New Austrian daily newspaper

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The New Austrian daily newspaper was an Austrian post-war newspaper. It appeared for the first time on June 22, 1947 as a daily Vienna newspaper and was later renamed. It was the central organ of the ÖVP under Chancellor Julius Raab . It was published until May 15, 1964 .

In the editorial , the party political connection is made clear: “If we therefore officially label our new paper today as the central organ of the Austrian People's Party, that is, as an organ of a generation that has clearly and unambiguously committed to a certain program, then we will this on purpose ”. The focus is on "what we consider right in the interests of our homeland", the "interests of Austria". A distinction is made between a “state”, “party” and a “popular interest”: “State interest takes precedence over party interest”, “Popular interest is higher than the state interest” ( Wiener Tageszeitung , June 22nd, 1947, p. 1– 2).

Julius Raab was not only significantly involved in the founding, but also "regularly depicted on the front page in a hand-shaking pose and is unlikely to have ever found a half-sentence on the inside that did not meet his taste one hundred percent," writes Peter Muzik, founding member of the Wirtschaftsblatt .

After the KPÖ published parts of the files of the Reich Association of the German Press on 10.1.1948 , in which the activities of the then editor-in-chief Helmut Schuster were documented, he was excluded from the journalists' union and Schuster was re-employed by the "Steirerblatt". Schuster became editor-in-chief again in 1955.

Hugo Portisch was employed by the newspaper from January 1948 and from 1950 to 1953 head of foreign policy.

In January 1950 the “Wiener Tageszeitung” was renamed the “Neue Wiener Tageszeitung” (the subtitle with reference to the ÖVP was also deleted); in the end it was called “Neue Tageszeitung” and was discontinued after Julius Raab's death.

It is not to be confused with the Wiener Zeitung .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ aeiou.at. Retrieved January 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Quotation from Dzugan, Franziska: 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 or 1947 to 1955 . Univ. Vienna, Diss. 2011, available online at: https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC08782188 (last on June 14, 2020), here p. 50.
  3. ↑ Muzik, Peter: Die Zeitungsmacher. Austria's press. Power, opinions and billions , Vienna 1984, quoted. n. Dzugan, Franziska: Chameleons in the forest of leaves . Univ. Vienna, Diss. 2011, here p. 51.
  4. ↑ Cf. Dzugan, Franziska: Chameleons in the forest of leaves . Univ. Vienna, Diss. 2011, p. 50.
  5. ↑ Cf. Dzugan, Franziska: Chameleons in the forest of leaves . Univ. Vienna, Diss. 2011, p. 53.
  6. ↑ Cf. Dzugan, Franziska: Chameleons in the forest of leaves . Univ. Vienna, Diss. 2011, p. 51.
  7. ↑ Cf. Dzugan, Franziska: Chameleons in the forest of leaves . Univ. Vienna, Diss. 2011, p. 53.