Bremer Newspaper
The Bremer Tageszeitung AG (BTAG) (Bremer newspaper AG) is a publishing house that publishes various regional newspapers in the city of Bremen and the close by region in Lower Saxony.
The daily newspaper Weser-Kurier (WK) is the main product. The WK forms the title pages of the local newspapers Bremer Nachrichten and Verdener Nachrichten as well as the Sunday newspaper Kurier am Sonntag, which appear in Bremen and in the lower Saxon environs. In addition, there are some regional or local side dishes. The sold circulation amounts to 126.485 copies. Thas a minus of 37.3 per cent since 1998.
The publishing house is located in Bremen and had till 2019 its own printing house in the Woltmershausen district.[1] BTAG was founded in 1945 under commercial law as a public limited company and is owned half by the Bremen family Hackmack and Hamburg photographer Christian Güssow. Since at least 1999 the two owners of the publishing house were in conflict with each other, blocking important decisions.[2]
History
Bremer Nachrichten (Bremen News), today is identical with Weser-Kurier was first time published on Januar 7th, 1743, entitled as Bremer Wöchentlichen Nachrichten (Bremen weekly news). Bremer Nachrichten is with four other papers one of the oldest newspapers still published in Germany. Also it is the seventh oldest daily newspaper in the world.
The social-democratic journalist and publisher Hans Hackmack received in 1945 from the military government of the American zone the license to publish a newspaper. The newspaper received the name Weser-Kurier. It was one of the first licensed newspapers in occupied Germany after the Second World War and appeared on four sides for the first time on 19 September 1945. At this time Weser-Kurier cost 20 pfennigs and was available on Wednesdays and Saturdays with a circulation of 150,000 copies. The Bremer Nachrichten was allowed to appear only in 1949; they could not make up for the advantage of the Weser-Kurier. The editorial content was controlled by the US military government in 1945/46, but soon the editorial staff worked independently. In 1946 the Weser-Kurier GmbH was founded. The Weser courier appeared as a nonpartisan newspaper, with a first social-liberal expression.
Bremer Nachrichten were re-established after WWII in 1949 and recognized part by part to Weser-Kurier till the 1970this.
In 1949, the newspaper was printed externally by Schünemann-Verlag of Bremer Nachrichten. Up from September 1949 the newspaper was published every working day.