Day watch
Tagwacht is the name of several social democratic newspapers in Switzerland :
- The Tagwacht in Zurich appeared from 1869 as an organ of the social democrats and trade unions with Herman Greulich as editor, from April 1870 as a weekly paper. In 1873 the Swiss Workers' Union took over the day watch and published it twice a week. It reached its peak in the mid-1870s with a print run of around 2,000 copies. The economic crisis and the dissolution of the workers' union led to the paper being discontinued in 1880.
- The Berner Tagwacht was founded in 1892 as an organ of the cantonal SP and was published as a daily newspaper from 1906. 1909–1918 the editor Robert Grimm turned it into a leading fighting paper for the working class, which received international attention during the First World War . The print run was 2,300 copies in 1894 and rose to around 20,000 in the 1930s. In the 1970s, the "Berner T." signed cooperation agreements with social democratic daily newspapers in other cantons, for example with the Basler Arbeiter-Zeitung until 1984 and with the Freie Aargauer until 1987. To ensure its survival, it issued appeals for solidarity at the end of the 1980s SP members and trade unionists. Nevertheless, she was discontinued in 1997 due to financial problems.
- In 1918 the Seeländer Tagwacht appeared , from 1896 to 1897 the Oltner Tagwacht , from 1924 to 1925 and from 1929 to 1933 the Schaffhauser Tagwacht and in 1943 the illegal New Berner Tagwacht , which was the only one with a communist orientation.