List of German-language newspapers published in the United States

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Illinois Staats-Zeitung 's 1871 building in Chicago, one of the largest German language newspapers in the 19th century

In the period from the 1830s until the First World War, dozens of German-language newspapers in the United States were published. Although the first German immigrants had arrived by 1700, most German-language newspapers flourished during the era of mass immigration from Germany that began in the 1820s. [1]

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Germans were the first non-English speakers to publish newspapers in the U.S., and by 1890, over 1,000 German-language newspapers were being published in the United States. [1] The first German language paper was Die Philadelphische Zeitung , published by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia beginning in 1732; it failed after a year. [1] In 1739, Christopher Sauer established Der Hoch-Deutsche Pennsylvanische Geschicht-Schreiber, later known as Die Germantauner Zeitung . [2] It was one of the most influential pre-Revolutionary weekly newspapers in the colonies. [2] By 1802, Pennsylvanian Germans published newspapers not only in Philadelphia, but also in Lancaster, Reading, Easton, Harrisburg, York, and Norristown. [1] The oldest German Catholic newspaper, the Cincinnati Archdiocese's Der Wahrheitsfreund , began publishing in 1837. [3] [4] By 1881, it was one of five German papers in the Cincinnati market. [5]

The newspapers were hit by two rounds of closures due to sudden drops in advertising revenue. As the U.S. entered World War I, many advertisers stopped placing advertisements in German newspapers. Later, with the onset of Prohibition in 1920, the remaining newspapers faded, as older generations died and newer generations chose not to embrace a German-American identity, with Americanization. [1] A few American newspapers in the German language remain extant today.

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The building of Der Deutsche Correspondent in Baltimore
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The 1874 building of the St. Louis Westliche Post
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The building of the St. Louis Anzeiger des Westens in 1887
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The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung 's 1873 building
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The 1868 building of the Philadelphia Demokrat

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