Newspaper stamp

Newspaper stamp from Ouerfurther Kreisblatt, issue of January 26, 1856

The newspaper stamp was a stamp on periodical newspapers and magazines , which was used in Europe from the late 17th to the end of the 19th century (e.g. England from 1711, Austria from 1789 and from 1822 in Germany).

The newspaper stamp should indicate that newspaper tax was paid on the particular copy of the newspaper . The newspaper tax served, among other things, to withhold newspapers with political content from the general public as an information medium. The main purpose, however, was to use this tax to increase government revenue (as did the calendar stamp ). As an advertisement stamp, the newspaper stamp served as an additional tax on top of the trade tax .

See also

• Press Act, 7 May 1874 version

literature

• Konrad Dussel: German daily press in the 19th and 20th centuries . LIT Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6811-7 .
• Meyers Konversationslexikon . 4th edition. Volume: Uralsk - Zz.Brockhaus, Leipzig 1885.
• Brockhaus Konversationslexikon . 14th edition. Turkestan - Zz.LIT Verlag, Berlin 1894.

Further literature

• Georg Elkan: The Prussian newspaper tax . A contribution to the history of press policy using files from Bismarck and the Prussian ministries. Fischer, Jena 1922 (72 pages, a treatise from the seminar for newspaper studies and newspaper practice in Berlin).

Web links

• Newspaper fee stamps as cancellation stamps for fiscal stamps. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fiskalphilatelie eV, accessed on January 12, 2015 . 
• The newspaper stamp - also a stamp tax. Wolfgang Morscheck, Baden-Württemberg, archived from the original on February 26, 2008 ; accessed on May 30, 2019 (original website no longer available). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Schmidt: Contributions to a company history of the German book trade - Abel - Dyke . In: German booksellers. German book printer. tape 1 . Verlag der Buchdruckerei Franz Weber, Berlin 1902, p. 183 ( online [accessed January 12, 2015]).