Berner Volksfreund

Title: Berner Volksfreund

Canton: Bern

Available online: 24 February 1831 - 28 December 1845 (1,536 issues, 12,177 pages)

Bibliografic information (Helveticat): http://permalink.snl.ch/bib/sz991019022833903976

Rights: public domain

Segmentation level: article level

HLS: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/058872/2020-04-08

Description: The two brothers Karl and Emanuel Schnell founded the politically liberal Berner Volksfreund in Burgdorf in February 1831. They hired the printer Carl Langlois (1789-1870) and bought a printing press. In order to circumvent the censorship of the authorities, the newspaper was initially printed in Solothurn. Only after the adoption of a liberal constitution in the canton of Bern did they move the printing press to Burgdorf in autumn 1831. The paper was explicitly directed against the Allgemeine Schweizer-Zeitung, which was the mouthpiece of the conservative patricians of the city of Bern. With the arrival of the liberal cantonal government at the end of 1831, the Volksfreund went from being an opposition paper to a government paper, which after a few years turned against the radicals. Its successor from 1846 was the Berner Volkszeitung.