<i>Münchener Zeitung</i> (1898 – 1943)

The ‘Münchener Zeitung’ had existed since 1898. The publisher was the Münchener Zeitungsverlag KG. The Huck family owned most of the shares. The newspaper regarded itself as bourgeois without a fixed political line; most readers were members of the lower middle class.

In 1920, the paper supported the right-leaning State Premier von Kahr and drummed up support for the militant militias that backed him. From 1924 to 1933, it sympathized with the government of Heinrich Held and advocated for the re-election of Hindenburg as Reich President in 1932.

The Supreme SA Leader and State Secretary for Reich Representative Epp, Ernst Röhm, initiated the dismissal of the Jewish Chief Editor Adolf Schiedt in 1933, although Schiedt had shown his readiness to adapt and supported the agitation against Thomas Mann. Schiedt was succeeded by the local editor Ernst Hohenstatter. The German nationally-oriented editor of the Bavarian section, Ewald Beckmann, endorsed the enforced conformity of the press enacted by the National Socialists in 1933. In 1935, a group of Jewish shareholders in the publishing house were forced to depart. Wolfgang Huck took over their shares. By 1937, the share of advertisements had shrunk significantly. The last issue of the Münchener Zeitung appeared on March 31, 1943.

In 1948, it was succeeded by the Münchner Merkur, which for a while bore the subtitle “Münchner Zeitung”. Once again, two members of the Huck family were shareholders.