Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning

Göteborgs Handels -och Sjöfartstidning (Swedish, Gothenburg trading and seafaring newspaper ), initially only Göteborgs Handelstidning, was one of the great liberal newspapers in Sweden. The newspaper was published 1832-1985.

History

Göteborgs Handels -och Sjöfartstidning was founded in 1832 by Magnus Prytz as a liberal opposition paper against the government of King Charles XIV John. Under the chief editor Sven Adolf Hedlund, the newspaper developed in the second half of the 19th century to one of the most respected newspapers in Sweden. Among other things, the writer Viktor Rydberg was an employee of the newspaper.

Another journalistic heyday were the years 1917-1945 under Torgny Segerstedt. In the thirties, Göteborgs Handels -och Sjöfartstidning the strongest critic of Nazism and the compliant neutrality policy of the Swedish government developed. The article in the newspaper were regularly quoted in the broadcasts of the BBC and the newspaper was disseminated in the resistance movements in Denmark and Norway. The newspaper was confiscated in the 1940s and was repeatedly subjected to severe repression by the government. Due to this situation, and by the simultaneous emergence of competing Göteborgs-Posten, the newspaper ran into financial difficulties, which eventually led to 1974 that they now appeared once a week. In 1985, she was finally stopped.

• Swedish History (19th century)
• Swedish History ( 20th century)
• Newspaper (show set )
• Newspaper ( Sweden)
• Culture ( Gothenburg )
• First publication in 1832
• Posted in 1985