Frankfurter Zeitung

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Frankfurter Zeitung, 1906

The Frankfurter Zeitung (German:

Propagandaministerium under Joseph Goebbels
.

History

In 1856,[1] German writer and politician Leopold Sonnemann purchased a struggling market publication in Germany; the Frankfurter Geschäftsbericht (also known as Frankfurter Handelszeitung). Sonnemann changed its name to Neue Frankfurter Zeitung (later simply Frankfurter Zeitung) and assumed the duties of publisher, editor, and contributing writer.[2] The new title incorporated political news and commentary, and by the time of the foundation of the German Empire in 1871, the Frankfurter Zeitung had become an important mouthpiece of the liberal bourgeois extra-parliamentary opposition. It advocated peace in Europe before 1914 and during World War I.

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During the period of the Weimar Republic, the paper was treated with hostility and derision by nationalist circles, due to its pronounced support of the Weimar Republic in 1919. At this time, it no longer stood in opposition to the government, and supported Gustav Stresemann's policy of reconciliation during his time as Foreign Minister from 1923 to 1929. The Frankfurter Zeitung was one of the few democratic papers of the time. It was known in particular for its Feuilleton section, edited by Benno Reifenberg,[3] in which works of most of the great minds of the Weimar Republic were published.

Nazi era

After the 1933

Jewish contributors had to leave the Frankfurter Zeitung, including Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The paper was finally sold in June 1934 to the chemical corporation IG Farben. The company's directors, particularly Carl Bosch, were well-disposed toward the paper because of its place in traditional German life, and believed it could be useful in promoting favorable publicity for the company.[4]

During the Nazi's early time in power, the paper was initially protected by

Nazi Ministry of Propaganda and was quickly losing its journalistic reputation abroad. The company's directors realized it no longer needed to influence domestic public opinion, "since there was effectively no public opinion left in Germany".[5]

The paper was quietly sold and subsumed by a subsidiary of the Nazi publishing organ,

Second World War, it was closed down entirely in August 1943.[7]

Postwar era

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung does not consider itself a successor organisation to the original Zeitung, even though many former journalists of the earlier paper helped launch it in 1949.

Notable contributors

Sources

  • Günther Gillessen: Auf verlorenem Posten. Die Frankfurter Zeitung im Dritten Reich. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1986, 1987.
    ISBN 3-88680-223-X

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-78076-827-4
    . Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  2. OCLC 1536166
    . Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  3. ^ Anthony Fothergill Reading Conrad: Melancholy in the shadow of the swastika[permanent dead link] Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland) 2007
  4. ^
    ISBN 9781440649301
    . Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  5. ^ a b Evans, p. 143.
  6. ISBN 978-0807133620
    . Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  7. ^ E. Noelle (27 June 2002), "Die letzte Kerze. Das Verbot der Frankfurter Zeitung im August 1943", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German)

External links

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