Newspapers and magazines in Hemer
Newspapers and magazines in Hemer have been around since 1886 when the first local newspaper started its work. In the following decades, different publishers maintained editorial offices in Hemer. Since 2000, however, the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger und Zeitung has been in a monopoly position as the city's only newspaper editorial team. Four times a year, the Hemer Citizens and Local History Association also publishes the magazine Der Schlüssel , which mainly contains reports on local history. The same applies to the monothematic journal Die Fibel , which appears at irregular intervals.
Local newspapers
Beginnings of the Hemeraner press
Local newspapers have been in Hemer since 1886, when the "Hemer-Zeitung" was probably first published. A book printer produced 400 copies for the 5,000 inhabitants of the community, but had to give up printing a year later for economic reasons. In the meantime, no copies of the “Hemer-Zeitung” have survived.
On March 22, 1893, the first edition of the “Hemerschen Zeitung. General Gazette for the district of Hemer and the surrounding area ”, which was published only twice a week, but three times a week in October 1893. After the population had increased sharply at the turn of the century, the newspaper appeared daily from 1905. The publisher and editor of the paper were the Burris brothers, who shaped the Hemeraner press until the end of the Second World War. In 1909 the editors adopted the subtitle “Märkischer Landbote. Independent daily newspaper and general gazette for the entire eastern district of Iserlohn and the adjacent areas of the districts of Arnsberg and Hamm ”, which acted as the main title from 1917.
According to its own information, the Hemersche Zeitung took an impartial standpoint, but is nevertheless assigned to the national liberal and anti-socialist area. In 1917 the Landbote became the "official announcement organ" of the Iserlohn district and the Hemeraner office until the official assembly on June 5, 1934, after the National Socialists came to power, decided to publish the announcements in the Westphalian state newspaper - Rote Erde . The Hemeraner editors lost an important source of income, so that in the same year they sold the publishing rights to the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger. The last “Märkische Landbote” appeared on July 23, 1934.
The edition had increased sixfold from 600 printed copies in 1895 to 1914. Shortly before it was discontinued, almost 2,700 copies were produced daily. The newspaper was published until April 12, 1945 as " Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger und Zeitung " with the subtitles "Hemersche Zeitung" and "Märkischer Landbote". The newspaper, which in the last years of the Weimar Republic was close to the German National People's Party, was owned by the National Socialist rulers accepted and could appear quite easily until the invasion of the US armed forces.
Party political press titles
Due to the global economic crisis and the rise of extreme parties in the Weimar Republic , an increasing number of party-political papers appeared in Hemer. The KPD is particularly well represented in the heavily industrialized districts like Sundwig . Presumably from April 1930 onwards, the KPD party sheet “Der Volltreffer. Organ of the Hemer Workers' Union ”, which was primarily widespread among factory workers in Hemer, Sundwig and Deilinghofen . In Sundwig, where the paper was also produced, the KPD achieved 41.4 percent in the Reichstag election in November 1932, for example.
The first three, each six-page editions were politically so sensitive that the main shareholder and the operations manager of Sundwiger Messingwerk then filed a complaint against the two publishers for insult. The Iserlohn judge then actually sentenced the defendants to fines roughly equivalent to a weekly wage. Another fine followed at the beginning of 1932.
From autumn 1931 the newspaper was treated as a leaflet and was subject to corresponding censorship regulations. Thereupon the Sundwig editors changed the title to “The United Front. Organ of the Hemerschen Arbeiterschaft ”, in the summer of 1932 in“ The mouthpiece of the German united front ”. From December 1932 until the ban in 1933, the only four-page sheet was again known as a “direct hit”. As the main opponent, the sheet primarily attacks the NSDAP and SPD .
As a counterpart, the National Socialist newspaper “Der Arbeiter. Weekly publication of the National Socialist Company Cell Organization, Gross-Hemer Department ”published. The sheet is similar to the KPD font in terms of size and design. In terms of content, the editors primarily attack the Communist Party.
The views of the SPD in the Hemeraner area were mainly represented by the “Neue Freie Presse” from Lüdenscheid , which was founded in 1919 as the USPD's tendency paper . The Nazi party newspaper " Westfälische Landeszeitung - Rote Erde " from the Ruhr area also appeared in the late years of the Weimar Republic and after the Nazi seizure of power in Hemer.
Hemeraner press after 1945
After the end of the war, official notices were published in official papers of the British occupying forces, which appeared until 1950. In 1946 the Allies approved the establishment of the CDU license paper Westfalenpost , which over time also opened an editorial office in Hemer. The Westfälische Rundschau was published in Hemer from 1947 onwards as it was closely related to the SPD . The Iserlohn editors also took on the reporting from Hemer. The Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger, on the other hand, only appeared again after the Basic Law came into force in 1949. Publishers who were already active before 1945 were still banned from doing press work between the end of the war and the establishment of the state.
In the first post-war years, trend papers from other parties were also distributed in Hemer. The “Neue Westfälische Kurier” from Werl , the “Rhein-Ruhr-Zeitung” from Essen and the “Märkische Volksblatt” from Hamm appeared for the German Center Party . FDP license sheet was the "Westdeutsche Tageblatt" based in Dortmund. The “Westdeutsche Volksecho” and “Freiheit”, which were banned in the 1950s, came from the KPD.
