The Neues Wiener Journal was one of the leading liberal newspapers in Austria during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1] Founded in 1893 by Jakob Lippowitz, [2] it was compulsorily disestablished by Nazi Germany in 1939 when both it and the Neue Freie Presse were forcibly merged with the Neues Wiener Tagblatt . [1]