People's Law (newspaper)

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First issue of popular law , April 1, 1898

The People's Law was a Swiss social democratic daily from Zurich . In the meantime it traded under the name Zürcher AZ , in the end under the non-German abbreviation DAZ .

history

People's Law (1898–1969)

People's Law - August 6, 1923 edition

The People's Law was founded in 1898 as a social democrat - union founded daily newspaper in Zurich. Their forerunners were the workers' newspapers Die Tagwacht (1870–1880) and Die Arbeiterstimme (1881–1908), which, however, did not appear daily. The first issue was published on April 1, 1898. The printing of folk law was originally located at the Waldmannstrasse in the old town, then from 1906 at the Stauffacherstrasse 3 and 5. From 1914 there was a collaboration with the Winterthur AZ which the popular law the national Sides took over. Ernst Nobs , who was an editor in Lucerne from 1912 to 1915 and then at the St. Galler Volksstimme , served as editor-in-chief from 1915 until he was elected to the government council of the canton of Zurich in 1934. At that time, Volksrecht was the largest social democratic daily newspaper in Switzerland.

In 1924, the Schaffhauser Tagwacht was also printed in Zurich as a daily organ of the Social Democratic Party after the local party newspaper Arbeiterzeitung had been taken over by the Communist Party. However, the Schaffhausen Tagwacht temporarily stopped its publication as early as 1925. In 1929 the SP tried again to gain a foothold with the Schaffhausen Tagwacht , but it only appeared three times a week.

On the night of August 19, 1933, three frontists carried out a bomb attack in front of the editorial office, in which a window was destroyed.

Zurich AZ (1970–1973)

In 1970 the newspapers Freie Aargauer (Aarau), Thurgauer AZ (Arbon), AZ Abendzeitung (Basel), Freie Innerschweiz (Lucerne), Das Volk (Olten), Volksstimme (St. Gallen), Schaffhauser AZ , Oberländer AZ (Wetzikon), the people's law, now trading as Zürcher AZ , and Winterthur AZ form an association with a common national shell. Then AZ produced the joint part for one year . At the end of 1972 the attempt failed for financial reasons. The Zurich AZ made on alone and could her coat even the Winterthur AZ offer. At the end of 1973, the Zurich AZ was financially at the end and stopped its publication. Until 1976 it appeared under the name AZ as a social democratic and union weekly newspaper.

People's Law (1977-1992)

From 1988, the people's law appeared together with the Ostschweizer AZ (St. Gallen), the Schaffhauser AZ , the Berner Tagwacht and the Winterthurer AZ in a header system with common cover pages, which were produced in Schaffhausen. These were now no longer explicitly social democratic or trade union, but left-green.

DAZ (1992–1997)

In 1992, the Green Party was included in the expanded sponsorship to give the newspaper a broader base. The red title gave way to black lettering with the abbreviation DAZ. The acoustic proximity to the German taz was obvious, but the abbreviation was never translated into German . The President of the Stadtzürcher SP, Koni Loepfe, remained editor-in-chief. DAZ appeared Monday to Friday and saw itself as «independent, social, ecological».

In 1997 the newspaper was to be relaunched as an evening newspaper in the street. However, a donor who had promised a larger sum to rebuild and expand the paper withdrew at short notice. The morning edition had already been discontinued at this point.

literature

  • Friedrich Heeb (Red.): From the history of the Zurich workers' movement. Memorandum for the 50th anniversary of the “People's Law” 1898–1948 . Zurich 1948.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heeb: From the history of the Zurich workers' movement. 1948, p. 28.
  2. ↑ a b c Irène Troxler: One Hundred Years of Winterthur from left: red ink, sharp pen ( memento from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War. Switzerland and the gold transactions in World War II. Short biography. Biographical information. Ernst Nobs (1886–1957). In: Chronos Verlag website
  4. ^ Article by Ernst Nobs (as of January 7, 2008).
  5. ↑ NZZ , June 17, 1934: The leader who fled to Germany was fined 60 francs, the other two perpetrators to 30 francs.
  6. ^ People's Law / DAZ. In: Website of the Swiss Social Archives
  7. ^ Museum: Press Cemetery. DAZ ( Memento from January 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ). In: Media Trend Journal
  8. ↑ Various articles in DAZ ; Letter to the former subscribers