Swabian Post

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Swabian Post
Swabian Post logo
description Subscription daily newspaper
publishing company SDZ Druck und Medien GmbH
First edition 1948
Frequency of publication Mon-Sat
Sold edition 24,234 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Damian Imöhl, Michael length
executive Director Alexander Weinstock, Constanze van Overdam
Web link www.schwaebische-post.de

The Schwäbische Post is a local daily newspaper in the Ostalb district . The newspaper gets its national pages from the editorial office of the Südwest Presse in Ulm.

The publisher is SDZ Druck und Medien GmbH in Aalen, run by the Theiss family . The company and its subsidiaries employ a total of around 320 permanent employees, 36 of whom are trainees and volunteers.

The sold circulation is 24,234 copies, a decrease of 10.1 percent since 1998.

history

On January 29, 1837, the Bote von Aalen was founded as the first Aalen newspaper by the two Schwäbisch Gmünd booksellers Johannes Raach and Philip Jakob Andreas Buck. After the revolution in 1848 , the printing works and the property were taken over by Ludwig Gottlob Stierlin. He received the concession to publish the official and intelligence newspaper Oberamtsiertel Aalen , which was given the new title Kocherzeitung in 1873 .

After being brought into line by the majority shareholder "NS-Presse", the Kocherzeitung became the Kocher- und Nationalzeitung during the Nazi era. It was last published on April 17, 1945.

On February 25, 1948, Johannes Binkowski and Konrad Theiss received approval from the US military government for the newly founded Süddeutsche Zeitungsdienst to publish the Schwäbische Post newspaper for the Aalen district as the twelfth newspaper in Baden-Württemberg .

In 1954, the WA Stierlin printing company and the publishing rights for the Kocherzeitung were taken over by the Schwäbische Post .

In 1959, the Süddeutsche Zeitung service founded in Schwabisch Gmund appearing Gmünder daily mail .

The publishers of the Schwäbische Post and the Gmünder Tagespost were among the initiators and founders of rtv as a TV program supplement to the newspaper in 1961 .

In 1965, the Schwäbische Post and the Gmünder Tagespost - according to the publisher, were the first newspapers in the Federal Republic of Germany - to be printed in four colors on a newspaper rotary printing press using offset printing. This was followed later by an expansion of offset printing in the commercial sector and high-performance offset reproduction.

In 2000 the Süddeutsche Zeitungsdienst was renamed to today's SDZ Druck und Medien GmbH & Co. KG .

An online edition of the Schwäbische Post has been published since February 13, 2003.

In August 2006, SDZ Druck und Medien was the first German newspaper house to be certified according to ISO 12647 ( Process Standard Offset ) .

Since December 2011 the Schwäbische Post and the Gmünder Tagespost have been printed in the Hohenlohe-Ostalb (DHO) printing center in Crailsheim. The DHO is half owned by SDZ Druck und Medien and half by the Neue Pressegesellschaft Ulm.

Distribution area

The area of ​​distribution of the Swabian Post includes the district town of Aalen with the suburbs of Unterkochen , Ebnat , Waldhausen , Dewangen , Wasseralfingen , Hofen and Fachsenfeld , the municipality of Abtsgmünd with the suburb of Untergröningen , the town of Ellwangen with the suburbs of Schrezheim , Rindelbach , Röhlingen and Pfahlheim , the city Bopfingen with the suburbs Unterriffingen , Trochtelfingen , Aufhausen , Oberdorf , Kerkingen and Baldern , the city Neresheim with the suburbs Elchingen , Dorfmerkingen , Kösingen , Stetten , Schweindorf , Hohlenstein and Ohmenheim , the city Lauchheim with the suburbs Röttingen and Hülen , as well as the city Oberkochen and the communities Essingen , Neuler , Westhausen , Obergröningen , Adelmannsfelden , Rosenberg , Jagstzell , Ellenberg , Wört , Stödtlen , Tannhausen , Unterschneidheim , Kirchheim am Ries and Riesbürg .

Edition

The Swabian Post , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 0.4% per year over the past 10 years. In contrast, it rose by 11.8% last year. It is currently 24,234 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 83 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

Further branches of the SDZ print and media

  • 1961: Schwäpo shop opens office retail in Aalen
  • 1986: Spin-off of the electronic data processing department as a subsidiary of Theiss & Binkowski Aalen GmbH & Co. KG data center
  • 1992: Foundation of the new business newspaper for Ostwürttemberg Wirtschaft Regional
  • 1995: Cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart on the pilot production of a multimedia catalog as the basis for DSM (Digital Sales Marketing). From this the service brand SDZeCOM developed, which was spun off as an independent subsidiary in 2008.
  • 2000: Introduction of digital printing with the new subsidiary DigitalDruck Aalen (since April 2007 with the DigitalDruck Germany division )
  • July 1, 2006: Ostalb Mail GmbH & Co. KG starts its activity as a private service provider for business mail.
  • January 1, 2009: Participation in the city magazine Xaver
  • 2011: Founding of the Ostalb media workshop
  • 2016: Foundation of SDZ. Events und Messen GmbH as a regional trade fair organizer and event agency.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Imprint Schwäbische Post
  2. ↑ a b c d e company data SDZ print and media
  3. ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j SDZ media: history
  5. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  6. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  7. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
  8. ^ SDZ printing and media - The publishing house in Aalen. Accessed April 8, 2019 (German).