, local newspaper titles appeared again everywhere in Bavaria alongside the regional newspapers licensed by the Americans from 1945 onwards. In Rosenheim, the Wendelstein printing company published the Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein again on October 1, 1949 . The new editor-in-chief was Conrad Adlmaier, a former journalist for the Bavarian People's Party (BVP). The Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein appeared three times a week. Secondary editions were published in Bad Aibling, Kolbermoor and Prien. These sheets now appeared as competition to the regional newspaper Oberbayerisches Volksblatt, founded in Rosenheim in 1945 . While other regional newspapers such as the Reichenhaller Südostkurier , which was also founded in 1945, could not hold their own against the re-established local newspapers, the publishing management of the Upper Bavarian Volksblatt decided in 1951 to cooperate with the Wendelstein printing company . As a partner, this received 25 percent - later increased to 33 percent - in the publishing house of the Oberbayerischer Volksblatt and in return discontinued the rival Rosenheimer Tagblatt Wendelstein . The last Wendelstein edition appeared on March 15, 1951.

Wendelstein - last edition

literature

  • Norbert Frei : National Socialist conquest of the provincial press, conformity, self-adjustment and resistance in Bavaria (Studies on Contemporary History, 17). Stuttgart 1980.
  • Peter Miesbeck: Bourgeoisie and National Socialism in Rosenheim. Studies on Political Tradition . Rosenheim 1994.
  • Guido Treffler: Rosenheim's Catholic Church History since Secularization . In: Manfred Treml, Michael Pilz (Ed.): Rosenheim. History and culture . Rosenheim 2010, pp. 258-267.

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