Wiesbaden courier

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Wiesbaden courier
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description German daily newspaper
publishing company Wiesbadener Kurier GmbH & Co. Verlag und Druckerei KG
First edition October 2, 1945
Frequency of publication daily Monday to Saturday
Sold edition 45,998 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Widespread edition 36,956 copies
( Publisher information 2017 )
Range 0.18 million readers
( ma TZ 2017 )
Editor-in-chief Stefan Schröder
editor VRM
Web link wiesbadener-kurier.de
ZDB 126021-2
Facade of the Wiesbadener Kurier press house in the Wiesbaden pedestrian zone

The Wiesbadener Kurier is a German-language daily newspaper that appears in the Hessian capital Wiesbaden . It is published by VRM GmbH & Co. KG , as is its much smaller “city competitor”, the Wiesbadener Tagblatt . The edition of the Wiesbadener Kurier is not shown separately and is around 53,000 copies. Kurier and Tagblatt have had identical content since 2013 and together have sold 45,998 copies, a decrease of 43.9 percent since 1998.

The headquarters are in the press building in the Wiesbaden pedestrian zone (Langgasse 21). The editor-in-chief is Stefan Schröder.

history

After the end of the Second World War , the publication of newspapers required a license from the (in this case American) occupying power. The US military authorities mistrusted the old publishers and only issued licenses to politically reliable persons who had not previously worked as publishers (so-called license press ).

The Wiesbadener Tagblatt was published in Wiesbaden until 1943 . Its publisher, Gustav Schellenberg , not only did not receive a license, his printing plant was also confiscated and made available to the licensees of the new Wiesbaden courier . The Wiesbadener Kurier was the fourth licensed newspaper in Hessen after the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Marburger Presse and the Hessische Nachrichten .

The former center member Georg Alfred Mayer and Fritz Otto Ulm , who was close to the SPD , became the publisher (licensee) . As editor-in-chief, Ulm was primarily responsible for the content. The first edition appeared on October 2, 1945 with a print run of 90,000 copies. Initially, the newspaper appeared twice a week on Wednesday and Saturday. The subscription price was initially 1.55 Reichsmarks per month.

By order of the American military government of October 24, 1945, the distribution area of ​​the Wiesbadener Kurier and that of the Frankfurter Rundschau were delimited from one another. The Wiesbadener Kurier was responsible for the city of Wiesbaden, the Rheingau district and the Untertaunus district. Furthermore, the responsibility extended to parts of the Oberlahnkreis , the district of Limburg , the district of Usingen and the Main-Taunus-Kreis . From March 19, 1946, the newspaper appeared three days a week. Due to a lack of paper, the circulation fell to 65,000 copies on July 1, 1946. On September 1, 1946, the publication was extended to four days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday). The subscription price rose to 3.05 Reichsmarks. A Germany edition was introduced on August 1, 1946. However, this was already discontinued on January 31, 1948. The courier was published as a daily newspaper on July 31, 1948. From October 1, 1949 to 1963, the Höchst Kreisblatt appeared as the head of the Wiesbaden Courier .

1952 Robert Müller became the newspaper's third managing director. After Georg Mayer's death in August 1954, Müller and Ulm acquired his shares. On July 1, 1965, the Mainzer Verlagsanstalt (MVA) acquired the shares in the newspaper. The MVA had already acquired the Wiesbadener Tagblatt in 1950. From October 1968 on, Kurt Milte was editor-in-chief of the Wiesbadener Kurier.

In 2013, the Wiesbadener Kurier lost its status as a full editorial team, as the publisher combined the jacket production for the Kurier, Tagblatt and Allgemeine Zeitung in Mainz. This makes Wiesbaden the first state capital in Germany that no longer has a newspaper with its own full editorial team.

Edition

The edition of the Wiesbadener Kurier is shown together with the Wiesbadener Tagblatt . The two newspapers have lost a lot of circulation in recent years . The circulation sold has fallen by an average of 3.2% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 4.9%. It is currently 45,998 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 89.7 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 2.1 "  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 23.7"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b With Wiesbadener Tagblatt
  2. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  3. ↑ Georg Alfred Mayer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  4. ↑ One less full editorial team
  5. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  6. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  7. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )