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description German daily newspaper
publishing company Main-Post GmbH
Headquarters Berner Str. 2
97084 Würzburg
First edition November 24, 1945
Frequency of publication daily except Sundays
Sold edition 112,014 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Michael Reinhard
executive Director David Brandstätter
Web link mainpost.de
ZDB 534863-8
Main-Post building in Würzburg

The Main-Post media group , based in Würzburg ( Heuchelhof district ), belongs to the Pressedruck media group and publishes newspapers for the Lower Franconia region and the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg. Until the end of April 2011, the company belonged to the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group .

The sold circulation of the entire media group is 112,014 copies, a decrease of 26.2 percent since 1998.

Newspapers

The media group Main-Post includes the previously independent daily newspapers Main-Post , Schweinfurter Tagblatt , Schweinfurter Volkszeitung , Bote vom Haßgau, Haßfurter Tagblatt, Obermain-Tagblatt and Volksblatt (formerly Fränkisches Volksblatt ).

The publisher also publishes the magazines Tiepolo and Mamamia as well as the consumer magazines markt am Sonntag and markt am Wednesday with over 590,000 free copies per week (nine different editions). From the beginning of 2004 to the beginning of 2007, the Main-Post newspaper group also published the weekly Boulevard Würzburg .

Since 2015, the Main-Post has also taken over the Werntal-Zeitung (weekly newspaper) of the large municipality of Arnstein.

Around 1000 people work in the editorial, advertising, sales, technology and administration departments.

history

The forerunner of the Main-Post was the Würzburger General-Anzeiger , founded by the Würzburg brothers Carl and August Richter in May 1883 , which was printed by the Richter printing company with the first rotary press installed in Würzburg . In 1941 the Würzburger General-Anzeiger had to stop its publication due to pressure from the National Socialists. The brown rulers presented it as if the newspaper had been united with their NS Gauorgan and from then on had the Mainfränkische Zeitung, first published in 1934 as a propaganda organ, printed in the production facilities of the Würzburger General-Anzeiger . The NSDAP newspaper was last published on March 31, 1945, two weeks after the destruction of Würzburg by the Allies.

The first issue of the Main-Post appeared on November 24, 1945. The Allies in Würzburg licensed a non-partisan newspaper under this name. The licensees were Heinrich G. Merkel and Richard Seubert. The Main-Post has been published daily since 1952.

In the following decades the Main-Post grew more and more, local editions were added and soon covered the whole of Main Franconia. At the headquarters in downtown Würzburg, the publishing house in the Sterngasse, which was rebuilt in 1953 with the later extension in the Plattnerstrasse, it became too narrow. In the newly developed Heuchelhof district, a publishing building and printing hall for newspapers and third-party products were built in the early 1970s. In September 1972 the Richterdruck company moved into its new premises there. Main-Post has been printed there since 1974 .

Carl Richter's daughters sold the Mainpresse Richterdruck company (with Main-Post and Fränkisches Volksblatt ) in 1991 to the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group in Stuttgart . This in turn was sold by the media company with effect from May 1, 2011 to the Pressedruck media group in Augsburg (Augsburger Allgemeine).

Distribution area

Main post readers in Nepal

In the Würzburg and Schweinfurt regions, the media group has a monopoly on daily newspapers.

The newspaper title Main-Post appears in the cities and districts: Würzburg , Ochsenfurt , Kitzingen , Tauberbischofsheim , Lohr , Gemünden , Karlstadt , Marktheidenfeld , Bad Brückenau , Hammelburg , Bad Kissingen , Bad Bocklet , Bad Neustadt , Mellrichstadt and Bad Königshofen .

The newspaper title Schweinfurter Tagblatt appears in the Schweinfurt , Gerolzhofen and Haßfurt area .

The newspaper Bote vom Haßgau appears in the Hofheim area in Lower Franconia / Königsberg in Bavaria .

The newspaper title Volksblatt appears in the Würzburg area, three issues of the Volkszeitung appear in the Main-Rhön region.

editorial staff

All Main-Post newspaper pages are created in two large editorial units, the so-called news desks - the news desk coat and the news desk local (both in Würzburg).

Chief editor

  • Editor-in-chief (since 2001): Michael Reinhard

Mantle editing

The news desk coat plans and builds the pages of the formerly independent departments of politics, business, culture, sport, journal, Franconia and Bavaria as well as the weekend magazine. This is where the nationally interesting topics are dealt with. These pages are the same in all issues of Main-Post , Schweinfurter Tagblatt and Bote vom Haßgau .

Local newsrooms

The local parts only appear in the respective local editions. Some articles are repeated - mostly in abbreviated form - in the general part at a suitable point, provided that these articles are recognized as having national significance.

There are local parts for the following regions: Würzburg, Ochsenfurt, Tauberbischofsheim, Main-Spessart (each with its own local part for Lohr, Karlstadt, Gemünden and Marktheidenfeld, with articles partly taken over from one another), Kitzingen, Schweinfurt, Rhön-Grabfeld, Bad Kissingen, Haßberge, Gerolzhofen and Bad Königshofen.

