Central organ

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Zentralorgan or Centralorgan is an outdated term for an association journal.

Journalistic examples

Early examples include Die Welt as the central organ of the Zionist Association (a central bulletin of the early Zionist movement ), the central organ for all of surgery and its border areas as an important medical journal in the 19th century, such as the DIN-Mitteilungen as the central organ of German standardization of German Institute for Standardization , " Kitchen and Cellar " as the "Central Organ for the Hotel and Restaurant Industry".

The term has been preserved in the official newspapers and magazines of socialist and workers' parties since their emergence and is also used in a figurative sense.

Examples of use in the left-wing environment are Vorwärts , the SPD party newspaper, and Die Rote Fahne in the German and Austrian edition as the central organ of the respective CP . In the GDR , the block parties and mass organizations each published their own central organs: Neues Deutschland ( SED ), Bauernecho ( DBD ), Neue Zeit ( CDU ), Der Morgen ( LDPD ), National-Zeitung ( NDPD ), Tribüne ( FDGB ), Junge Welt ( FDJ ).

In a figurative sense, the term is used for a body-and-stomach leaf of a certain community. The computer magazine c't was described in the Spiegel as the central organ of nerd istan . The mention of important opinion leaders who serve as gatekeepers in the journalistic sense and suppress unpleasant opinions is somewhat more negative . Both aspects combined the fanzine central organ of Dynamo Dresden , whose title alludes to the party compliant past of the former East German flagship football club. It is published by the Ultras Dynamo fan group .

From 1997 to 2002 there was the neo-Nazi magazine central organ from the spectrum of the free comradeships .

Web links

Wiktionary: Central organ  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• GDR knowledge: central organ
• Joachim Nawrocki : The press as a propaganda drum , Die Zeit , May 22, 1970

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birgit Wolf: Language in the GDR. A dictionary . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-080592-5 , pp. 255 .
2. ↑ Frank Patalong : 25 years of "c't". Central organ of Nerdistan. In: Spiegel Online . October 31, 2008, accessed September 17, 2018 .