Siegener newspaper

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Siegener newspaper
Siegener Zeitung Logo.png
description Local newspaper
language German
publishing company Vorländer and Rothmaler GmbH & Co.
First edition January 10, 1823
Frequency of publication working days
Sold edition 46,717 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Markus Vogt
editor Wolfgang Rothmaler
Web link www.siegener-zeitung.de
ZDB 529649-3

The Siegener Zeitung is the daily newspaper with the highest circulation in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district .

history

In 1810, Jacob Heinrich Vorländer (1764-1825), owner of a wine business and a wine and iron trade, took part in a Siegen book printing company, who immigrated to Siegen from a farm near the Oberberg village of Nümbrecht in 1803 . In 1813 it became his sole property. The Siegenisches Wochenblatt appeared there from July 1816 to December 26, 1817, along with other regional publications . It was a successor to the Dillenburg intelligence news . The publishing family soon gave up the wine trade and wine industry.

In October 1822, the publisher received permission to publish an “Intelligence and Weekly Journal”, in accordance with the then authoritative state conditions “subject to any restriction or total withdrawal of this decision deemed necessary by the government.” He was also required to provide a specimen copy of the To be sent to the royal government in Arnsberg. In addition, he had to include in the sheet free of charge all “notices of police and other public state matters” prepared by this government and the district administrator. From January 10, 1823 the originally planned as Siegenisches weekly intelligence sheet , but then renamed Siegerland intelligence sheet with publication appeared .

Precursor, January 10, 1823
Precursors, 1831-1834

In 1831, the title was changed to Siegen'sches Intellektiven-Blatt , in 1835 to an intelligence paper for the districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein , in February 1843 to an intelligence sheet for the districts of Siegen, Wittgenstein and Altenkirchen , in 1867 to a Siegener Kreisblatt and finally from 1873 to a Siegener Zeitung .

The newspaper has appeared daily since 1893. It shared the market with a few other local newspapers and was not of particular importance in this phase. Unlike the Christian-social competitors Das Volk and Siegerländer Volksfreund , it did not represent a party-political line, but a conservative-liberal course. This is reflected in their critical stance towards the anti-Semitic campaigns of the Christian Socialists who were strong in Siegerland in the 1880s and 1890s.

The Siegener Zeitung played an emphatically political role during the Weimar Republic. To represent without a narrow party political profile, she saw herself but as part and mouthpiece of the majority anti-democratic "patriotic camp", which includes the anti-Semitic parties DNVP or EVD and NSDAP belonged. In the Siegerland, DNVP and EVD were the organizational successors of the Christian Socials of the Empire and dominated politics and society until they were replaced by the Nazi movement at the beginning of the 1930s.

The Siegener Zeitung offered the National Socialists propaganda opportunities early on . So she reported after the unsuccessful Hitler-Ludendorff putsch - extensively referring to Hitler's statements and affirmatively without distance - on the subsequent process . When the NSDAP was banned, it published the campaigns of its substitute organizations and, through extensive reporting, participated in the mobilization and advertising of a so-called German Day of Legal Organizations in 1924, which was organized primarily by members of the banned NSDAP and was initially anti-republic and anti-constitutional had been banned by the Prussian Minister of the Interior. On this occasion, she greeted the coup leader and National Socialist Ludendorff with a poetic dedication from her editor-in-chief .

Lead story, March 27, 1933

The district president repeatedly threatened the paper, which was under constant surveillance, with sanctions for "anti-republican" activities.

The Siegener Zeitung responded to the fire in the Reichstag on February 27, 1933 with the request "to intervene with the sharpest means to protect the threatened state order". “After the elections, we should come to completely different things.” In May 1933, shortly after the National Socialists and their German national allies came to power, the Siegener Zeitung proclaimed itself to be the “organ of the National Socialist German state and the people awakened under Adolf Hitler's leadership ". There was a conflict with the official party newspaper National-Zeitung , as a result of which the Siegener Zeitung was forced to back down. The two were the only remaining daily newspapers in Siegerland. In 1943 they merged into a jointly owned publishing house. While the title National-Zeitung now went under, the Siegener Zeitung continued to appear from April 1, 1943 in Foerster & Vorländer KG with the participation of the previous Vorländer publishing family. The printing business remained with Vorländer KG.

