Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung
| Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung
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| description | newspaper |
| Area of Expertise | Party sheet of the USPD and from 1921 the KPD |
| language | German |
| Headquarters | Wroclaw |
| First edition | March 31, 1919 |
| attitude | 1933 |
| founder | Bernhard Schottländer |
| Frequency of publication | alternating, mostly six times a week |
| Editors-in-chief | Bernhard Schottländer (1919–1920), Erich Gentsch , Stefan Heymann |
The Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung was a left-wing newspaper that appeared in Breslau , Lower Silesia Province from 1919 to 1933 during the Weimar Republic .
history
The Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung was founded by Bernhard Schottländer , a member of the USPD . The first edition was on March 31, 1919. The newspaper initially appeared at irregular intervals, from 1921 six times a week.
During the Kapp Putsch , editor - in-chief Schottländer was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Freikorps soldiers. In a separate edition of the newspaper from March 21, 1920, 15,000 marks were suspended for information about his whereabouts.
From January 1921 the Arbeiter-Zeitung appeared as a party paper of the KPD , at that time under the name United Communist Party of Germany . In the same year Erich Gentsch became editor-in-chief. In the 1920s there were multiple prohibition proceedings against the newspaper before the State Court for the Protection of the Republic . In 1926 the newspaper became a regional edition of the Berlin Red Flag , now under the name Arbeiter-Zeitung for Silesia and Upper Silesia . In the following years, Stefan Heymann took over the editorial management . Shortly after the seizure of power of the Nazis and the occupation of the Karl Liebknecht House in Berlin by SA and police set the newspaper in February 1933rd
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingo J. Hueck: The State Court for the Protection of the Republic . Mohr Siebeck, 1996. p. 344.