Newspaper

Subscribers

Orientation

Notes

Dresdener Journal, ed. J.G. Hartmann

3,500 (–4,000)

official

“court newspaper” and “organ of the Saxon ministries” edited by “Beust’s Factotum”; staff includes Hugo Häpe, who is expected to follow Beust to Vienna

Leipziger Zeitung, ed. Cäsar Dietrich von Witzleben

5,000 (–6,400)

semi-official

Edited since 1854 by Government Counselor von Witzleben, operating under the supervision of Regional Governor Carl von Burgsdorff

Chemnitzer Tageblatt

6,000–7,000

Amtsblatt

widely read in the Erzgebirge for its business news

Budissiner Nachrichten

1,500–2,000

Amtsblatt

favored by Protestant clergy for its particularist views and by Catholics in the Lausitz

Zwickauer Wochenblatt

3,000

Amtsblatt

shows some sympathy for liberal nationalists

Zittauer Nachrichten

3,000

Amtsblatt

Leipziger Tageblatt und Anzeiger

5,000

Amtsblatt

offers mainly business news

Erzgebirgische Volksfreund (Schneeberg)

2,000

Amtsblatt

Freiberger Anzeiger

1,500

Amtsblatt

Sächsische Postillon (Löbau)

1,500

Amtsblatt

shows some sympathy for liberal nationalists

Sächsisches Wochenblatt (Leipzig)

2,000

Amtsblatt

founded by Regional Governor von Burgsdorff; organ of the Saxon police; apparently succeeded the conservatives’ Freimüthige Sachsen-Zeitung

Kamarad (Pirna)

1,800

Amtsblatt

organ of Saxony’s 250 veterans’ associations, “inoculated” with antipathy toward Prussia

Dresdner Nachrichten, ed. Julius Reichardt

13,000

daily

a “common Klatschblatt”; “half satirical, half-sentimental” in tone; Saxony’s most-read newspaper, to be “fully digested” every morning

Leipziger Nachrichten

4,000

daily

Zwickauer Tageblatt

800

daily

sympathetic toward lower-middle-class democrats

Glauchauer Tageblatt

800

daily

all four dailies offer “little political content” and local or business news instead; all rely on the Saxon police for paid announcements

Oberlausitzer Dorfzeitung

3,000–4,000

2 or 2+ / week

Leipziger Dorfzeitung

3,000–4,000

2 or 2+ / week

Sächsiche Dorfzeitung (Dresden), ed. Rudolf Walter

5,000

2 or 2+ / week

reputable organ edited by a member of Dresden’s city assembly; with liberal sympathies, often follows the line of the Berlin Volkszeitung

Sächsische Zeitung (Leipzig), ed. Carl von Burgsdorff

2 or 2+ / week, extreme particularist

founded 1 Nov. 1866; replaces two banned Conservative organs: the Leipziger Abendpost and Dresden’s Reform (Kommunalblatt)

Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Leipzig), ed. Karl Biedermann

3,000–4,000

independent / liberal nationalist

the most important of Saxony’s four “independent” newspapers; a considerable number of subscribers live outside Saxony

Constitutionelle Zeitung, (Dresden) ed. Ludwig Siegel

sank from 3,000 to 1,500 during 1866

“independent” / liberal nationalist

despite Prussian support during the occupation, it lost subscribers due to the “machinations” of the Dresden police

Chemnitzer Nachrichten, ed. Liebig / Ficinus

1,200

“independent” / pro-Prussian

editor Liebig suffered under attacks from enemies of Prussia and has been replaced by Ficinus

Zittauer Anzeiger, ed. Menzel

900

“independent” / pro- then anti-Prussian

defended pro-Prussian views in the Lausitz; banned in October because of anti-Prussian articles probably originating from Austria; future uncertain

Deutsche Volkszeitung (Dresden), ed. Eduard Loewenthal

daily / liberal nationalist

Probenummer published 1 August 1866; died on the vine; considered by Prussians an unwelcome competitor to the Constitutionelle Zeitung

(Reform.) Mitteldeutsche Volks-Zeitung (Dresden and Leipzig), ed. A.M. Colditz

daily / anti-Prussian

Under editor Wilhelm Liebknecht, the MVZ was banned on 29 August 1866; revived without Liebknecht on 1 November, it ceased publication on 31 December 1866

Katholisches Kirchenblatt (Leipzig), ed. Franz Stolle

Catholic, bi-monthly

successor to the Katholisches Monatsblatt