Vorarlberger Volksblatt

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Vorarlberger Volksblatt

description Austrian newspaper
First edition June 15, 1866
attitude 1972
Article archive 1866 to 1938
ZDB 2782849-9

The Vorarlberger Volksblatt was a daily newspaper that appeared in Vorarlberg from 1866 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1972.

history

The Vorarlberger Volksblatt was founded in 1866, as a daily newspaper since 1887. The political orientation was Christian, social and strictly conservative , the editorial team was permanently headed by Catholic clergy and in the period of publication up to 1938 was partly explicitly anti-Semitic .

During the emergence of National Socialism after 1930, the Volksblatt fought vehemently against the anti-clerical mood that was spreading. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, the editorial staff was occupied, the editor-in-chief Georg Schelling was arrested some time later and the newspaper was discontinued after four weeks.

After the Second World War , the Volksblatt was reissued as the party newspaper of the ÖVP Vorarlberg under the Press Association as owner and publisher. In March 1946 the Allied Council imposed a four-week publication ban on the paper because of Nazism , militarism and Pan-Germanism , and thus the violation of the press decree of October 1, 1945. According to its own statements, the daily lost "several thousand readers" as a result of this incident.

The growing competition between the Vorarlberger Nachrichten , which was founded in 1945 and which was soon able to establish itself as the paper with the highest circulation, finally led to the final discontinuation of the Vorarlberger Volksblatt in 1972 . At the same time, the Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung was founded as a counter force to the influential Vorarlberger Nachrichten .

Alignment and tendencies

Before 1938

The clerical-Catholic newspaper came up with massively anti-Semitic articles as early as the late 19th century, which reflected the anti-Semitism of the Catholic-conservative camp in Vorarlberg as a central political element of the time. After the collapse of the monarchy, anti-Semitism was often linked with separatist tendencies aimed at breaking away from “Jewish” Vienna .

But also xenophobic tendencies, especially against the heavy immigration of workers from northern Italy, were unmistakable. Politically, the Vorarlberger Volksblatt turned against the political enemies of the Christian Socialists , the Socialists , Communists , Liberals and National Socialists and supported Austrofascism .

After the Second World War

After the Second World War, the Vorarlberger Volksblatt saw itself as the official party newspaper of the ÖVP and as a counterpoint to the Vorarlberger Nachrichten , which was also Christian conservative .

literature

  • Helmut W. Lang (Ed.): Austrian Retrospective Bibliography (ORBI). Row 2: Austrian Newspapers 1492–1945. Volume 3: Helmut W. Lang, Ladislaus Lang, Wilma Buchinger: Bibliography of Austrian newspapers 1621–1945. N-Z. Edited at the Austrian National Library. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23385-X , p. 376.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Development of the Vorarlberg media landscape in the Second Republic, Vorarlberger Presseclub, s. Web links
  2. ↑ Two reports on the Reich Association of Catholic German Youth in Austria 1935 Article from May 8 and 29, 1935

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