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Newspaper Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919

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About Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919

In the early 1800s, Cincinnati, the seat of Hamilton County in southwest Ohio, was home to a vast population of German-speaking immigrants.  The Tägliches Cincinnati Volksblatt (People’s Daily Journal) was one of the nearly 200 German-American publications available during this time.  Established in 1836 as Das Volksblatt, the paper became one of the most popular German-American newspapers in the Midwest and was the only daily German-language newspaper for almost a decade.  When the paper started, the Volksblatt openly supported the Democratic ideology.  Andrew Jackson’s political party made this decision easy because some of his policies were geared towards the immigrant community.   The paper would eventually shun political favoritism and become Independent in 1872 to remain neutral to an ever-growing reader base. 

Serving as the mouthpiece for the German community, the Volksblatt informed its readers on local and national news, as well as offering a healthy dose of European news, as many people still had family overseas, keeping them apprised of the happenings in the homeland. The paper was published entirely in German, with the exception of some advertisements and the occasional article. By 1910, Cincinnati’s two leading German-language newspapers, the Volksblatt and the Cincinnatier Freie Presse, had a combined circulation of 110,000.  This is attributed to the fact that more than half of the city’s population at this time was of German heritage.

The Volksblatt fell on hard times, like all German-language newspapers, during World War I.  Anti-German sentiment was running rampant through the country, and newsstands boycotted German newspapers by refusing to sell them.  On October 6, 1917, federal employees looking for anything that would label the newspaper as enemy “sympathizers,” raided the Volksblatt‘s headquarters. Advertising money, which newspapers relied on to pay their expenses, dried up and the paper began to wither.  The Volksblatt also suffered from the effects of the Prohibition movement sweeping the nation.  No longer able to advertise the brewery industry, a large part of the German culture, German-language newspapers lost a precious source of revenue.  Editor Charles Krippendorf decided that it no longer made financial sense to continue publication and sold the paper to its rival the Cincinnatier Freie Presse for $7,500.  The Volksblatt published its last issue on December 5, 1919.

Provided By: Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH

About this Newspaper

Title

  • Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919

Dates of Publication

  • 1885-1919

Created / Published

  • Cincinnati [Ohio] : Cincinnati Volksblatt Compagnie, [1885-1919]

Headings

  • -  Germans--Ohio--Cincinnati--Newspapers
  • -  German Americans--Newspapers
  • -  Cincinnati (Ohio)--Newspapers
  • -  German Americans
  • -  Germans
  • -  Ohio--Cincinnati
  • -  United States--Ohio--Hamilton--Cincinnati

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Daily (except Sunday)
  • -  Jahrg. 48, no. 195 (15. Aug. 1885)-Jahrg. 83, Nr. 291 (Dec. 5, 1919).
  • -  Also issued on microfilm from Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, and Center for Research Libraries.
  • -  Archived issues are available in digital format from the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • -  In German; some notices also in English.
  • -  Sunday ed.: Westliche Blätter (Cincinnati, Ohio : 1865).
  • -  Weekly ed.: Cincinnati Volksblatt.

Medium

  • volumes : illustrations (chiefly advertisements)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn83045474

OCLC Number

  • 9518448

ISSN Number

  • 2372-305x

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Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt Cincinnati Ohio -1919. (Cincinnati, OH), Jan. 1 1885. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83045474/.

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(1885, January 1) Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt Cincinnati Ohio -1919. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83045474/.

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Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt Cincinnati Ohio -1919. (Cincinnati, OH) 1 Jan. 1885. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn83045474/.