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List of German-language newspapers published in the United States

In the period from the 1830s until the First World War, dozens of German-language newspapers in the United States were published. Although the first German immigrants had arrived by 1700, most German-language newspapers flourished during the era of mass immigration from Germany that began in the 1820s.[1]

Illinois Staats-Zeitung's 1871 building in Chicago, one of the largest German language newspapers in the 19th century

Germans were the first non-English speakers to publish newspapers in the U.S., and by 1890, over 1,000 German-language newspapers were being published in the United States.[1] The first German language paper was Die Philadelphische Zeitung, published by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia beginning in 1732; it failed after a year.[1] In 1739, Christopher Sauer established Der Hoch-Deutsche Pennsylvanische Geschicht-Schreiber, later known as Die Germantauner Zeitung.[2] It was one of the most influential pre-Revolutionary weekly newspapers in the colonies.[2] By 1802, Pennsylvanian Germans published newspapers not only in Philadelphia, but also in Lancaster, Reading, Easton, Harrisburg, York, and Norristown.[1] The oldest German Catholic newspaper, the Cincinnati Archdiocese's Der Wahrheitsfreund, began publishing in 1837.[3][4] By 1881, it was one of five German papers in the Cincinnati market.[5]

The newspapers were hit by two rounds of closures due to sudden drops in advertising revenue. As the U.S. entered World War I, many advertisers stopped placing advertisements in German newspapers. Later, with the onset of Prohibition in 1920, the remaining newspapers faded, as older generations died and newer generations chose not to embrace a German-American identity, with Americanization.[1] A few American newspapers in the German language remain extant today.

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California

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  • Neue Presse USA, Hemet, 1986–present

Florida

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  • Florida Sun, Orlando

New York

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Pennsylvania

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Defunct

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The building of Der Deutsche Correspondent in Baltimore
 
The 1874 building of the St. Louis Westliche Post
 
The building of the St. Louis Anzeiger des Westens in 1887
 
The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung's 1873 building
 
The 1868 building of the Philadelphia Demokrat

Arkansas

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California

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Colorado

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Connecticut

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Florida

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Illinois

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Iowa

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Louisiana

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Maryland

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  • Baltimore Wecker, Baltimore, 1851–1877
  • Der Deutsche Correspondent, Baltimore, 1841–1918, merged into Baltimore Correspondent
  • Bayrisches Wochenblatt, Baltimore, 1880–1919, merged into Baltimore Correspondent
  • (Täglicher) Baltimore Correspondent, Baltimore, 1919–1976[15][16][17]

Massachusetts

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Michigan

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  • Nordamerikanische Wochenpost, Warren, 1854–2022

Minnesota

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Missouri

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Montana

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Nebraska

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Nevada

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New York

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North Dakota

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Ohio

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Oregon

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Main article: German language newspapers of Oregon

Pennsylvania

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South Carolina

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South Dakota

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Tennessee

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Virginia

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Washington DC

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

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National newspapers

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  • Amerika Woche, 1972–present
  • Der Ruf, distributed to German POWs across the United States during World War II

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Grohsgal, Leah Weinryb (2 July 2014). "Chronicling America's Historic German Newspapers and the Growth of the American Ethnic Press". neh.gov. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ^ a b "A History of Pennsylvania Newspapers". libraries.psu.edu. The Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  3. ^ McCann, Mary Agnes (1920). "The Most Reverend John Baptist Purcell, D.D., Archbishop of Cincinnati (1800-1883)". The Catholic Historical Review. 6 (2). American Catholic Historical Association: 183. ISSN 0008-8080. JSTOR 25011687.
  4. ^ Clark, S. J. (1912). Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 2. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 12.
  5. ^ "A Word About the Enquirer". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Vol. 39, no. 293. October 20, 1881. p. 4. ProQuest 888489269.
  6. ^ "Arkansas Freie Presse (Little Rock, Ark.) 1874-1876". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  7. ^ "Das Arkansas Echo (Little Rock, Ark.) 1891-1932".
  8. ^ "California Staats-Zeitung (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1852-1918". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  9. ^ MacArthur, Mildred (1917). History of the German Element in the State of Colorado. R and E Research Associates. p. 42.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Oehlerts, Carl (1964). Guide to Colorado Newspapers 1859-1963. Denver: Bibliographical Center for Research Rocky Mountain Region, Inc.
  11. ^ Kloss, Heinz (1977). The American Bilingual Tradition. Newberry House. p. 106. ISBN 0912066067.
  12. ^ "Deutscher Anzeiger (Freeport, Ill.) 1853-1917". Library of Congress. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
  13. ^ Juengling (28 January 2017). "95 Jahre Eintracht". Eintracht (in German). 95 (20): 1.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Merrill, Ellen (2014). Germans of Louisiana. Pelican Publishing. pp. 194–202. ISBN 978-1455604845.
  15. ^ "Baltimore Correspondent". Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  16. ^ "Täglicher Baltimore Correspondent". Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  17. ^ "Baltimore Correspondent. [volume]". Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  18. ^ "Nebraska Staats-Anzeiger (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1880-1901 [Online Resource]". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  19. ^ "Lincoln Freie Presse (Lincoln, Neb.) 1884-1942 [Online Resource]". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
  20. ^ a b c Rowell's American Newspaper Directory, Volume 7. New York City: Geo. P. Rowell & Co. Publishers. 1875.
  21. ^ "Buffalo Freie Presse (Buffalo [N.Y.]) 1860-1914". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  22. ^ "Der Katholische Deutschamerikaner = the Catholic German American (New York [N.Y.]) 1910-1910". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  23. ^ "Neue Volks-Zeitung (New York, N.Y.) 1932-1949". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  24. ^ "New-Yorker Tages-Nachrichten (New York [N.Y.]) 1870-1896". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  25. ^ "Oneida Demokrat (Utica, N.Y.) 1855-1871". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  26. ^ "Westliche Blätter (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  27. ^ entry for Richmonder Anzeiger at the Library of Congress
  28. ^ "About Deutsche Zeitung. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1901-1916". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  29. ^ "About West Virginia patriot. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1916-191?". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  30. ^ "About West Virginische staats-zeitung. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1887-1901". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  31. ^ "About Wheelinger volksblatt. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1880-1887". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  32. ^ "About Virginische staats-zeitung = Virginia state gazette. [volume] (Wheeling, Va.) 1848-1863". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  33. ^ "About Der Arbeiter-Freund. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1887". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  34. ^ "Wisconsin's First Newspaper...by Women". Quixote. 8 (3 (not a duplicate)): 5–6. March 1974. JSTOR community.28042973 – via JSTOR.
  35. ^ Bilić, Viktorija. "German-Language Media". Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  36. ^ "Anneke, Mathilde, 1817-1884". Wisconsin Historical Society. 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
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