Pester Lloyd

The Pester Lloyd was a German -language daily newspaper from Budapest, Hungary. The newspaper was published on December 31, 1853, sample sheet, January 1, 1854 (First Edition: Budapest) until April 14, 1945 ( Last Edition: Sopron / Ödenburg ) twice a day as Morning and Evening Journal.

In addition, a German -language weekly newspaper published 9 September 1994 to 14 May 2009 first under the name The New Pester Lloyd, from 1 January 1999, also under the name Pester Lloyd parallel to the weekly online edition. On March 15, 2009, print edition of the newspaper was discontinued. It appears since then as an online newspaper. In its orientation it is critical of the incumbent since 2010 Fidesz government of Viktor Orbán.

History to 1945

By 1945, the Pester Lloyd was considered the leading and largest German -language daily newspaper, with a liberal democratic tendency in Hungary. The Pester Lloyd appeared from 1854 to 1945 as a daily newspaper twice a day, morning and evening as a sheet.

The newspaper was edited by the Pest -Lloyd company, which was conducted in 1937 by its President, Dr. Aurel Egry and Vice-President Franz Szekely. Editorial office in Budapest V. was the Mária Valéria - Str. 12 The former edition was 27,000. The newspaper was designed especially for the relevant trade and industrial circles, ie mainly for wholesale, big business and the big banks.

Report on the Nuremberg Race Laws

On September 16, 1935, newspaper reported on the new Nuremberg race laws and has said that this was a further worsening of the Jews in the Third Reich legislation. And to clarify what these laws would mean for the German citizens of the Jewish faith, was run:

The article went on to say that therefore the German Jews were degraded to helots, would introduce a new citizenship law outside the German Reich citizenship and they would be excluded from the fellowship of the German Reich citizens ..

1938/39, were also in Hungary, which is an anti-Jewish numerus clausus had been since 1920 at universities, decided anti-Semitic laws, the Jewish editors also the Pester Lloyd in 1944 dismissed and ghettoized.

Employees in 1937

The Directorate-General of the newspaper was run by Felix Dick. The editor was Joseph Veszi, his deputy György Kecskeméti. The editorial policy of the department headed Georg Káldor. For the Trade division Josef Vago was responsible, in the business editor Georg Kemény and M. Mitnitzky wrote the article. For the foreign policy Desider Kiss was. The editorial Municipal led Heinrich Schwet the editorial art Edmund Gergö. The article for the theater and literature wrote K. Sebestyen. For the sports department Thomas Edmund Konrad was responsible.

Foreign correspondents were Hans Meisel in Athens, Ernst Lemmer in Berlin, Ágnes Szekula in Geneva, Ernst Neumann and George Popoff in London, Frédéric choice in Madrid, Nicholas Bandy in Moscow and Gustav W. Eberlein in Rome. Lemmer wrote articles for the purposes of German National Socialism, which also corresponded to the internal and external political attitude of most Hungarian cabinets of the interwar period.

For the Pester Lloyd wrote before 1938, inter alia, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Alfred Polgar, Ferenc Molnár, Dezso Kosztolányi, Egon Erwin Kisch, Bertha von Suttner, Franz Werfel and Felix Salten.

Start-up 1994

It was 1994 ( Memorandum from 1 July 1993, Ung Ministry of Culture, Nytsz. B/PHF/1993 ) first as The New Pester Lloyd of Gotthard B. Schicker ( founder and sole license holder ) and with the participation, among others of Anikó Halmai, András Heltai Hopp (Deputy Chief Editor ), Rainer Ackermann ( deputy editor ) and Jan Mainka revived as a weekly newspaper. Mainka retired in 1999 and founded the Budapest Times.

Since 1999, the newspaper appeared again under its original title "Pester Lloyd" simultaneously with the supplement Budapest Rundschau. As of 2004, then the appear of the Vienna Lloyd at intervals of four to six weeks, alternating with the Budapest Rundschau. The editors of the Vienna Lloyds was in Vienna under the direction of Marco Schicker. Content reflected the sides of the relations between the two capitals, Vienna and Budapest on economic, political and cultural areas with a reference back to the common from the time of the Danube Monarchy of Austria - Hungary. In 2005 and 2006, the regional offices were opened in Győr and Pécs.

The newspaper was published on Wednesdays with a circulation of around 15,000 pieces, place of publication was Budapest. On May 15, 2009, print edition of the newspaper was discontinued. The Pester Lloyd appears since then as German -language online daily newspaper for Hungary and Central Europe. My editor in chief Marco Schicker. Since 1994, wrote, inter alia, György Konrad, István Eörsi, László F. Földényi, Péter Esterházy, and numerous authors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the Pester Lloyd.

The Pester Lloyd -Verlag also published books in German and Hungarian.