With the end of National Socialism, the apparently apolitical "home newspapers" ended in the British zone, including the Siegener newspaper . The publication of a newspaper required a license from the military authorities, which the former publishers of the Siegener Zeitung did not receive because their paper was "too reactionary". In Siegerland too, the military authorities licensed party newspapers committed to an anti-Nazi consensus with the Westfälische Rundschau (SPD), the Westfalenpost (CDU) and the Freedom (KPD). Both verbal advances by the publisher Johannes Rothmaler in the military administration with far-reaching confessions - "Germany" was "seriously guilty", "a victorious army" had brought about a "liberation" - and the attempt to create a joint newspaper "for religion and socialism, for Home and Reconciliation between Nations ”with the SPD, edited by the Social Democrat Fritz Fries , were unsuccessful.

From November 1, 1949, the newspaper was allowed to appear again. In a programmatic leading article, the new editor-in-chief, Siegfried Kap-Hardenberg , explained the previous decades “in their ups and downs”. In doing so, he saw “the impermanence of the world”. He saw the National Socialist rule "not only [as] the work of Hitler", but "to a large extent" as that of his opponents and as the result of the "attitude abroad". He did not name the right-wing conservative and German national supporters and allies of the NSDAP, to which the newspaper had belonged. The non-appearance of the newspaper was justified, among other things, by the fact that for four years the potential readers had become victims of those "intellectual sleight of hand" whose "tricks" are only intended to distract from the "Russian atom bomb".

Lore history

The tradition of the history of the newspaper as well as the overall history of the Siegerland as "home history" lies to a large extent with the newspaper itself and with the publishing house, which publishes the relevant articles repeatedly in separate publications. "The traditional line of a conservative view of history", according to an assessment of the politics of the past from the late 1980s represented by the publisher, has "remained dominant" through the decades. It is often home to downright backward-looking representatives of the home milieu, exemplified by someone like Lothar Irle . This finding has not yet been refuted.

The newspaper is largely fully archived. Two sheets of the former “patriotic camp”, Das Volk (Christian-social wing of the DNVP ) and (Siegerländer) National-Zeitung ( NSDAP ) are well archived . Since the Siegener Volkszeitung ( SPD ), the Sieg-Rheinische Volksblatt ( center ) and the Siegerländer Tagespost as their former counterparties are only available in a few copies, it results that there is only a narrowly limited historical counterpart to the one-sided house and home history the Siegener Zeitung and the Vorländer publishing house.

Current situation

Since its re-publication in 1949, the newspaper took and still has a politically independent place within the right-wing, conservative spectrum of opinion and describes itself again as the “home newspaper”.

Until September 2000, the Siegener Zeitung appeared as a lunchtime newspaper . It was one of the last German papers of this type.

In the meantime, “dat Blättche”, as it was popularly called, is being published in the 198th year (2020), and has been published by Vorländer und Rothmaler GmbH & Co. KG for a long time. The publisher is Wolfgang Rothmaler, editor-in-chief Markus Vogt.

Publishing house in Siegen

The headquarters of the publishing house with central editorial office is Siegen . Local editions appear in the district area for the Siegerland and with local partial editions in the Wittgensteiner Land as well as in the neighboring districts of Olpe and Altenkirchen . Editorial offices are maintained in Bad Berleburg , Betzdorf , Kreuztal and Olpe .

The local pages are the first book of the local newspaper to be inserted into the national news section. The Siegener Zeitung does not have a cover section like many regional and national daily newspapers .

In October 2016, the Siegener Zeitung launched its job portal "57jobs.de", on which all job advertisements are published that also appear in the print edition.

Edition

The Siegen newspaper , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The number of copies sold has fallen by an average of 1.9% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 3.4%. It is currently 46,717 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 91.5 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

