Figure S.12.1
Principal Social Democratic Party Newspapers in Saxony, Subscriptions,
1897–1917
|
Place of |
For Reichstag |
Subscriptions |
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|
|
Publication |
Constituencies |
1897/98 |
1907/08 |
Summer 1910 |
1917 |
|
Der Wähler (1887- ), Leipziger
Volkszeitung (1894- ) |
Leipzig |
(11), 12, 13 |
22,500 |
44,800 |
44,800 |
50,000 |
|
Beobachter / Die Volksstimme (1891- ) |
Chemnitz |
9, 10, (14), 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 |
7,000 + 4,500 |
36,000-43,000 |
40,000 |
ca. 50,000 |
|
Sächsische Arbeiterzeitung /
Dresdner Volkszeitung (1889- ) |
Dresden |
4, 5, 6 |
15,000 |
34,000 |
35,700 |
36,000 |
|
Sächsisches Volksblatt (1891- ) |
Zwickau |
18, 22, 23 |
6,000 |
22,000 |
17,000 |
21,000 |
|
Volksfreund |
Dresden |
1, 2, 3,4, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
4,300 |
17,000 |
- |
- |
|
Volkszeitung für Meißen,
Riesa, Grossenhein, Lemmatzsch
und deren Umgegend (1908- ) |
Meißen / Dresden |
7 |
- |
ca. 6,000 |
6,500 |
unknown |
|
Volkszeitung für Pirna,
Königstein, Sebnitz, Neustand und deren Umgegend (1908- ) |
Pirna / Dresden |
8 |
- |
ca. 6,000 |
6,200 |
9,800 |
|
Volkszeitung für Freiburg, Oderan, Hainichen und deren Umgegend |
Freiburg / Dresden |
9 |
- |
- |
2,300 |
(Nebenausgabe der Dresdner Volkszeitung) |
|
Volkszeitung für das Muldenthal (1901- ) |
Leipzig |
11, 14 |
- |
6,600 |
6,700 |
unknown |
|
Vogtländische Volkszeitung /
Volkszeitung für das Vogtland |
Falkenstein / Plauen |
22, 23 |
1,830 |
10,000 |
- |
- |
|
Der arme Teufel aus der
Oberlausitz (1898-
) |
Dresden |
(1-3), 8, 9 |
4,000 |
4,500 |
- |
- |
|
Volkszeitung für die Oberlausitz (1908- ) |
Zittau |
1, 2, 3 |
- |
- |
9,000 |
12,000
(1913) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Notes: The sources diverge significantly in
some estimates. The Saxon SPD’s party congress Protokoll
of 1899 noted an overall increase in subscriptions from 57,830 to 72,320
between the beginning of 1898 and the middle of March 1899. Winkler, “Statistik” (171), reports only 8 SPD newspapers among a
total of 227 Saxon newspapers in 1917 (of which 126 were “non-partisan” or parteilos). Those 8 SPD organs had an average
circulation of about 30,000—roughly three to four times the average for all
Saxon newspapers (8,300).
Sources: Vorwärts, 21 March 1907, in Fricke, Handbuch,
1:540; SPD Sachsens, Protokoll … Parteitag … Crimmitschau … 1899,
66; ibid., Protokoll … Parteitag … Dresden … 1907, 25; ibid., Protokoll
… Parteitag … Zwickau … 1909, 10; Schrörs, Handbuch,
84; Förstenberg 1910, Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv
Dresden, Kreishauptmannschaft Leipzig, Nr. 254; Bruno Winkler, “Zur Statistik
der politischen Tagespresse,” ZSSL 64/65 (1918/19): 163-84.
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