List of German-language newspapers published in the United States

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Illinois Staats-Zeitung's 1871 building in Chicago, one of the largest German language newspapers.

In the period from the 1830s until the First World War, dozens of German-language newspapers in the United States were published. Although the first German immigrants had arrived by 1700, most German-language newspapers flourished during the era of mass immigration from Germany that began in the 1820s.[1]

Germans were the first non-English speakers to publish newspapers in the U.S., and by 1890, over 1,000 German-language newspapers were being published in the United States.[1] The first German language paper was , published by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia beginning in 1732; it failed after a year.[1] In 1739, Christopher Sauer established Der Hoch-Deutsche Pennsylvanische Geschicht-Schreiber, later known as .[2] It was one of the most influential pre-Revolutionary weekly newspapers in the colonies.[2] By 1802, Pennsylvanian Germans published newspapers not only in Philadelphia, but also in Lancaster, Reading, Easton, Harrisburg, York, and Norristown.[1] The oldest German Catholic newspaper, the Cincinnati Archdiocese's Der Wahrheitsfreund, began publishing in 1837.[3][4] By 1881, it was one of five German papers in the Cincinnati market.[5]

The newspapers were hit by two rounds of closures due to sudden drops in advertising revenue. As the U.S. entered World War I, many advertisers stopped placing advertisements in German newspapers. Later, with the onset of Prohibition in 1920, the remaining newspapers faded, as older generations died and newer generations chose not to embrace a German-American identity, with Americanization.[1] A few America newspapers in the German language remain extant today.

Current[]

California[]

  • Neue Presse USA, Hemet, 1986–present

Florida[]

  • Florida Sun, Orlando

Georgia[]

  • Das Fenster, Athens, 1904–present

Michigan[]

  • Nordamerikanische Wochenpost, Warren, 1854–present

New York[]

Pennsylvania[]

Defunct[]

The building of Der Deutsche Correspondent in Baltimore
The 1874 building of the St. Louis Westliche Post
The building of the St. Louis Anzeiger des Westens in 1887
The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung's 1873 building)
The 1868 building of the Philadelphia Demokrat

Arkansas[]

  • , Little Rock, 1874-1876[6]
  • Stuttgart Germania, Stuttgart, 1895

California[]

  • , San Francisco, 1852–1918[7]
  • Süd-California Post, Los Angeles, 1887–1914

Illinois[]

Iowa[]

  • , Burlington, 1861–1899
  • , Davenport, 1851–1918
  • , Dubuque, 1881–1971
  • , Le Mars, 1884–1918

Maryland[]

  • Baltimore Wecker, Baltimore, 1851–1877
  • Der Deutsche Correspondent, Baltimore, 1841–1918, merger into Baltimore Correspondent
  • Bayrisches Wochenblatt, Baltimore, 1880–1919, merged into Baltimore Correspondent
  • (Täglicher) Baltimore Correspondent, Baltimore, 1919–1976[9][10][11]

Massachusetts[]

Minnesota[]

  • Der Nordstern, St. Cloud, 1874–1931
  • , St. Paul, 1858-1877
  • , St. Paul, 1861-1877
  • , St. Paul, 1877-1881
  • , 1881-1921
  • , 1881-1941

Missouri[]

Nebraska[]

  • , Lincoln, 1880–1901[12]

New York[]

North Dakota[]

Ohio[]

Oregon[]

Main article: German language newspapers of Oregon

Pennsylvania[]


South Dakota[]

Tennessee[]

Virginia[]

  • , Richmond, 1854-?[19]

Washington DC[]

  • , Washington DC, 1859–1999, merger with Amerika Woche

West Virginia[]

  • , Wheeling, 1901-1916[20]
  • , Wheeling, 1916-191?[21]
  • , Wheeling, 1887-1901, formed by the merger of Deutsche zeitung (Wheeling, W. Va.: 1876) (non-extant), and Wheelinger volksblatt (non-extant).[22]
  • , Wheeling, 1880-1887[23]
  • , Wheeling, 1848-1863, continued by West Virginia staats zeitung (non-extant)[24]
  • , Wheeling, 1865-1887, absorbed Patriot (Wheeling, W. Va.) (non-extant) and was continued by Deutsche Zeitung von West Virginien (non-extant).[25]

Wisconsin[]


National newspapers[]

  • , 1972–present
  • Der Ruf, distributed to German POWs across the United States during World War II

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e Grohsgal, Leah Weinryb (2 July 2014). "Chronicling America's Historic German Newspapers and the Growth of the American Ethnic Press". neh.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ^ a b "A History of Pennsylvania Newspapers". libraries.psu.edu. The Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  3. ^ McCann, Mary Agnes (1920). "The Most Reverend John Baptist Purcell, D.D., Archbishop of Cincinnati (1800-1883)". The Catholic Historical Review. American Catholic Historical Association. 6 (2): 183. ISSN 0008-8080. JSTOR 25011687.
  4. ^ Clark, S. J. (1912). Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 2. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 12.
  5. ^ "A Word About the Enquirer". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Vol. 39, no. 293. October 20, 1881. p. 4. ProQuest 888489269.
  6. ^ "Arkansas Freie Presse (Little Rock, Ark.) 1874-1876". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  7. ^ "California Staats-Zeitung (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1852-1918". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  8. ^ Juengling (28 January 2017). "95 Jahre Eintracht". (in German). 95 (20): 1.
  9. ^ "Baltimore Correspondent". Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  10. ^ "Täglicher Baltimore Correspondent". Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  11. ^ "Baltimore Correspondent. [volume]". Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  12. ^ "Nebraska Staats-Anzeiger (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1880-1901 [Online Resource]". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  13. ^ "Buffalo Freie Presse (Buffalo [N.Y.]) 1860-1914". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  14. ^ "Der Katholische Deutschamerikaner = the Catholic German American (New York [N.Y.]) 1910-1910". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  15. ^ "Neue Volks-Zeitung (New York, N.Y.) 1932-1949". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  16. ^ "New-Yorker Tages-Nachrichten (New York [N.Y.]) 1870-1896". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  17. ^ "Oneida Demokrat (Utica, N.Y.) 1855-1871". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  18. ^ "Westliche Blätter (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  19. ^ entry for Richmonder Anzeiger at the Library of Congress
  20. ^ "About Deutsche Zeitung. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1901-1916". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  21. ^ "About West Virginia patriot. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1916-191?". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  22. ^ "About West Virginische staats-zeitung. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1887-1901". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  23. ^ "About Wheelinger volksblatt. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1880-1887". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  24. ^ "About Virginische staats-zeitung = Virginia state gazette. [volume] (Wheeling, Va.) 1848-1863". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  25. ^ "About Der Arbeiter-Freund. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1887". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  26. ^ "Wisconsin's First Newspaper...by Women". Quixote. 8 (3 (not a duplicate)): 5–6. March 1974. doi:10.2307/community.28042973 – via JSTOR.
  27. ^ Bilić, Viktorija. "German-Language Media". Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. Retrieved 2021-01-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  28. ^ "Anneke, Mathilde, 1817-1884". Wisconsin Historical Society. 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2021-01-09.

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