Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung

The Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung was founded on September 5, 1945. It received license number 9 from the American military administration and was the first German daily newspaper to appear in what was then Württemberg and Baden after the Second World War. The distribution area stretched from Darmstadt to Karlsruhe, the circulation of the newspaper, which was initially only published three times a week, was around 300,000 copies. Founding editors were the social democrat Herrmann Knorr, the liberal Theodor Heuss and the communist Rudolf Agricola. The party affiliation corresponded to the specifications of the US military administration. Heuss switched to politics in 1946 and became the first German President in 1949. Agricola went to what was then the Soviet occupation zone and took over a chair in newspaper sciences in Halle, and later political economy. Herrmann Knorr ran the newspaper successfully through the post-war period up to the 1970s. Then his sons Winfried and Ludwig Knorr took over the business. Today, Inge Höltzcke, Joachim Knorr and Michael Gindele manage the business of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung and its subsidiaries. The editor-in-chief is in the hands of Inge Höltzcke and Klaus Welzel. The Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung sees itself as a non-partisan press organ. Its journalistic principles are based on independence, objectivity, social responsibility and a Christian image of man. Political education and enlightenment are important to her. As the most important medium for Heidelberg, the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis and the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung sees itself with its eight local editions as a regionally anchored daily newspaper of national importance, which covers what is happening in the city both in its print edition and online of the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region, but also in Germany and the world. 80 editors and 170 other employees work on the daily success of the RNZ. Source