Echo des Ostens

Echo des Ostens
Editor-in-chief
Martin Hoffmann (1922-1926)
Founded1922
Ceased publication
1933
Political alignment
Communist
LanguageGerman language
HeadquartersKönigsberg
Circulation22,800 (1930)
OCLC number648876822

Echo des Ostens ('Echo of the East') was a newspaper published daily from Königsberg. It was the organ of the East Prussia district organization (Bezirk) of the Communist Party of Germany from 1922 to 1933. Echo des Ostens replaced an earlier Königsberg party publication, Die rote Fahne des Ostens.[1][2] The young Martin Hoffmann was the editor of Echo des Ostens until 1926.[3][4] As of 1930, it had an estimated circulation of 22,800.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Archivalische Forschungen Zur Geschichte Der Deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, Vol. 6, Eds. 1. Akademie-Verlag., 1968. p. 452
  2. ↑ Jahrbuch, Vol. 20. Albertus-Universität zu Königsberg i. Pr. 1970. p. 99
  3. ↑ Strauss, Herbert A., Werner Röder, Belinda Rosenblatt, Hannah Caplan, Sybille Claus, and Beatrix Schmidt. Biographisches Handbuch Der Deutschsprachigen Emigration Nach 1933 = International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945. München: Saur, 1980. p. 310
  4. ↑ Broué, Pierre. The German Revolution, 1917 - 1923. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2007. p. 633
  5. ↑ Borowik, Józef. Przeciw propagandzie korytarzowej. Toruń: Instytut bałtycki, 1930. p. 156