Saarbrücker Zeitung

The Saarbrücken newspaper is the only daily newspaper of the Saarland. January 1, 2013, it owned a majority of Rheinische Post Media Group. With eleven local offices, the Journal focuses on regional coverage. She practices at the Saarland newspaper market de facto from a monopoly. In 2001, the newspaper received the coveted Local Journalism Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

History

After the Nassau princely government, led by Wilhelm Heinrich of Nassau- Saarbrücken, had issued an order to the Hofbuchdrucker Gottfried Hofer on 24 January 1761 to print a General weekly paper, the newspaper appeared in 1761 in the first issue under the inscription Nassau Saarbrückisches weekly paper, as with Wagner, in Handbook of German daily press of 1937 and in other sources was specified. In the sheet once Notices of the government, the market prices and similar information was printed in the week. Political messages were missing in the sheet.

Obviously, the name General weekly paper put in the title of the sheet through later. A serious crisis of the newspaper meant the effects of the French Revolution of 1793, which also affected Saarbrücken. The appearance of the sheet was set. In 1794 the company was renamed the sheet in Saarbrücken weekly occasion of the resumption of sales. The presence of the French meant that all displays and records were printed in French. These measures had ordered the French prefect. The sheet had thereby suffered losses and has not been issued more regularly.

In 1808, the publication called Saarbrücken Official Intelligence Journal, only to have the title Saarbrücken Intelligence Journal in 1816 after the annexation to Prussia. After the political order was changed, the newspaper was now called the Official Journal of Saarbrücken. As of May 22, 1818, the front page carried the Prussian eagle and the inscription intelligence Journal of Saarbrücken, which is a perfect conversion of the sheet was completed. As of September 23, 1836 Journal of Intelligence Journal of the circle Saarbrücken was called, the support now appeared twice a week. In the years 1837 to 1848 the newspaper was distributed three times a week.

From 1838 it was renamed in Saarbrücken Gazette. The Revolution of 1848 brought a significant politicization of citizenship, so that the newspaper was printed daily from 1 July to 22 September 1848. Now also political declarations such as a petition to the king were printed. As of September 22, 1848, the newspaper had the title Saar newspaper, then in 1861 to assume the title of Saarbrücken newspaper. Hence, the period in which this paper was developed in the Saar region into the most important began.

After the First World War, the Saarbrücken newspaper ran in 1920 in big trouble because the French occupation forces wanted to lead the newspaper in French property. Max Winkler introduced the financial and entrepreneurial activities so that the newspaper remained in German hands. In 1928, the newspaper had a circulation of 70 000 copies.

After the return of the Saar region, the sheet was brought into line with the Nazi press.

After the Second World War, the newspaper was published from August 27, 1945 as New Saarbrücken newspaper, then in 1861 to take the traditional name of Saarbrücken newspaper again from September 5, 1946.

With the Treaty of Luxembourg, Saarland Saarbrücken was the owner of the newspaper. By order of the Saarland parliament in November 5, 1969 finally was privatized, initially 49 % went to the publisher Georg von Holtzbrinck. The Society for civic education Saar mbH ( GSB) has since held a share of 26 %.

In 2005, Saarbrücken newspaper tried " saar 20Cent " with the daily newspaper to gain a foothold in the low-price segment. However, the publication could never reach the " break-even ". The experiment was terminated on February 28, 2009, when the last edition was delivered.

On 30 May 2012, announced that the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck ( GvH ) wanted to sell its shares in two tranches at the GSB. After the Federal Cartel Office had agreed to the GSB would increase to August 1, 2012 its stake to 46.9 %. By the end of 2012, the GSB also took over the remaining shares of Holtzbrinck and sold them on January 1, 2013, the Rheinische Post Media Group. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Currently, the shares are distributed as follows: Rheinische Post Media Group 52.33 %, GSB 26 %, the holding company of the staff of the newspaper Saarbrücken 15%, and 6.67 % at the Saarbrücken newspaper itself

Support development

The Saarbrücken newspaper with a circulation of 138 890 copies, one of four daily newspapers in the Saarland regional reporting. The tide has well as most German newspapers lost in recent years to support. Paid circulation has declined by 25.1 percent since 1998. The proportion of subscriptions on paid circulation is 91.4 percent.

Development of sold copies

The SZ is read by around 420,000 people (Media Analysis, 2013, with Pfälzischer Mercury) and 480,000 unique users (AGOF III/2013 ) used on the Internet.

Editorial offices and printing

The SZ is produced in the publisher's own print shop. The SZ has eleven local offices in the Saarland. The main house is located in Saarbrücken city center. The sheet has a correspondent office in Berlin and has an international network of correspondents. The Saarbrücken newspaper makes, with 2700 employees and generated sales of 330 million euros, the return on sales is to find in the double digits.

Former Editors

Publishing house

Website

The Saarbrücken newspaper in 1993 was present as one of the first German newspaper on the internet, at the time the offer SZ- Newsline. The SZ- offer was 2002 in the portal SOL.DE on. Since September 2007, the newspaper Saarbrücken is again represented with its own offer on the Internet. The online presence of the SZ is among other geocoded regional news, video news, ePaper and a community of readers. The media company has since depended on a two -pillar strategy: saarbruecker - zeitung.de to appeal to the slightly older, news -oriented target group SOL.DE the young Internet users, who are interested in entertainment content, schedules, and communities. In the course of portal expansion and development of new target groups, the publisher has started the finerio.de Gastronomy portal in September 2012.

Literature - References

• Eugen Wagner: The Press of the Saar and their struggle against the French annexation efforts in the years 1918-1925, Dissertation Heidelberg 1933
• Institute of journalism at the University of Berlin, Handbook of German daily press, Berlin 1937
• Institute of Journalism of the Freie Universität Berlin: The German Press 1961 - newspapers and magazines, Berlin 1961
• Emil Ermatinger, Eugen Thurnher, Paul Stapf: German Culture in the Age of Enlightenment, Frankfurt / Main 1969
• Bernarding, Bernhard: When the prince, the newspaper created. 250 years Saarbrücken newspaper - a detailed history. In: Saarbrücken newspaper (main part ) v. January 3, 2011, p A2