The German newspaper was from 1 July 1847 to at the end of of September 1850 existing newspaper with civil liberals adjustment. The adjustment by program of the sheet on completely Germany was very unusual at the time at that time and explained themselves from the political objective of the publishers and publishers.

Publishing house and appearance

The establishment of the German newspaper was the result of a meeting of oppositionals of delegates of Baden on 29 November 1846 in Durlach. Friedrich Daniel Bassermann and Karl Mathy, which operated the Bassermann publishing house together, worried afterwards about the structure of a Korrespendennetzes from the entire German federation. With contract of 10. March 1847 Carl Mittermaier, George Gottfried Gervinus, Ludwig and Mathy were ordered to publishers. Most coining/shaping publisher of the newspaper was here the Heidelberger historian Gervinus, after its withdrawal from the publisher shank came to the prominent role.

After calculations Bassermanns should be profitable the newspaper starting from an edition of 3.000 pieces, which lay the far over usual number of copies of newspapers in bathing, which was at this time maximally about 1.000 pieces. The first edition appeared in an edition of 1.500 copies, at the end of of 1847 the newspaper of 3,000 copies had already reached, 1848 reached the edition their high point with approx. 4,000 pieces.

The German newspaper appeared at the beginning in Heidelberg in the Bassermann publishing house. Since Bassermann wanted to concentrate as a chairman of the constitution committee Frankfurt national assembly 1848 strengthened on the policy, the newspaper was sold on 1 August 1848 for 12,000 guldens at the Leipziger Karl Reimer, owner of the Frankfurt Weidmann bookshop. Starting from 1 October 1848 Frankfurt/Main was feature place of the newspaper.

After striking down the revolutions the liberalism moderate by 1848/49 and discrediting in the context of the realm condition campaign the economically always loss-basic newspaper 1850 stopped its appearance.

Meaning and political position

The German newspaper understood itself in the apron of the March revolution as guidance organ of the enlightened civil liberalism. The choice of the name should anticipate and operate by program the agreement of Germany, the newspaper understood itself quasi as state-basic organ of the geeinten liberal of Germany not existing yet. Altogether 24 delegates of the Frankfurt national assembly wrote for the German newspaper.

Contents, political adjustment and style of the newspaper were strongly coined/shaped by well-known and opinion-prominent liberals personalities. The coworkers came mainly from the surrounding field of the South German moderate liberals, among them many university teachers and politicians as, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Heinrich of Gagern, Theodor deer, Friedrich Theodor Vi and Gustav Over correspondents and an honour advice liberals personalities from completely Germany were bound for Hans Adolph earthling of Auerswald, William Beseler, to the newspaper, for example George Beseler, David Hans man, Karl William Wippermann and Maximilian count von Schwerin Putzar.

The German newspaper formulated this as follows in its first edition:

[...] the thought on this sheet was lively from louder parliamentary men; among unsern next-pray-sanctified sponsors and friends are five sixth welfare are state people and Deputirte to be counted, and under the remaining sixth welfare the names are to be read, those generally speaking country neither as doctrinaire ones, nor as undecided people admits are. That however among the publishers coincidentally half, third half professors are, this would know not possibly a newspaper that suspicious character prints, whose program in the sharpest demarcation a political tendency sheet.

Therefore the German newspaper was from the beginning rather an organ of the intellectual, politically formed middle class and turned therefore against radical and revolutionary positions, how they became to represent increasingly from Gustav Struve, Friedrich Hecker and Joseph Fickler. On the other hand it supported the positions of the Heppenheimer conference, the German customs union, the condition work of the Frankfurt national assembly and was close in particular to the Casino parliamentary group of the Paulskirche. The newspaper had Germany far a large influence on elevated education layers, however starting from 1849 in its meaning by the radicalization of the March revolution in the course of the realm condition campaign and the initiating defeat of the moderate forces in their influence was cut, since it could not unfold mass effect with this Zeiungskonzept.

The left one - had changed itself by the radicalization of its positions of the allied one of the liberals to their opponent - set against it on completely different newspaper concept, in particular, after in bathing Minister of the Interior Bekk had loosened the press laws on 27 February 1848. Here usually individual journalists wrote handbill-like newspapers to the extent from only few sides, which appeared in an edition of maximally 1,000 pieces two until three times the week. So for example the Konstanzer of sea-sheets had a maximum edition of 700 pieces. In view of the target group, which was very high often read-weakly, and their opposite prints, the style was argumentatively strong contrary to the German newspaper simplifying and in the consequences aggressively and against the political Gegener directly proceeding. Often here the government became, all wealthy ones ("money bags ") as well as an official and aristocracy overall revile and to their physical destruction called. Over people associations these sheets, under it the Heidelberger Republic of, were distributed the Mannheimer evening paper and the people leader, into the most remote angles and achieved so a large number at farmers, craftsmen and workers.

The liberals in the German newspaper, by calling the left one in their sheet to which anarchy preaches, titulierten in these publications as people traitors, resisted likewise reached however naturally also thereby no public. The fate of the German newspaper stands thus also exemplary for the different public effect of the moderate liberals and the radical democrats during the high phase of the March revolution.

Literature

• Lothar Gall: Middle class in Germany, Munich 1989: Settler, ISBN 3886802590
• Wolfgang von Hippel: Revolution in the German southwest. The Grand Duchy of bathing 1848/49, (= writings to political regional studies of Baden-Wuerttemberg Bd. 26), publishing house Kohl hammer: Stuttgart 1998 (to refer also free of charge over the national center for political education Baden-Wuerttemberg), ISBN 3170140396
• Ulrike of deer living: Liberalism and nation. The German newspaper 1847-1850 (= contributions for the history of the parliamentarism and the political parties, Bd. 115), Droste publishing house: Duesseldorf, 1998, ISBN 3770052153
• Roland Hoede: The Heppenheimer meeting from 10 October 1847, Frankfurt/Main: Publishing house W. Kramer, 1997, ISBN 378290471

Related links

• Article of the University of Heidelberg over Gervinus and the German newspaper
• Article by Udo Leuschner

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