The "Felsenmeer-Zeitung" was the weekly newspaper. Independent local paper for the city and the office of Hemer ”, which started in 1955 and was discontinued towards the end of the 1950s. The "Hemer-Kurier" appeared every two weeks from 1980, later also as a weekly newspaper. A total of 1,600 copies sold were not enough for economic operation, which is why the newspaper was converted into an advertising paper. When this principle also failed because there were too few advertisers, the title was sold in 1988 to Wichelhoven-Verlag, which also publishes the IKZ. The paper ran as “Märkischer Anzeiger” until it was discontinued in 1993.
In the daily newspapers, the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger had the greatest success with a market share of around two thirds. In 1982 the sheet appeared with a circulation of around 25,000 copies. The Rundschau, which continued to operate an editorial office for both cities in Iserlohn, was less successful. In 1992 the IKZ circulation was 28,000 copies, of which about 7,000 were sold in Hemer.
The free advertising paper “ Stadtspiegel ” has been published every Wednesday since October 1978 , and the Iserlohn editors also produce the Hemeran title. Since 1998 a Sunday edition has also been produced. The “Wochenkurier”, whose editorial office Iserlohn-Letmathe-Hemer is also based in Iserlohn, has been distributed every Saturday since 1990. Both titles have a circulation of over 60,000 copies per issue.
Changes since 1990
At the end of the 1980s there were major changes in the Hemeraner press. The WAZ group , which already published the Westfalenpost in Hemer and held the majority in the Westfälische Rundschau, took over a stake in the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger. In this context, the WP editorial office in Hemer was closed and the readers were handed over to the IKZ. In return, the Kreisanzeiger took over the supraregional WP cover and thus ended the collaboration with Dirk Ippen's publishing group . He reacted in 1990 and founded the "Neue Hemeraner Presse", which was discontinued in December 1990 after ten months. The Iserlohn editors had previously also looked after the Hemer local section before their own editorial office was opened in Hemer, which closed again six weeks later.
The establishment of a Hemeraner WR editorial office in 1989 was more successful. Even though only a few Hemeraner had read the local pages created in Iserlohn before, the Rundschau was able to establish itself in the rock sea town. In autumn 2000, however, this local office was also closed. The WR continues to appear, but has since taken over the local section from the IKZ. Both sheets are distributed by the publishing house "IKZ / AV" and produced in the Hagen-Bathey printing center . The IKZ local editorial team employs three permanent and some freelance editors.
Other magazines
The key
The Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer eV has published the magazine Der Schlüssel four times a year since 1955 . Leaflets of the homeland for the town and office of Hemer , which is dedicated to topics of local history. Editors are volunteers at the Heimatverein, and there are regular guest contributions from politicians and other public figures on current topics in Hemer and the region. The small home chronicle section contains a list of current events in Hemer and has appeared in every issue since 1960. The initiator of the project was the local history researcher Friedhelm Treude, who also took over the editorial management in the first few years until his death in 1975.
The primer
The primer is a series of writings that appear irregularly and each deepens a local history topic. So far ten issues have been published on the following topics:
- District Administrator Peter Eberhard Müllensiefen in the service of the public, published in 1963
- The coin treasure found by Hemer-Westig 1949, published in 1967
- Friedrich Erdmann - Missionary in Labrador , published in 1968
- The Hemer area under Napoleonic rule, published in 1973
- Old mining in the former office of Hemer , published in 1980
- Churches, bells, organs in the Hemer urban area, published in 2001
- Hemeraner school history (s), published in 2007
- The Pfänder family , published in 2007
- Hemeraner school history (s), part II, published in 2013
- Bibliography Hemer, published 2017
General-Anzeiger für Philatelie
The Hemeraner Christian Sauerland published the General-Anzeiger für Philatelie in 1883, the world's first stamp magazine. Through his work in a paper factory, Sauerland got to know postage stamps as a way of spending free time. At the age of 24 he published the first edition of the General-Anzeiger, the publication frequency of which was initially one month, later 10 days. The circulation rose to 30,000 copies, of which around 40 percent were delivered abroad. The booklets were around 30 pages long. By 1900 the General-Anzeiger became the official organ of announcement of stamp associations from all over the world, and the advertisements were also placed worldwide. Around this time Sauerland gave up his job at the paper mill to devote himself entirely to the magazine. In 1908 he moved the publishing house to Ludwigslust . The magazine was published until Sauerland's death in 1944 and between 1949 and the 1950s.
literature
- Stopsack, Hans-Hermann: The Hemeraner press landscape in: From office to city. Self-published, Hemer 2000, ISBN 3-00-006685-3
- Stopsack, Arne H. and Stopsack, Hans-Hermann: Communist journalism in Hemer 1930-1933 in: The key. Hemer 1991.
Individual evidence
- ^ DerWesten.de : Conversations with the newspaper makers , May 1, 2009
- ↑ Citizens and local history association Hemer: The key , accessed on April 24, 2019
- ↑ Georg Mieders: 25 years: The key. in: Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer e. V. (Ed.): The key. Hemer 1980.
- ↑ Citizens and Local History Association Hemer: The Primer , accessed on July 9, 2019
- ^ Friedhelm Treude: The first stamp magazine in the world. in: Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer e. V. (Ed.): The key. Hemer 1959.