Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz)

Allgemeine Zeitung
Logo of Allgemeine Zeitung
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main
Publisher Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main
Editor-in-chief Friedrich Roeingh
Founded 1850 (1850)
Language German
Headquarters Mainz
Circulation 52.500
Website www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/index.htm

Allgemeine Zeitung is a German regional daily newspaper, published in Mainz, the capital of Rhineland-Palatinate. Founded in 1850, it is now part of the Rhein Main Presse, published by Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main.

History

The paper was founded in 1850 as the Täglicher Straßenanzeiger (daily street advertisement). From 1854 a redaction developed political, business, cultural and local news. The name was changed to Mainzer Anzeiger. After World War I, the paper developed to a regionally read daily. The publication house was destroyed in the Air raid on 27 February 1945. In the fall of 1945, a paper was founded named Neuer Mainzer Anzeiger, changed once more in May 1947 to Allgemeine Zeitung.[1][2]

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References

  1. ↑ Frank Schmidt-Wyk: Zeitungmachen "unter Geiern" (in German), in: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, 23 July 2010, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Frank Schmidt-Wyk: Journalisten unter Dampf (in German), in: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, 27 July 2010, p. 11.
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