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[Party newspaper from Germany] [text=the Jewish-American weekly newspaper
_Forverts_ ("The Forward"), or _Vorwärts!_ , the 19th century journal of the
Communist League , or " Vorwärts! Vorwärts! ", the Nazi-youth song] [italic
title] [date=March 2020] {{Infobox newspaper | name = Vorwärts | logo =
Vorwärts.svg | image = Vorwaerts nr 1.png | caption = Front page of the first
issue (1 October 1876) of [de] | owners = Social Democratic Party of Germany |
foundation = [1876] | publishing_country = Germany | circulation = 360,000 |
ISSN = 0042-8949 | political = Social democracy<br> | circulation_date = 2020
| website = [vorwaerts.de] }} [DE] ([de] [de]; "Forward") is a newspaper
published by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Founded in 1876,
it was the central organ of the SPD for many decades. Following the party's
Halle Congress (1891), it was published daily as the successor of _Berliner
Volksblatt_, founded in 1884. Today, it is published every two months, mailed
to all SPD members.
** History
The paper was founded as a merger of the Eisenacher's _Der Volksstaat_ and the
Lasalleans _Der Sozialdemokrat_ (General German Workers' Association). Its
first editors were Wilhelm Hasenclever and Wilhelm Liebknecht.<ref
name=Steenson>[last=Steenson]
Friedrich Engels and Kurt Tucholsky both wrote for [de]. It backed the
Russian Marxist economists and then, after the split in the Party, the
Mensheviks. It published articles by Leon Trotsky, but would not publish any
by Vladimir Lenin.
During the First World War, [de] remained in favour of pacifism and neutrality
and opposed the SPD's _Burgfriedenspolitik_ until 1916 when, sometime after
Rudolf Hilferding had been drafted into the Austrian army, [Friedrich
Stampfer] was introduced as editor-in-chief. He guided the central organ back
towards the party line (prompting accusations from half of the Socialist camp
that it had become chauvinist).
The paper was staunchly opposed to the October Revolution, standing up for the
attempt to bring parliamentarism to Germany.[1]
In 1923, [de] lost a libel trial brought by Adolf Hitler, and was ordered to
pay him 6,000,000 marks. The paper had claimed Hitler was financed by
"American Jews and Henry Ford."[2][3]
During the Nazi period, the Social Democratic Party of Germany was banned, and
so the publication of [de] in Germany had to stop in 1933, but it was
continued in exile in Czechoslovakia until 1938 and subsequently in Paris
until 1940.
In 1948, the paper was refounded as _Neuer Vorwärts_ ("New Forward") and in
1955 renamed [de] again. As of 2020, it has a circulation of about 360,000
every two months,[4] because it is mailed to all SPD members.
** See also
- _Wisconsin Vorwärts (Wisconsin Forward)_
** Footnotes
[2]
** External links
- MIA Glossary of Periodicals (see http://www.marxists.org/glossary/periodicals/v/o.htm)
- _Vorwärts_ Website (German) (see http://www.vorwaerts.de)
- Vorwärts archive 1876-1940 (see http://fes.imageware.de/fes/web) at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
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