Strasbourg Post

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The Strasbourg Post was a German-language newspaper that appeared twice a day.

The "Straßburger Post" was founded in 1882 as an offshoot or subsidiary of the " Kölnische Zeitung " by the publisher August Neven DuMont and its aim was to support the promotion of Germanness in Alsace-Lorraine . At that time it was considered the most respected political paper in the Reich and was published by M. DuMont Schauberg in Strasbourg and Cologne . The newspaper was considered free-conservative and was often referred to as the "professor's paper". At the beginning of the 20th century, the edition was 8,500 copies; The first responsible editor-in-chief for many years was from 1882 to 1908 Pascal David (1850–1908).

The last day of publication was November 21, 1918.

literature

  • Martin Berger: Pascal David and the political development of Alsace-Lorraine 1882-1907 . Munich: Verlag JF Lehmann, 1910.
  • Wilhelm Kapp : Pascal David and the Strasbourg Post ; in: "Revue d'Alsace", Volume 80, No. 3; Colmar 1933; P. 99.
  • G. Erwin Ritter: The Alsace-Lorraine press in the last third of the 19th century . Strasbourg: Self-published by the Alsace-Lorraine Scientific Society, 1934.

digitalization

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The "Straßburger Post" is fully documented from 1882 to 1918 in the library of the historical seminar, department of modern history, of the University of Tübingen, shelfmark: Mf 690 (microfilm). Compare with the