Jenaer Volksblatt
The Jenaer Volksblatt was a local newspaper for the Jena area and appeared between 1890 and 1941. The first edition appeared on April 15, 1890. The newspaper founded by Ernst Abbe was intended to represent a social-liberal counterbalance to the conservative "Jenaische Zeitung". a. supported by Otto Schott and Siegfried Czapski . From September 1891 until it was forcibly closed on May 31, 1941, the Jena publisher Bernhard Vopelius published the newspaper and printed it in-house at Saalbahnhofstrasse 3–5. By 1934 at the latest, the circulation of 9,000 copies exceeded the print run of the Jenaische Zeitung. After Abbe's death in 1905, under the influence of Friedrich Schomerus , she tended towards national liberalism . From 1919 it was the organ of the German Democratic Party (DDP), from 1926 with the title "Independent democratic daily newspaper for Thuringia" (subtitle). The last edition is available for May 31, 1941; The reason for the suspension of the newspaper in the last issue is with the war economy and "to free people and material for other war-important purposes." After the Second World War he was no longer approved. The publishing house was sold to Otto Lochmann (1920-2006). Bernd Rolle took over the name in 2004 for his re-establishment. The supplement to Jena local history and history ("Old and new from home"), which came primarily from the pen of its co-editor Herbert Koch, was popular.
literature
- Kristian Philler: Art. Jenaer Volksblatt In: Matias Mieth, Rüdiger Stutz (Ed.): Jena. Lexicon on city history. Tümmel-Verlag, Berching 2018, pp. 325f.
- Jenny Brys: Spiritus Rector Ernst Abbe. The Jenaer Volksblatt - mouthpiece of left-wing liberalism in Thuringia. In: Journal for Thuringian History, Vol. 66/2012, pp. 177–204.
- Kristian Philler: "For unity and justice and freedom". The publisher Bernhard Vopelius (1864-1952) in Jena. In: The big city. The cultural-historical archive of Weimar-Jena. Vol. 1/2008, Jena, pp. 7-25.
Digital edition
In a joint project of the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB) and the Jena City Archives, the issues of the Jenaer Volksblatt were made accessible online in the UrMEL access platform for ThULB's multimedia offers.