''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 city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, where it is the second most read daily newspaper.

History and profile

Founded in 1898 by

Leopold Ullstein Leopold Ullstein (6 September 1826 – 4 December 1899) was the founder and publisher of several successful German newspapers, including '' B.Z. am Mittag'' and ''Berliner Morgenpost.'' Many of these are still published today. Ullstein was als ...

, the paper was taken over by

Axel Springer AG Axel Springer SE () is a German digital and popular periodical publishing house which is the largest in Europe, with numerous multimedia news brands, such as ''Bild'', ''Die Welt'', and ''Fakt'' and more than 15,000 employees. It generated tot ...

in 1959. It was sold to

Funke Mediengruppe Funke Mediengruppe (formerly ''WAZ-Mediengruppe'') is Germany's third largest newspaper and magazine publisher with a total of over 500 publications in eight countries. WAZ-Mediengruppe is privately held by the Funke family and is headquartered i ...

in 2013. The paper had a circulation of 145,556 issues in 2009, with an estimated 322,000 readers The current editor-in-chief is Carsten Erdmann. It was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of regional newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012.

Editor-in-chiefs

* 1952–1953 Wilhelm Schulze * 1953–1959 Helmut Meyer-Dietrich * 1960–1972 Heinz Köster * 1973–1976 Walter Brückmann * 1976–1978 Werner Marquardt * 1978–1981

Wolfgang Kryszohn Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

* 1981–1987 Johannes Otto * 1988–1996 Bruno Waltert * 1996–1999 Peter Philipps * 1999–2002 Herbert Wessels * 2002

Wolfram Weimer Wolfram may refer to: * Wolfram (name) * Wolfram, an alternative name for the chemical element tungsten * Wolfram Research, a software company known for the symbolic computation program Mathematica ** Wolfram Language The Wolfram Language ( ...

* 2003–2004 Jan-Eric Peters * 2004–2018 Carsten Erdmann * since 2018 Christine Richter

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1898 establishments in Germany Daily newspapers published in Germany German-language newspapers German news websites Newspapers published in Berlin Publications established in 1898