People's Watch (Danzig)

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People's Watch

description Organ of the working population in West Prussia
Frequency of publication weekly / twice weekly / daily

The People's Watch was a social democratic newspaper that was published in Gdansk from 1910 to 1919 . At first the People's Watch appeared weekly. From 1913 it was published twice a week. In 1914 it became a daily newspaper. The Gdańsk People's Watch was subtitled as the organ of the working population in West Prussia . It was a free trade union newspaper .

The People's Watch was founded in September 1910. August Bebel wrote an editorial for the first edition.

Due to financial difficulties, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) did not have its own party newspaper in Danzig for a long time. The newspaper received financial support from the party headquarters in Berlin . Arthur Crispien was editor-in-chief from 1910 to 1912. After that Gustav Schröder was editor-in-chief.

The Gdańsk People's Watch played an important role in spreading social democratic sentiment in the region. It had just as many readers as the bourgeois Danziger Zeitung . Articles in political affairs were mostly about takeovers from the SPD central organ Vorwärts , while the editors of the Danziger Volkswacht dealt primarily with regional issues.

During the First World War, the Danzig People's Guard was under preventive censorship.

In 1917 Julius Gehl became editor-in-chief of Volkwacht. After the November Revolution, the newspaper got more readers. In 1920 the People's Watch was replaced by the Danzig Volksstimme .

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  1. ↑ a b c d Marek Andrzejewski: Prasa gdańska na przestrzeni wieków . Wydawn. "Marpress" January 1, 1999, ISBN 978-83-87291-56-3 , pp. 28, 76, 185.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Marek Andrzejewski: The social democratic party in the free city of Danzig: 1920-1936 . GTN, 1980, ISBN 978-83-04-00706-2 , p. 10.
  3. ^ Fritz Schultz: The political daily press of West Prussia . Schultz, 1913, p. 29.
  4. ^ Jörg Riecke, Britt-Marie Schuster: German-language newspapers in Central and Eastern Europe: Linguistic form, historical embedding and cultural traditions . Weidler Buchverlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89693-419-2 , p. 161.
  5. ↑ Kurt Koszyk: The press of the German social democracy . sn., 1966, p. 92.
  6. ↑ Bogusław Leśnodorski: Konferencja pomorska 1954 . Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe, 1956, p. 207.
  7. ↑ Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss : Politics, Economy, Public Life. . Walter de Gruyter, January 1, 1980, ISBN 978-3-11-097028-9 , p. 118.
  8. ↑ Hermann Molkenbuhr: Workers' leaders , parliamentarians, party veterans: the diaries of the social democrat Hermann Molkenbuhr 1905 to 1927 . Oldenburg Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-486-56424-2 , p. 341.
  9. ↑ a b Södertörns Högskola. Center for Baltic and East European Studies: Borderland identities: territory and belonging in Central, North and East Europe . Förlags from Gondolin, 2006, ISBN 978-91-88821-99-7 , p. 382.
  10. ^ Frank H. Lancaster, Ernest F. Birmingham: Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests . Fourth Estate Publishing Company, 1917, p. 26.
  11. ^ The German-language press: A biographical-bibliographical handbook . Walter de Gruyter, January 1, 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-096157-7 , p. 321.