Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine

The Hessian / Low Saxon General (HNA ) is a published from Monday to Saturday daily newspaper for the northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony. The publisher Dierichs GmbH & Co KG is the HNA out. Your daily circulation of 188 997 copies. The HNA was called to 1975 Hessian General, and in 1959 was created by the merger of the Hessian messages and the Kassel newspaper.

History

Hessian News

On September 26, 1945 First published in the Hessian messages in Kassel. The editors Wolfgang Bartels (SPD ), Fritz Schmidt (KPD ), August Heinrich Berning, Gustav Romans (LDP - nah) and Dr. Wolfgang Poeschl (CDU - nah) were obtained from the American military government license, the third newspaper in Hesse ( surrendered by the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Marburg press). For paper deficiency, the newspaper was initially released only on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and cost in the month 1.85 Reichsmarks. Since November 7, 1945 edition of Kassel city and a country's issue was published. This division was abandoned shortly after in favor of local issues. In the district Hünfeld published since January 23, 1946, the Werrabote and in Hersfeld since March 23, 1946, the Hersfelder Rundschau. Accordingly, the paper allocation increased and the circulation rose in early February 1946, 90,000 copies. The newspaper was published from April 1946, three days a week.

In the summer of 1946 put the newspaper on local issues continue its expansion. On 7 June 1946 from the Hersfelder Observations of the Fuldabote which covered the circles Hersfeld Rotenburg and Melsungen. The Schwalm Echo was the new local edition of the counties goats grove and Fritzlar -Homberg and the North Hessian mirror for the circles Hofgeismar and Wolf Hagen.

Since August 1, 1948, the newspaper published four days a week, since 1 September 1948 with a circulation of 130,000 copies a day. The monthly costs amounted to 2,95 DM side of the Kassel edition and the edition zone appeared six local editions: The Werrabote, the " Fuldabote, the Ederbote, the North Hessian mirror, the Schwalm echo and the echo home.

Kassel newspaper

On 29 November 1946, the second Kassler License newspaper, the Kassel newspaper appeared, for the first time and made the Hessian messages competition. She next appeared on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

More history

The Hessian / Low Saxon General ( HNA) was renamed on January 2, 1974. Reason was an increasing number of readers from the southern Lower Saxony room. When selling SPD own Hanoverian Press the Madsack Group took over the Hessian General whose südhannoversche expenditures: In addition to the Göttingen general ( originally Göttingen Press ), which was later, came the Northeimer Latest news ( with the Sollinger general), the Duderstadt people's Daily and the Mündener news publishing house Dierichs. To broaden the editorial base, HNA gave the jacket part of the economically independent Harzkurier the expansive printing house maid in Herzberg. After the turn of the HNA tried to extend to Thuringia and founded the Central German General with local editions in the calibration field, but which were later sold to the Thuringian newspaper. As a result, many transactions there is the head title Eichsfelder Tageblatt in identical typography twice: as the top sheet of the Göttingen Tageblatt for Altkreis Duderstadt and as head of the Thuringian State Journal newspaper for the neighboring county Eichsfeld ( Holy City ). In the wake of the takeover of the Braunschweiger Zeitung and Kurier resin by the WAZ Media Group, which is now based in Osterode sheet took over the mantle of the Braunschweiger Zeitung.

Closely related was the HNA. Having in 1976 by ​​the then editor and publisher Paul Dierichs ( 1901-1996 ) founded and named after him, Paul Dierichs Foundation, which promoted social harmony in the circulation area of the newspaper After the generation change in the publishing line sat Rainer Dierichs (1939-2007) continued in his father's foundation work until the foundation was then released following the sale of the publishing house in 2003. From the Foundation's more than 300 initiatives of citizens were honored for their exemplary commitment to the Paul- Dierichs price a whole, which was accompanied by the HNA each with extensive coverage.

Sale and current development

In 2002, the HNA was sold to the Munich-based Ippen Group (including the editor of the Münchner Merkur ). Since then, the appearance of the newspaper has changed dramatically. Thus, the local reporting is much more space given as before. In particular, in the department policy, the HNA served less at agencies, but is increasingly relying on their background article. In the summer of 2009, the HNA turned around and the local section of their leaf structure forward. The first two books fills the premises, followed by politics / economy, sports and TV / culture.

For quite a stir in the media industry attended the information from April 2009 for six weeks on a trial basis and according to deputy chief editor Jan Schlüter " with profit open-ended " on the use of text and pictures of the German Press Agency ( dpa ) refrain.

Since 2 January 2012, the HNA operates its own Internet radio station.

The HNA is Germany's most successful newspaper on YouTube with 11,721,637 calls.

Support development

The HNA has well as most German newspapers lost in recent years to support. Paid circulation has declined by 19.6 percent since 1998. The proportion of subscriptions on paid circulation is around 95 percent.

Development of sold copies

Dissemination

The HNA also serves the surrounding aera Kassel, more precisely the circles Waldeck- Frankenberg, Schwalm- Eder, Werra- Meißner and Hersfeld -Rotenburg. In southern Lower Saxony maintains the HNA editors in Göttingen, Hann. Munden, Northeim and Solling ( Uslar ). There are 16 different local editions of the HNA, ranging from Northeim in the north to Schwalm city in the south.

Criticism

In North Hesse this newspaper has a virtual monopoly because other regional newspapers are missing. Only in Waldeck- Frankenberg Waldeckische country newspaper / Frankenberger newspaper is published. While the Waldeckische country newspaper is a market leader in the northern part of the county, the HNA Frankenberger General has the higher circulation in the southern part of the county.

In April 2006, the magazine produced by the HNA Alszus, which is broadcast on the Open Channel Kassel was criticized, since you first saw an unauthorized infomercial for the HNA in him. After removal of the HNA logos from the show as well as the insurance, the HNA - editors would this make in their spare time, allowed the Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting the further broadcast.

In the criticism of the HNA was also in October 2007, when it became known that the publisher of the newspaper wanted to separate from the tariff binding of the Employers' Association of the Hessian newspaper publisher on January 1, 2008.