Abstract

The Press Today: X. Hugenberg and the German Dailies

The article discusses the rise of the Hugenberg press in Germany. Hugenberg Trust is an organization of twelve persons in a non-profit-making or public-welfare corporation which controls all the Hugenberg concerns. According to the author, such trends are not so marked in the U.S. and Great Britain as in the Anglo-Saxon countries. There it is still possible to find political journals and to keep them alive definitely. The day of individual ownership is not yet really waning. Indeed, the total number of journals in Germany has lately increased. This is due to the large number of political parties and their need of organs to propagate their views. In a greater degree, however, the increase is attributable to a natural recovery from a heavy mortality in the inflation period.