Südwest Presse
The Südwestpresse ( proper name SOUTHWEST PRESS ) is a German newspaper Neue Presse society GmbH based in Ulm.
With around 293,000 copies, titles and partner investments reaching around 860,000 readers per day and appears in more than one third of the State of Baden- Wuerttemberg.
History
The Südwestpresse is the successor to the 1859 gegründeteten Ulmer daily paper, which was acquired in 1877 by Ebner Verlag. During the period of National Socialism, the newspaper was merged on May 2, 1934, the Ulm storm. After the Second World War in 1945 Kurt Fried, John White and Paul Thielemann received by the American occupation authorities the license for the publication of the Swabian Danube newspaper.
1955, following the death of John White, Max and Carl Ebner came with a 50 percent stake in the newspaper. In 1962, the daily newspaper Ulmer merged messages that appeared since 1949, with the Swabian Danube newspaper. 1968, the Swabian Danube newspaper was renamed the press in the afternoon. She began a partnership with nine local newspapers from the western Württemberg (Tübingen, Balingen, Schwenningen, Metzingen / Bad Urach, Reutlingen ) and other local newspapers, whose circulation area in East Württemberg ( inter alia, in Aalen, Schwäbisch Hall, Bad Mergentheim, Crailsheim ) and was in the Stuttgart area. 1974 closed the Südwestpresse together with the New Württembergischen newspaper Göppingen. Their publishing became a partner with a share of 50 percent in the Ulmer newspaper publisher.
Support and technical data
The daily paid circulation of all expenditure amounts to 293 144 copies (without Bietigheimer newspaper and Eberbacher newspaper ), of which 60 341 copies for the actual Südwestpresse ( Ulm, Neu -Ulm, Alb- Donau-Kreis ). The Südwestpresse and most of the member newspapers appear in the " Rheinische format ", some affiliated newspapers in the smaller "Berliner " format. Printing is done at seven locations.
The newspaper network and distribution area
For composite Südwestpresse include 18 newspapers spread over a geographical area of Bad Mergentheim in the north to Villingen -Schwenningen in the southwest.