People's newspaper (Carinthia)

The Volkszeitung was a newspaper that appeared in Carinthia and East Tyrol from 1945 to 1990 .

It was founded in 1945 by the Austrian People's Party , initially as a weekly newspaper . Only the first edition appeared under the title Kärntner Volkszeitung , after that the title Volkszeitung was used. From 1946 the Volkszeitung appeared as a daily newspaper . The editor-in-chief was initially Josef Maier, followed in 1971 by Walter Raming. In the same year a newspaper network was formed: The Salzburger Volkszeitung and the Tiroler Nachrichten appeared as the headers of the Kärntner Volkszeitung. In February 1990 the newspaper was discontinued.

Employee

• Georg Drozdowski
• Antonia Gössinger
• Gisela Hopfmüller
• Larissa Krainer
• Ingomar Pust
• Herbert Strutz
• Ida Weiss

literature

• Franziska Dzugan: Chameleons in the forest of leaves. The roots of the ÖVP party journalists in Austrofascism, National Socialism, democracy and resistance. A collective biographical analysis using the examples "Wiener Tageszeitung" and "Linzer Volksblatt" 1945 and 1947 to 1955 , respectively . Dissertation, Vienna, 2011.