''Freie Presse'' ('Free Press') was a
German-language daily newspaper published in
Alsace.
[Fischer, Christopher J. ]
Alsace to the Alsatians?: Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939
'. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. p. 67 It was published as ''Freie Presse für Elsass-Lothringen'' between 1898 and 1918, and as ''Freie Presse/La Presse Libre'' 1919-1939 and 1944–1960.
[Hülsen, Bernhard von. ]
Szenenwechsel im Elsass: Theater und Gesellschaft in Straßburg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich : 1890 - 1944
'. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2003. p. 465 The newspaper, edited by
Jacques Peirotes
Jacques Peirotes (1869, Strasbourg - 1935) was a French and German politician, mayor of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1929.
Biography
The young Jacques Peirotes, son of a carpenter working at the locomotives factory of Graffenstaden, learned the job ...
, was one of the most constitently pro-French newspapers of Alsace.
The newspaper had a circulation of around 5,000 as of June 1930. It carried the byline "''Sozialistisches Organ für das Departement des Nieder-Rheins''" ('Socialist organ for the
Bas-Rhin departement').
[Hülsen, Bernhard von. ]
Szenenwechsel im Elsass: Theater und Gesellschaft in Straßburg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich : 1890 - 1944
'. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2003. p. 246 The newspaper was an organ of the
French Section of the Workers International
The French Section of the Workers' International (french: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a political party in France that was founded in 1905 and succeeded in 1969 by the modern-day Socialist Party. The SFIO was found ...
(SFIO).
[Hülsen, Bernhard von. ]
Szenenwechsel im Elsass: Theater und Gesellschaft in Straßburg zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich : 1890 - 1944
'. Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl, 2003. p. 454
References
Defunct newspapers published in France
Socialist newspapers
French Section of the Workers' International
German-language newspapers published in Alsace-Lorraine
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