Kreuzzeitung

The Cross newspaper was actually called New Prussian newspaper, but was commonly called by the Iron Cross in the title Kreuzzeitung ( also introduced the subtitles Kreuz-Zeitung ) and was published from 1848 until 1939.

Formation

The Cross newspaper was founded in 1848 by Hermann Wagener as a body of Christian conservatives to the brothers Leopold and Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach and Hans Hugo von Kleist Retzow and Ernst Karl Wilhelm Adolf Freiherr Senfft of Pilsach.

See also: Conservative Party ( Prussia)

Orientation

The Cross newspaper was considered very conservative, antidemocratic and as a supporter of the Prussian-German monarchy. She was one next to the Reichsboten and Staatsburgerzeitung to strictly reactionary anti -Semitic publications. She was the " Journal of the Party of the feudal Junker and orthodox evangelical pastors ".

Editors

Employee

Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach wrote here about a decade monthly to quarterly his political " Rundschau ". Next to him, in particular delivered Friedrich Julius Stahl acclaimed posts. Others included Philip of Nathusius since 1848 and his son Philip of Nathusius - LUDOM (since 1872).

The most famous employee was without doubt Theodor Fontane ( 1856-1870 ), who from 1860 to 1870 the " English Article " edited. ( Ezekiel George oversaw the " French article". ) Another significant staff was Hermann Goedsche, he also a writer of many - albeit pretty trashy novels incorrect - and substantially responsible for the dissemination of anti-Semitic conspiracy legend.

Fontane characterized in the description of his job interview with the chief editor of the Kreuz Zeitung milieu: "In the sofa cushions the Iron Cross was embroidered while out of the black picture frame adorned with the crown of thorns Christ to me looked down " (in: from twenty to thirty in the 7th chapter of the section on the tunnel over the Spree). " Gentlemen, we do not forget it, even the most conservative sheet is still more leaf than conservative. ": But he defended the editorial also by emphasizing that he had there found no Byzantinism and bigotry, and cites the word Julius steel

Lack of funds meant that the editors of the newspaper occasionally cross products of foreign newspapers and rewrote it posts supposedly designed operating abroad correspondents. To this end, forged local and dates as well as correspondent characters, which Fontane in his autobiographical document describes From twenty to thirty.

The Kreuzzeitung had an advisory committee that in 1895 the chief editor Hammerstein suspended. The procedure justified by Jordan Kröcher in the Prussian House of Representatives and before his group, the German conservatives.

• Adolf Stein

Setting the newspaper

On August 29, 1937, the Nazis told the readers of the newspaper succinctly: "With the present day, we have assumed, Kreuzzeitung. '" The last edition was published in 1939, after the newspaper was discontinued.