The Cologne Post

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The Cologne Post of June 21, 1919
Inscription Given by William Edward Rolston to the founder of "The Cologne Post"

The Cologne Post was an English-language newspaper that appeared from March 31, 1919 to January 17, 1926 as a daily newspaper for the soldiers of the British Army of the Rhine . Founder and director was William Edward Rolston .

The newspaper was founded in the spring of 1919 to provide the British occupation forces and their relatives in Cologne and the surrounding area with information from England, the world and local news, as this was initially cut off from news from their homeland and it took days before Londoners Newspapers arrived in Cologne. It is considered the oldest English-language newspaper in Germany. The newspaper was able to land a great sensation in June 1919 when it published the contents of the Versailles Peace Treaty before the official announcement .

At first the newspaper had only a few employees. These processed both news from the Reuters agency from England, but also described the lives of British soldiers in the Rhineland in their own reports . The newspaper received financial support from the British War Department. It was considered a daily newspaper published by the Rhine Army. It later became an independent newspaper that was no longer funded by the army as it generated its own income from advertising and sales. The newspaper was printed in the printing house of the Kölnische Volkszeitung .

With the relocation of strong British troops to Upper Silesia under the leadership of the former commander of the British occupation in Cologne, William Heneker , as a result of the third uprising in Upper Silesia , special editions of the Cologne Post appeared for the summer of 1921 from June 17 to August 6, 1921 British soldiers in Opole .

After the Rhine Army withdrew from Cologne in 1926, the newspaper was renamed Cologne Post and Wiesbaden Times . In the end, she only appeared twice a week.

literature

  • Robert Campbell, James Stewart: The Newspaper that Scooped the World: The Cologne Post and British journalism in the occupied Rhineland 1919-1929 , 2020, ISBN 979-8602841404

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Cologne Post zeitpunkt.nrw
  2. ^ The story behind 'the greatest scoop in the world' theneweuropean.co.uk
  3. ^ Post from Cologne , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , April 26, 2020, page 11, eparer
  4. ^ COLOGNE POST parliament.uk
  5. ^ The Cologne Post 1921-1929 stampdomain.com