Reichspost#
Reichspost, daily newspaper in Vienna with a Christian-Socialist tendency, published from January 1, 1894 to September 30, 1938. Founded with the support of the progressive powers within Austrian Catholicism. The Reichspost not only took a political stance against liberalism and social democracy, but also against conservative Catholicism (whose daily newspaper "Das Vaterland" had to be discontinued in 1911). From 1933 the Reichspost supported the ideas of the corporate state. Its editor-in-chief F. Funder (from 1902) was arrested in March 1938, the paper was discontinued on September 30, 1938. Circulation 1901: 5000, 1914: 36,000, 1925: 50,000, 1938: 35,000.
Literature#
H. Pfarrhofer, F. Funder, 1978; M. M. Stadler, Die Situation der Presse in der 1. Republik mit besonderer Beruecksichtigung der "Arbeiter-Zeitung" und der "Reichspost", master´s thesis, Vienna 1990.