Der Morgen

The morning was a daily newspaper in the GDR and the central organ of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP, 1951 in LDPD renamed). The paper appeared since August 3, 1945 six times a week, from 7 July 1950 in the morning printing and publishing mbH, which belonged to the Liberal Democratic Party and the Liberal Democratic Party - National Association of Saxony- Anhalt.

First editor of the newspaper was Reich Minister D. Wilhelm Külz. The preamble of the first edition set the goal of becoming the "mouthpiece of the liberal- democratic bourgeoisie ".

From 1955 books were laid with party material, from which the 1958 split book publisher The morning, Berlin developed.

At the turn time in 1989 she was the first daily newspaper in the GDR, which officially renounced the claim to leadership of the SED and contributions and letters to the editor admitted that critically dealt with the political system of the GDR. In February 1990, she worked as the first DDR - sheet with the Stalinist crimes in Germany.

In July 1990, the newspaper was acquired by Axel Springer Verlag. In the editors worked tirelessly to journalists from East and West, who had come from the mirror or the newspaper, together. Under its new editor in chief Dieter Degler be profiled Morning with revelations about the PDS Finance and Stasi intricacies of politicians. The editors Jan von flakes, Erwin Jurtschitsch and Michael Klonovsky received the Guardian Award of the daily press of the foundation " freedom of the press " for courageous reports on " detection and treatment of human rights violations by the East German judiciary ". In the fall of 1990 merged the morning with the newspaper of the GDR block party NDPD, the Berlin general.

Although the morning of the publisher initially, a guarantee was given and he was praised for his journalistic style from critics. However, already a year later, on June 11, 1991, the Springer group discontinued the publication of the paper. The decision was due to the Springer manager Erhard van Straaten, who was Managing Director responsible for the newspaper sector. Van Straaten disliked the liberal orientation of the editors. In addition, developed " The Morning " for intragroup competition for the conservative flagship the world. Therefore decreed van Straaten that the newspaper is not delivered via the newly established distribution network of the Group in East Germany, but still has the old GDR Mail newspaper sales ( GMA) option has been shipped. Because the subscribers usually received in this way her newspaper one day late, the rest broke as a result of numerous cancellations soon. The circulation loss was van Straaten then as an argument to enforce the closure of the newspaper.

With the acquisition of the former SED district newspapers by West German publishers began a never experienced in Germany concentration process. Were particularly affected them the papers of the CDU, NDPD and LDPD. The Newspaper of East-CDU New Time, which had a circulation of 125,000 copies in 1991, went to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She disappeared from the market in 1994 as well as " The Morning ". The editorial acquired with their work, although an excellent reputation over the new federal states also; for economic survival but even this was not enough.