Tribune (KPD newspaper)
The tribune was a daily newspaper of the KPD in the area of the Prussian province Saxony and Anhalt .
history
It was founded in 1920 and initially appeared in the Magdeburg-Anhalt district as the headline of party newspapers from Halle (Saale) and Berlin . In 1924 the KPD set up its own print shop in Magdeburg . First old printing machines were used, which had a negative effect on the technical quality of the newspaper. The main office was in the Magdeburg district of Sudenburg at Sankt-Michael-Straße 16. Subsidiaries in Magdeburg existed at Scharrnstraße 14 and Rote Krebsstraße 17. There were also branches in Aschersleben , Bernburg , Burg bei Magdeburg , Dessau , Halberstadt , Köthen , Schönebeck (Elbe) , Thale and Zerbst . The grandstand was widened to 123 localities in the area in 1927.
More modern machines were then purchased. The print shop received a 16-page rotary press , modern stereotype , two Linotype - and one Intertype - typesetting machine as well as high-speed and platen printing presses . The commercial department has also been modernized. There was also a bookbinding shop .
In its own presentation, the tribune stated that it was pursuing a consistently revolutionary line and publishing current statements on all economic and political issues of the day of interest to the proletariat . The journalistic work was criticized from other sources. In April 1930, the tribune reported on a general assembly of the Social Democratic Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold , which had not yet taken place. In January 1931 the tribune reported Hermann Kasten , first mayor of Schönebeck, had been beaten in the street by a member of the Reich Banner. Kasten fought against this probably fictitious message. Following a legal dispute, the side of the tribune was fined and the verdict was ordered to be published in the tribune. The then social-democratic Magdeburg Volksstimme wrote: "With time it becomes disgusting to have to write again and again about the miserable defamation tactics of the ruble and slapstick tribune ...". Another legal dispute arose in 1932. The tribune had labeled photos of 30,000 demonstrators of the Iron Front on Magdeburg Cathedral Square that appeared in the Volksstimme as falsified. The district court established the authenticity and sentenced the tribune to compensation of 1,000 marks.
As a party newspaper, the tribune took a partisan stance in favor of the KPD. For example, after a double murder of two members of the Reichsbanner in Pömmelte, the act was ascribed to the National Socialists , although the perpetrators admitted their membership in the KPD-affiliated Red Aid . The tribune later admitted this, but stated that the two should be viewed as Nazi informers.
From 1924 to 1927 Bernhard Almstadt was managing director of the newspaper. Franz Moericke was editor-in-chief of the tribune from 1927 to 1930, and Fritz Beyling from 1930/31 . Fritz Sattler was the head of the publishing house from August 1, 1930 to 1932 . Friedrich Rödel and Georg Singer worked as editors for the stands. From 1930, Karl Schmidt also worked in the editorial department from 1931 onwards Jenny Matern . Martin Schwantes worked for the newspaper from 1932. Eva Lippold worked here as a typist from 1931.
The grandstand was forcibly closed at the end of 1933 after the National Socialists came to power . On February 28, 1933, Communist and Social Democratic newspapers were banned across the Reich. It then appeared illegally for some time. The printing was done by Willi Kutz and the resistance group Müller-Kühne. Fritz Beyling was responsible for the publication and distribution of the illegal tribune until July 1933. In the case of illegality, Hans Hauschulz was also active in the distribution for the tribune . Hermann Bruse made illustrations.
literature
- “Tribüne” Communist daily newspaper for the Magdeburg-Anhalt district in Magdeburg , Dari-Verlag, Berlin-Helensee 1927, page 263
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Tribune" Communist daily newspaper for the Magdeburg-Anhalt district in Magdeburg , Dari-Verlag, Berlin-Helensee 1927, page 263
- ↑ Beatrix Herlemann, The feuding brothers in the former SPD district of Magdeburg , page 19, published in abbreviated form in issue 6 of the "Contributions to the History of Social Democracy in Saxony-Anhalt", published by the "Historical Commission of the SPD Regional Association Saxony-Anhalt" ( PDF; 253 kB)
- ↑ Beatrix Herlemann, The feuding brothers in the former SPD district of Magdeburg , page 17, published in abbreviated form in issue 6 of the “Contributions to the History of Social Democracy in Saxony-Anhalt”, published by the “Historical Commission of the SPD Regional Association Saxony-Anhalt” ( PDF; 253 kB)
- ↑ Andreas Stein, On April 3, 1933, the Volksstimme is stormed by the SS ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
