The ''Berliner Morgen-Zeitung'' was a daily morning newspaper in

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History

It was first published on 1 April 1889Berliner Morgen-Zeitung
Datenbank der Berliner Tageszeitungen, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 31 December 1995, retrieved 21 April 2011 by Rudolf Mosse, partly inspired by

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's introduction of an evening newspaper, the '' Berliner Abendpost'', some 18 months previously. It was aimed at a more popular readership than Mosse's ''

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''. It was little known in Berlin but widely read in the surrounding countryside and the provinces; it had a higher print run in winter than summer. In the initial year the print run was 60,000 copies; by 1900 it reached approximately 150,000 copies. From 1911, circulation declined and settled at 100,000. However, by 1930 it had the highest circulation in Germany.''Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual'' 4 (1987
p. 227
In 1934, it was taken over by the

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Central Publishing Agency and no longer printed by Mosse. By 1937, circulation had fallen to 11,500. The newspaper was published for the last time on 15 February 1939. The following day it was amalgamated with the ''

Berliner Morgenpost ''Berliner Morgenpost'' is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous c ...

''.

Content and distribution

The ''Berliner Morgen-Zeitung'' offered local news and classified advertising. Initially it was available only in Berlin; after

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, it was also distributed in surrounding districts. It appeared daily in Berlin, 6 days a week outside the city. The Sunday edition was 14 pages, the weekday editions 8 pages. Subscribers received a cookery book, the ''Bürgerliches Kochbuch''. From 1911 to 1918, the ''Illustrierte Familien-Zeitung'' (illustrated family paper) was offered as a supplement. Also before World War I, annual yearbooks and calendars could be ordered. In 1937 an illustrated supplement, ''Volk im Bild'', appeared.

References

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