Allgemeine Schweizer Zeitung

Title: Allgemeine Schweizer Zeitung

Canton: Bern

Available online: 4 April 1829 - 31 December 1846 (2,689 issues, 12,655 pages)

Bibliografic information (Helveticat): http://permalink.snl.ch/bib/sz991019022834603976

Rights: public domain

Segmentation level: article level

Description: The Allgemeine Schweizer Zeitung was published from 1831 onwards as the title that succeeded the Neue Schweizer Zeitung, after a private joint-stock company made up of young patricians had taken over the newspaper, which had until then been run by the government. Initially printed at the Stämpfli printing house in Bern, the newspaper passed to the printer and publisher Carl Rätzer (1798-1864) in 1833, following the sudden expulsion of the editor-in-chief Heinrich Albrecht. In 1831, the newspaper of the conservative patricians of the city of Berne engaged in a harsh dispute with the liberals and their publication, the Berner Volksfreund, over the referendum on the new constitution. In contrast to the liberals, the Allgemeine Schweizer Zeitung was not hindered by censorship. After the advent of the liberal government, it positioned itself as an opposition paper and continued to make the fight against the liberal people's government its main content. Non-political content was given much less weight, but could also be found, for example with recommendations against the cholera disease raging in Europe in 1833 or accident reports. In 1846, the newspaper was discontinued when the radicals came to power.