Zollern-Alb-Courier
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| description | German daily newspaper |
| publishing company | Printing and publishing house Hermann Daniel GmbH & Co. KG. Operating company |
| First edition | October 1, 1848 |
| Frequency of publication | Monday to Saturday |
| Sold edition | 20,383 copies |
| Range | 0.09 million readers |
| Editor-in-chief | Klaus Irion |
| editor | Daniel Welte, Kevin Jetter |
| Web link | www.zak.de |
The Zollern-Alb-Kurier is a daily newspaper of regional importance. It has been published in a family business under various previous titles since 1848.
history
After Wilhelm Daniel ran the Ribler'sche Hofbuchdruckerei in Hechingen from 1844 and edited the "Hohenzollerische Blätter", he moved with his family to Balingen . The newspaper “Politisches Volksblatt für Stadt und Land” appeared there for the first time on October 1, 1848. Initially, 22 subscribers received his paper. From January 1, 1849, he gave the newspaper the title "Der Volksfreund" . The subtitle of the newspaper, which appears twice a week, was "Political entertainment and advertising paper from the Oberamt Balingen". A year later, he changed the title, presumably for economic reasons, to “Official and Intelligence Gazette for the Oberamtsbezirke Balingen, Sulz and Oberndorf”, but in 1867 Daniel returned to the title “Der Volksfreund”. The newspaper now had around 800 subscribers.
In 1867 Wilhelm Daniel handed over the business to his son Adolf. After purchasing his own typesetting machine in 1899, “Der Volksfreund” appeared daily.
In 1919 Adolf Daniel bequeathed the publishing house and the printing company to three of his five sons (Adolf, Alfred and Hermann Daniel). Thereupon they founded a GmbH. In 1927 the newspaper had a circulation of 5,000 copies a day.
In 1933 the publication of the “Volksfreundes” had to be stopped. The company took over the printing of the Nazi newspaper “Der Wille”. After the distribution area of the "Wille" reached far beyond the Balingen district, even in the Hechingen and Sigmaringen Hohenzollern region, there was a much higher circulation.
Due to differences of opinion among the brothers, the GmbH was dissolved in 1938 and converted into a sole proprietorship, it was called Hermann Daniel Buchdruckerei und Verlag .
After the end of the war in 1945, the "Official Bulletin of the District Office" was printed once a week with a circulation of 9,000 copies. In addition, the publishing house issued a Methodist magazine with the title “Friedensglocke” (circulation 16,000 copies). On September 21, 1945 the “ Schwäbische Tagblatt ” from Tübingen in the Balingen district and the wider area appeared for the first time , initially without a local section. This was only included in the then sparse pages in 1946 and set by the Daniel company.
Hermann Daniel's son-in-law, Wilhelm Ilg, took over the commercial management of the company, which at that time consisted of 16 people. Three years later, Erich F. Jetter joined the company as the second son-in-law.
On July 18, 1949, the "Schwäbische Verlagsgesellschaft" was founded. The aim is to publish their own newspapers, supported by a central editorial office. From August 27, 1949 the "Schwäbische Tagblatt" appeared with the subtitle "Balinger Volksfreund" or in the Ebingen area with the title "Ebinger Zeitung" and in the Tailfingen area with the title "Schmiecha Zeitung". As of October 17th, the subtitles became main titles. All three newspapers were printed on the Daniel rotary press. The jacket part came from the central editorial office in Tübingen.
In 1961, the publisher and book printer owner Hermann Daniel died. The company was continued by Wilhelm Ilg and Erich F. Jetter.
In 1968 the "Schwäbische Donauzeitung" was incorporated into the " Südwest Presse " and the central editorial office was moved from Tübingen to Ulm . On January 1, 1973, as part of the district reform, the titles of the daily newspapers were combined to form the overall title "Zollern-Alb-Kurier", the old titles remained as subtitles.
13 years later, in 1986, Klaus Jetter (son of Erich F. Jetter) took over the management of the publishing house.
Since 2004 the newspaper is no longer printed in the distribution area, but like some other daily newspapers in the printing center Neckar-Alb (Reutlingen- Betzingen ).
According to its own statements, the Zollern-Alb-Kurier has been publishing information on the Internet since 1997. Since February 2015, the majority of current and historical articles have been protected by a paywall and can only be accessed against payment.
In 2016, management passed to Daniel Welte (grandson of Erich F. Jetter) and Kevin Jetter (son of Klaus Jetter and grandson of Erich F. Jetter).
In the course of the relaunch of the Zollern-Alb-Kurier in 2018, the publishing house positioned itself even more as a media company and integrated the Internet agency Splashpixel . The Splashpixel branch takes on online marketing, web design and the production of video and image content.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zollern-Alb-Kurier: Mediadaten 2016 ( memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF file, accessed January 29, 2016
- ^ Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers: Lehari: New opportunities for cooperation urgently needed , report on the inauguration of the printing center on March 26, 2004, accessed on April 6, 2015
- ^ Zollern-Alb-Kurier: Advertising page for Paywall , accessed on April 6, 2015
- ↑ Steidle New Media: Paywall for Zollern-Alb-Kurier , accessed on March 6, 2015
- ↑ Splash pixels
