TY - JOUR AU - Frei, Norbert AB - By Norbert Frei But there is at least one important Of the 3,400 newspapers in reason to doubt Hugenberg’s economic Weimar Germany, no more ingenuity: Vast parts of his newspaper than 1,000 survived under the empire were outmoded even while under Nazis, and these were reduced construction. The organization of his to a handful after World provincial newspapers was characterized by technological backwardness. A hodge- War II, never to exceed 225. podge of small printing plants, producing numerous hometown papers with small circulations and using low quality, pre- Scholarly writing on the German press fabricated Hugenberg matrices distributed in the Weimar Republic focuses to a large by mail - that was hardly the blueprint extent on the career of one man: Alfred for the mass communication system of Hugenberg, the Deutschnationale Volks- 20th century Germany. Despite Hugen- partei politician and architect of the berg’s strategies of accumulation, Weimar Harzburger Front, whose name in Germany faced a crying need for press German history stands for the Right reform. wing’s effort to tame the National Socialist party after pushing it into power. In addition to his contributions to Background German politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Hugenberg is widely recognized as TI - Reform of the German Press System JF - Journalism Quarterly DO - 10.1177/107769908706400417 DA - 1987-12-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/reform-of-the-german-press-system-SByNd1XEtt SP - 793 EP - 798 VL - 64 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -