Pester Lloyd is a German language online daily newspaper from Budapest, Hungary with the focus "on Hungary and Eastern Europe".
Its first stint of existence was from 1854 to 1945; until 1945 it was the leading German language publication in Hungary. Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Alfred Polgar, Ferenc Molnár, Dezső Kosztolányi, Egon Erwin Kisch, Bertha von Suttner, Franz Werfel and Felix Salten were among the better known contributors.
Being published outside the Third Reich's borders until World War II, Pester Lloyd was not subject to Nazi Gleichschaltung and thus, in an article on September 16, 1935, openly criticized the antisemitic Nuremberg Laws of 1935. The paper spoke of the laws allowing an extent of discrimination unheard of in history and compared the situation of the Jews in Nazi Germany to those of the Helots, a slave class in the ancient Greek state of Sparta.
In 1994 the publication resumed as a weekly magazine under the title Der Neue Pester Lloyd. The initial title Pester Lloyd was restored in 1999 (Chefredakteur: Gotthard B. Schicker).
Since 2004, the Wiener Lloyd is part of the publication every four to six weeks, as an insert, reflecting the relations between the two capitals, Vienna and Budapest, of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
As of June 2009 the Pester Lloyd's print version has been discontinued due to economical reasons. New articles can still be read on the newspaper's website. [1]