The September 17, 2010 front page of Augsburger Allgemeine |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Owner | Mediengruppe Pressedruck |
| Founded | 30 October 1945 |
| Headquarters | Augsburg, Germany |
| Official website | www.augsburger-allgemeine.de |
The Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung is a major German regional daily newspaper published since 1945.[1]
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The newspaper was first published on 30 October 1945 under the name of Schwäbische Landeszeitung, under the initiative of Curt Frenzel.[2] Originally, due to the restrictions in early post-war Germany, it was only published twice-weekly.[3] Frenzel had received a licence to publish a newspaper from Colonel Bernhard MacMahon of the US military government in Bavaria.[4]
After Curt Frenzel's death in 1970, his daughter Ellinor Holland continued the newspaper that was renamed to Augsburger Allgemeine on 1 November 1959.[5] The newspaper and publishing company are still fully owned by the Holland family and now managed by the third generation.[4]
In the second quarter of 2008, the newspaper sold 344,537 copies.[6]
From 1807 to 1882, a Allgemeine Zeitung was published in Augsburg but it is not connected to the later newspaper.[7]
The Augsburger Allgemeine is part of a network of local newspapers in Swabia and parts of Upper Bavaria, these being:[8]