Publisher / Publishing Director

Editors-in-chief

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar Irle, Siegerland Personalities and Gender Lexicon, Siegen 1974, p. 356; Alfred Lück, 150 Years of the Siegener Zeitung, in: Siegerland, 1966, pp. 45–50.
  2. ↑ Siegerland home calendar for 1998 , p. 45 ff.
  3. ^ Alfred Lück, 150 Years of the Siegener Zeitung, in: Siegerland, 1966, pp. 45–50, here: 47.
  4. ^ Lothar Irle, Siegerland Personalities and Gender Lexicon, Siegen 1974, p. 356; Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann , "With clinking windows and hooting". Jews and Volksgemeinschaft, Siegen 2009, p. 41f.
  5. ↑ Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann, "With clinking windows and hooting". Jews and Volksgemeinschaft, Siegen 2009, p. 50f.
  6. ↑ See e.g. B. after polemics against the “Constitution Day” of the constitutional forces and for the “Reich Foundation Ceremony” borne in its place by the legal authorities: The district president against the anti-republican spelling of the “Siegener Zeitung”, in: Volkszeitung, June 5, 1926.
  7. ^ The Reichstag is burning !, in: Siegener Zeitung, February 28, 1933.
  8. ^ Declaration !, in: Siegener Zeitung, May 27, 1933.
  9. ↑ Ulrich Friedrich Opfermann, "With clinking windows and hooting". Jews and Volksgemeinschaft, Siegen 2009, p. 56; Siegener Zeitung , March 30, 1943, November 30, 1956.
  10. ^ Philippe Blanchet, The CDU des Siegerlandes. Origin, development, 1945–1949, Siegen 1979, p. 23.
  11. ^ Regional personal lexicon on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Johannes Rothmaler
  12. ^ Siegfriedkap-Hardenberg, The German Question, in: Siegener Zeitung, September 1, 1949.
  13. ^ Uli Opfermann, Organ of the Awakening Nation. On the biography of a non-partisan local newspaper, part 6, in: The tip. Regionalmagazin, 1988, no. 1, p. 16f .; SPD sub-district Siegen-Wittgenstein (ed.), 100 years of social democracy, 1863–1963, district party conference of the SPD in Siegen on June 8th and 9th, 1963, unpublished (1963), unpag.
  14. ↑ "The Vorländer publishing house has been able to largely monopolize the publication of regional historical accounts. ... [The] often extremely reactionary (only ex-racial investigator L. Irle is a representative) provenance [of the 'Heimatverwalter' supported by the publisher] has generally harmonized with the publisher's policy, so that the traditional line of a conservative view of history ... remained dominant is. ”, in: Uli Opfermann, organ of the awakening nation. On the biography of a non-partisan local newspaper, concluding part, in: Der Tipp. Regionalmagazin, 1988, no. 3, p. 15
  15. ^ The Siegen City Archives have a very extensive collection of newspapers, including an almost complete collection of the Siegen newspaper .
  16. ↑ See the regularly published anniversary editions, e.g. B. the one published in 1998 for the 175th anniversary with a "Zeitschrift".
  17. ^ "... the SZ (is) generally classified as conservative ...", in: Patrick Fick, The representation of ethnic minorities in local media [Siegener Zeitung, Westfälische Rundschau]. Current conditions - changes in the last decade, teaching research project, o. O. [Siegen] 2006, p. 13, see: [1] (PDF file; 333 kB). A far backward empirical analysis from the late 1980s comes to the conclusion that there is “the impression that there is also room in the Siegener Zeitung for that conservative variant that is noticeable through its pronounced openness to the far right.”, In: Uli Opfermann, organ of the awakening nation. On the biography of a non-partisan local newspaper, part 7, in: The tip. Regionalmagazin, 1988, no. 2, p. 19.
  18. ↑ See in the Siegener Zeitung, November 1, 1949, pp. 3, 4: Wilhelm Faust, Lewer Blädchesmah (therein: "Eh osem Blädche woar alles ... Heimatarwet on Hussmannskost"); Rudolf Jung, a loyal friend and companion (in it: "Now it is back, our dear old 'Siegener Zeitung' ', the' Blättche '."); Wilhelm Schmidt, D'm Blaedche zom Näjjerschinn.
  19. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  20. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  21. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
  22. ^ Regional personal encyclopedia on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Fritz Vorländer .
  23. ^ Regional personal lexicon on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Wilhelm Thöne .
  24. ↑ Information from Lothar Irle , Siegerländer Personalities and Gender Lexicon, Siegen 1974, p. 356.
  25. ^ "Heinz Vorländer died" , Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers BDZV of February 25, 2005, accessed on February 19, 2019
  26. ^ Regional dictionary of persons on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Heinrich Schleichert .
  27. ↑ kap-Hardenberg was "chief editor" for only two weeks. Why he was hired and left / had to leave is not known. Since the 1960s at the latest, he has been publishing primarily historical revisionist content in right-wing extremist publishers [2] . See also the statement that he "prefers right-wing extremist book authors" in: Julius Mader, Branded Verlage. Brown flood in the FRG. Literature, authors, publishers and backgrounds / a current documentation (end). Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels - GDR edition, Leipzig, vol. 150 (1983), no. 44, pp. 838–840, here: p. 838.
  28. ↑ Lothar Irle, Siegerland Personalities and Gender Lexicon, Siegen 1974, p. 229.
  29. ↑ Markus Vogt is the new editor-in-chief of the “Siegener Zeitung” , meedia.de from February 7, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020

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