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The Thurgauer Volksfreund was a local newspaper that appeared in Kreuzlingen from June 16, 1885 to the end of 2000 . At the beginning of 2001, the Thurgauer Volksfreund and other titles from the publisher Paul Ruckstuhl merged with the Thurgauer Zeitung ( Frauenfeld ) to form Thurgauer Medien AG.

The Thurgauer Volksfreund was a classic regional newspaper . It consisted of two newspaper bundles , a front with local and regional news and a back with national and international news and one or two sports pages.

founding

The newspaper goes back to the Anzeiger vom Untersee , a publication medium founded by the printer Jakob Hauser in Steckborn and first published on June 17, 1882 for the districts of Steckborn and Kreuzlingen , as the subtitle read. From then on it appeared three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The municipality of Steckborn used the newspaper from the beginning to publicize official resolutions and announcements.

Relocation to Kreuzlingen

In June 1885, Hauser moved his business to Kreuzlingen. The decisive factor were the poor transport connections: "First of all, it is the post connection upwards, which is not unpleasant in winter, which forces us to visit Kreuzlingen, which is much more favorably located in this regard", he wrote "on his own account" on June 14, 1885.

From June 16, 1885, the newspaper appeared under the title Thurgauer Volksfreund .

Change of ownership

The newspaper has seen several changes of ownership in its history. On November 15, 1887, Hauser announced that he had sold the publishing house to Johann Heinrich Welti. The sale probably had to do with disputes within the Thurgau Freedom . On July 1, 1910, the so-called printing and publishing consortium took over. On July 15, 1911, a cooperative was founded which, barely two years later, on April 1, 1913, was converted into the Bodan AG corporation. At the same time, the business area was expanded to include a bookbinding and writing materials store.

In 1965 Paul Ruckstuhl acquired Bodan AG and took over management. From 1968 he gradually expanded the group of companies by taking over the Thurgau Tagblatt in Weinfelden, the Thurgauer Volkszeitung , the Bischofszeller Nachrichten and the New Wiler Tagblatt (discontinued in 1998). Most recently, the five sheets together had a print run of 18,000 copies.

After the takeover of his group by Thurgauer Zeitung and its publisher Huber & Co. AG, Ruckstuhl became Vice President of Thurgauer Medien AG . In 2004 he sold his shares to Huber & Co. AG. Six months later, the Huber shareholders sold the Thurgauer Zeitung to Tamedia , now TX Group AG . The Thurgauer Zeitung, in turn, passed this on to the NZZ Group in exchange with Zürcher regional newspapers in 2010. In 2011, the new owner integrated the paper into the St. Galler Tagblatt network .

From 1973 to 1974 the Basel journalist Peter Knechtli was one of the numerous editors - there were none in the first 100 years - of the Thurgau Volksfreund .

The industry magazine Klartext , today Edito, criticized Ruckstuhl's publishing work in an article about the merger on July 10, 2007. He had repeatedly imposed writing bans on “left” journalists and “left” politicians. For years, the most prominent victim was former SP Councilor of States Thomas Onken, who died in the spring of 2000.

Ruckstuhl died in 2012 at the age of 81. What remains of his media group is, among others, the Bodan AG printing and publishing house in Kreuzlingen. This took over the Werd Verlag from Tamedia AG in 2002. It is run by the second generation of the Ruckstuhl family.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newspaper merger in Thurgau. NZZ No. 253 of October 20, 2000
  2. ↑ a b c d Wolf-Dieter Burkhard. 100 years of Thurgauer Volksfreund . In: Thurgauer Volksfreund. Anniversary edition. October 20, 1981. No. 243J
  3. ↑ Company history from 1911 . Bodan AG website. Retrieved April 6, 2020
  4. ↑ Thurgauer Tagblatt . hls-dhs-dss.ch. October 11, 2012. Accessed April 16, 2020.
  5. ↑ The Wiler newspapers . In Wilnet - Stadtlexikon Wil . Retrieved April 6, 2020
  6. ^ Biography Peter Knechtli . In online reports. Retrieved April 6, 2020
  7. ↑ Displacement battle . Klartext, edition 6/2000. Retrieved April 6, 2020
  8. ↑ A life for the newspaper . Online edition of the St. Galler Tagblatt from April 5, 2012. Accessed on April 6, 2020
  9. ↑ We are a good team . Website of Bodan AG Druck und Verlag. Retrieved April 6, 2020