Volkswille (SPD newspaper)
Der Volkswille was a social-democratic daily newspaper in Hanover, which appeared for the first time - after an advertising copy on September 13, 1890 - immediately after the repeal of the Socialist Act on October 1, 1890. Before, during and after the First World War, she was the mouthpiece of the SPD leadership, which followed a moderate-legalistic course .
The successor to the popular will was the Hannoversche Presse after the license was granted on July 18, 1946 .
description
The newspaper had the subtitle Organ for the Interests of the Working People in the Province of Hanover and appeared six times a week. The headline was the " Osnabrück Evening Post ". SPD members were obliged to subscribe to the popular will: in 1908 the newspaper had 28,300 subscribers, in March 1913 it had 33,420 (19,524 of them in Hanover and Linden alone ). The respective local party executive led the supervision. The number of copies given in the annual reports was: 20,000 (1906), 29,200 (1908), 30,000 (1910), 35,000 (1914), 22,000 (1926).
history
The first editorial office initially took up quarters at Marktstrasse 45; after further provisional interim solutions, the new party and trade union building in Nikolaistrasse was moved into (today's Goseriede No. 4).
The first managing director was August Lohrberg , then from 1905 the printer and chairman of the SPD district organization Hanover (1896–1921) Ludwig Dörnke . The first leading editors were the later members of the Reichstag, Friedrich Rauch and Emanuel Wurm . Other well-known editors were Friedrich Westmeyer and Robert Leinert .
From March 1925, like all other party operations, Volkswille was assigned to the concentration AG , the umbrella company of the social democratic newspaper operations. In 1930, 153 workers and clerks worked for the will of the people in the three departments of bookstore, newspaper and printing. Their emblem (three arrows) was added to the title after the Iron Front was founded in 1932. At that time, the circulation was around 60,000 copies. A well-known editor from this time is Arno Scholz .
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists an issue for the first time was (the February 4, 1933) by the Chief of Police confiscated add the introduction came a treason proceedings against the newspaper and the responsible editor Karl Raloff .
More injunctions related spending from 17 to 21 February 1933. On February 28, then took first another, but biweekly repeatedly extended ban, which then de facto led to the final end of the newspaper: After the occupation of the union house by the 12th SS standard on April 1, 1933, the machinery had to be handed over to the National Socialist Lower Saxony daily newspaper (NTZ) .
Editors
- Ernst Andrée (1911 to 1922)
literature
- F. Feldmann: History of the Hanover local association of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , 1952, v. a. P. 55ff.
- Volkswille , celebration number for the 40th anniversary on October 1, 1930
- Anke Dietzler: Elimination, conformity, adjustment - the Hanover daily newspapers after the National Socialist takeover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 41 (1987), pp. 193-271; here: p. 203ff.
- Klaus Mlynek : People's will. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 648.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Mlynek: Hannoversche Presse. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 262f.
- ↑ Kurt Koszyk / Gerhard Eisfeld: "Die Presse der Deutschen Sozialdemokratie", 1st edition Bonn 1966, p. 119. Kurt Koszyk / Gerhard Eisfeld: "Die Presse der Deutschen Sozialdemokratie", 2nd exp. Edition Bonn 1980, p. 137.
- ↑ A DIN A3 overview sheet of the Hannoversche daily newspapers in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library records this date as the last issue date