Edition

The Main-Post , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 1.4% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 2.3%. It is currently 112,014 copies, of which 60,182 in the Würzburg area and 39,689 in the Schweinfurt area (including the Bote vom Haßgau ). The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 86.1 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

Online offers

The newspaper's iPad app

The Main-Post manufactures, operates and markets the online platforms mainpost.de , mediengruppe-mainpost.de , main-ding.de , fraenkischer-weinfestkalender.de, shop.mainpost.de, mainfrankencard.de, evergabe.mainpost. de, obermain.de, tiepolo-magazin.de, mamamia-online.de, wuewowas.de and pfiffikus.mainpost.de.

On 21 October 2006, a nationwide, family oriented online offer was launched, which over the domain for a relaunch in 2008 familieninsel.de was available. In addition to editorial articles, the offer included a family wiki to set up an online lexicon on family-related topics, a forum and a community. Since May 2, 2012, the page has been accessible via the subdomain www.main.de/familieninsel. The offer has been discontinued.

Since 2010, Main-Post has been offering its readers the opportunity to read the daily newspapers on their iPhone or Android smartphone and, since 2011, on tablets.

Key figures for the journalistic offering (as of 2019)

  • 680,000 unique users per month
  • 2,785,000 visits per month
  • 17.3 million PIs per month

Podcast

The podcast "Freilich Würzburg" by Johanna Juni has existed since 2019 in cooperation with the Main-Post. In the audio format, Juni interviews people from Würzburg on current topics such as gastronomy, nightlife or regional politics. Especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic , the podcast was often devoted to the question of how Würzburg residents survived the crisis.

Occasionally, Chrstian Papay co-hosts the format. The "Freilich" of the podcast name has the meaning of course in southern Germany, unlike in standard German .

Projects and products for young people

  • Pfiffikus : Main-Post offers cross-media news to encourage children between the ages of four and twelve , including articles prepared daily for this target group and weekly children's pages in the daily newspaper, a monthly children's newspaper and a specially tailored online service, pfiffikus.mainpost .de
  • CLASS! Project: CLASS! has been the Main-Post media group's newspaper project since 1995. Schools of all types in Mainfranken can take part. Around 1250 classes with over 25,000 students take part in each school year.

subsidiary company

Mailbox of Main-PostLogistik (right) in Münnerstadt

The subsidiary Main-PostLogistik GmbH is a private mail service provider with around 100 employees. At first it was only possible to send letters within Lower Franconia. Today, shipping via Main-PostLogistics works in Germany and worldwide.

Founded in 2001, the company has developed from a pure mail carrier to a full-service postal service provider . The range of services includes the processing of shipments, complete in-house solutions, messenger tours and post office organization.

Main-PostLogistik now has more than 6000 customers (including all Bavarian authorities such as the police, courts and tax offices). Since its inception, over 150 million items have been sent with Main-PostLogistics.

Postage stamps are called “labels” at Main-PostLogistik. These are stickers that are provided with a barcode . This barcode ensures that the letters are precisely tracked.

The media group took a 51 percent stake in Papay Landois GmbH in 2013. The company operates news blogs and numerous social media in the cities of Würzburg, Schweinfurt and Ansbach.

social commitment

The company collects around 300,000 euros annually through the sponsored child campaign, which has existed since 1945. The donations, 100 percent of which are passed on, benefit those in need in the Main-Post area. Main-Post bears the administrative costs.

The fair-is-more trophy has been awarded since 1991 for particularly fair gestures in sport in Lower Franconia. IOC President Thomas Bach has been its patron since 2004 .

Since 2003, the “Setting Signs” campaign has been honoring outstanding voluntary civic engagement. The campaign is supported by the adult education center Lernwerk Volkersberg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Augsburger Allgemeine: Mediengruppe Pressedruck takes over Main-Post. (No longer available online.) December 20, 2010, archived from the original on December 22, 2010 ; Retrieved December 20, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.augsburger-allgemeine.de
  2. ^ W&V: Holtzbrinck parted ways with "Main Post". December 20, 2010, accessed December 20, 2010 .
  3. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  4. ↑ Main-Post media group buys Obermain-Tagblatt. January 17, 2012, accessed May 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Article “Fränkisches Volksblatt” , in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, accessed on January 30, 2010
  6. ^ BDZV: New weekly newspaper "Boulevard Würzburg" .
  7. ↑ BDZV: Würzburg's new magazine "nine7" .
  8. ↑ http://www.dgb-schweinfurt.de/sw/aktuelles/1234.Aktiv_lokal_und_aktuell_.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dgb-schweinfurt.de  
  9. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1241.
  10. ^ Bruno Rottenbach: Würzburg street names. Volume 1, Franconian Society Printing Office, Würzburg 1967, p. 94 ( Hof Wolfhart ).
  11. ↑ Rolf-Ulrich Kunze : Würzburg 1945-2004. Reconstruction, modern city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 318-346 and 1292-1295; here: p. 341.
  12. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. 2007, p. 1246.
  13. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  14. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  15. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  16. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  17. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
  18. ↑ Familieninsel.de , snapshot from April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive (accessed on March 20, 2017)
  19. ↑ a b Main-Post: Media data 2019. Retrieved on May 8, 2019 .
  20. ↑ IVW , average February 2019
  21. ↑ Editor: Podcast: Of course, Würzburg with Johanna Juni. In: mainpost.de. Main-Post GmbH, accessed on July 9, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Mediengruppe Main Post participates with 'Experience Würzburg'. June 11, 2013, accessed February 19, 2019 .