Association of Central and East German Newspaper Publishers
The Association of Central and East German Newspaper Publishers (VMOZV) was an association of newspaper publishers from 1952 to 1993 who had published newspapers in the areas of the German Reich east of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1937. In this association they should join together and represent their interests for the Soviet-occupied areas or areas ceded to Poland.
The association was founded in July 1952 in Wiesbaden by eight members and had there in Weinbergstr. 31 its seat. The statutes of the association were drawn up on July 18, 1952. From the beginning, the VMOZV was an equal member of what was then the Association of German Newspaper Publishers . The membership grew over the years, peaking at 300 in 1960.
Prominent members of the association were Karl Boldt from Rostock ( Rostocker Anzeiger ), Klaus Herfurth from Leipzig ( Leipziger Latest News ), Friedrich Faber from Magdeburg ( Magdeburgische Zeitung ), Harald Huck from Dresden ( Dresdner Latest News , Hallische Nachrichten ), Johann Ludwig Neuenhahn from Jena ( Jenaische Zeitung ) and Karl Basch from Gera ( Geraer Zeitung ). The focus of the VMOZV was aimed at resuming traditional activities as a publishers' association and preparing for this integration in the event that the occupied eastern territories were incorporated into the German federal territory. The Association and the Association of Social Democratic Newspaper Publishers and Printing Companies in Central and Eastern Germany took part in the reunification plans initiated by the Federal Ministry for All-German Issues and its Research Advisory Board for issues relating to the reunification of Germany .
Other areas of activity of the association concerned issues of compensation to publishers as a result of the effects of the war, issues of exercising property rights for the unused newspaper titles and providing for old age for those publishers and their relatives who had lost their assets and thus also their old-age pensions in the occupied territories.
After reunification in 1990, the old publishers hoped to be able to resume activities as a regular publishers' association in the new federal states. However, there was a conflict of interests with the members of the West German Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV), who refused any cooperation with the remaining old publishers because the West German publishers themselves wanted to operate in the GDR. Thus the main task of the VMOZV could no longer be implemented and the few remaining members decided on June 29, 1991 to dissolve the VMOZV. With the deletion from the register of the Wiesbaden District Court on July 15, 1993, the history of the association also ended legally.
literature
- Otto Altendorfer, The Media System of the Federal Republic of Germany 2 , Wiesbaden 2004
- C. Heymanns, The Federal Republic of Germany State Handbook , 1978
Individual evidence
- ↑ The full name of the association was the Association of Central and East German Newspaper Publishers and Owner of Graphic Companies eV
- ^ A b c Stefan Matysiak: Completely repressed: The old East German publishers and their activities in West Germany. in: Germany Archive, No. 5, 2008, pp. 867–876
- ↑ In this source the founding date of the VMOZV is incorrectly given as 1955