Freies Wort

Free Word is a regional daily newspaper in the south of Thuringia, with a circulation of 73 587 copies. It appears in the independent city of Suhl, in the districts Hildburghausen and Sonneberg and in parts of the counties Schmalkalden- Meiningen, Ilm-Kreis district and Wartburg. Publisher is the Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG located in Suhl.

Founded Free Word as an organ of the SED district leadership of the GDR district Suhl. The newspaper was created on August 15, 1952 with the establishment of the districts in East Germany than The Free Word and renamed on March 9, 1956 in Free Word. Free Word was with a circulation of 157,400 copies as the smallest SED district newspaper with then eight local teams.

When privatization after the reunification, the free word was in 1991 by the Süddeutsche Verlag in Munich ( 70 percent) and the SPD media holding German printing and publishing mbh ( DDVG ) over (30 percent) in Hamburg.

Editor in chief Walter Hörmann, deputy Markus Ermert.

Local offices

There are eight local offices with the following individual requirements:

The editors of the FW Meininger Tageblatt acts as a de facto local editorial Meiningen (see collaborations ).

Cooperations

Together with the titles Neue Presse ( Coburg ), South Thuringia Newspaper ( Bad Salzungen ) and Frankenpost ( courtyard), belong to the same owners, forms Free Word the " regional newspaper group Hof / Coburg / Suhl " the Süddeutsche Verlag, which Südwestdeutsche Media Holding GmbH ( SWMH ) belongs in Stuttgart. For the national coat Free word editorial cooperates with the Stuttgarter Nachrichten.

Free Word also cooperates with the Meininger media mbH (MMG ), which the newspaper publishes FW Meininger Tageblatt. At the Meininger media mbH are in turn 50 per cent the Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG and the UPU involved company for advertising, press and logisticians in Meiningen. FW Meininger Tageblatt newspaper and Südthüringer take over the entire mantle part of Free Word.