Münster gained the status of a Großstadt (major city) with more than 100,000 inhabitants in 1915.Currently there are 300,000people living in the city, with about 48,500 students, only some of whom are recorded in the official population statistics as having their primary residence in Münster.

In 793, Charlemagne sent out Ludger as a missionary to evangelise the Münsterland. In 797, Ludger founded a school that later became the Cathedral School.Gymnasium Paulinum traces its history back to the school.Ludger was ordained as the first bishop of Münster. The first cathedral was completed by 850.The combination of ford and crossroad, market place, episcopal administrative centre, library and school, established Münster as an important centre.In 1040, Heinrich III became the first king of Germany to visit Münster.

In 1534, the Anabaptists led by John of Leiden, took power in the Münster Rebellion and founded a democratic proto-socialistic state. They claimed all property, burned all books except the Bible, and called it the “New Jerusalem”. John of Leiden believed he would lead the elect from Münster to capture the entire world and purify it of evil with the sword in preparation for the Second Coming of Christ and the beginning of the Millennium. They went so far as to require all citizens to be naked as preparation for the Second Coming. However, the town was recaptured in 1535; the Anabaptists were tortured to death, their corpses were exhibited in metal baskets (often confused with cages), which can still be seen hanging from the Tower of St. Lambert’s steeple.

Part of the signing of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 was held in Münster.This ended the Thirty Years’ War and the Eighty Years’ War. It also guaranteed the future of the prince-bishop and the diocese; the area was to be exclusively Roman Catholic.

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It was founded by Erich Brost and first published 3 April 1948.

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The paid circulation of all regional imprints in 2012 was 294,251 (excluding Bietigheimer Zeitung and Eberbacher Zeitung), while the paid circulation of the Südwest Presse newspaper was 59,959. The distribution area of Ulm, Neu-Ulm and Alb-Donau-Kreis overlaps with several other dailies, including Schwäbischen Zeitung, the Augsburger Allgemeinen and the Stuttgarter Nachrichten, and so there is a competitive relationship despite their correspondent and economic co-operation, detailed below. Südwest Presse, along with most of its sister newspapers, is printed in Rhenish format. A few of the smaller affiliated newspapers use Berliner style.

The main office of Neue Pressegesellschaft in Ulm issues Südwest Presse-produced national and regional stories for a large number of local publishers. The sections produced are Internationale und Bundes-Politik (international and federal politics), Wirtschaft (economy), Südwest-Umschau (Southwestern sights), Feuilleton (features), Kulturspiegel (cultural mirror), Brennpunkt (focus), Blick in die Welt (worldview), überregionaler Sport (sports in the region), Wochenendbeilage (weekend supplement), and Sonderveröffentlichungen (Special publications). Associated newspapers may use and adapt any of these sections in their own daily newspaper, which they combine with their own local news. The Südwest Presse daily prints almost all of these sections. It is one of the only local newspapers that operates (partly with other newspapers) its own correspondent offices (for instance, in Berlin, Moscow, Washington DC, Paris, London, Rome, and Stuttgart). A total of 18 publishers are behind the correspondent group, located in a region from Bad Mergentheim in the north to Villingen-Schwenningen in the southwest.

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It was first edited on 18 September 1945, just a few months after the end of the Second World War. With northern and central Württemberg being part of the American occupation zone from 1945 to 1949, it was the U.S. Information Control Division that issued the first publishing licence to the editors Josef Eberle, Karl Ackermann and Henry Bernhard during the first years of the paper’s existence. Erich Schairer joined them as co-editor in the fall of 1946. After Schairers death, Eberle remained the editor until 1972. Today, its publishing house is Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding.

It is mainly read in Baden-Württemberg and therefore has a strong local and regional focus, but also has significant supra-regional, national and international sections, covered by separate respective editorial departments.

The paper was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of regional newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2010.

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In 2001 Sächsische Zeitung had a circulation of 340,000 copies and 880,000 readers.

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With an average circulation of about 400,000 and its headquarters in Düsseldorf, the paper is especially dominant in the western part of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Rheinische Post is one of the allied new foundations in the post-World War II era. NSDAP-opponents Karl Arnold, Anton Betz, Erich Wenderoth and (soon resigned) Friedrich Vogel received a British newspaper licence. Nowadays the newspaper belongs to the Arnold, Betz, Droste, Alt and Ebel families (last updated: July 2008).

The core distribution area stretches from the Bergischen Land to the Dutch border. There are 31 local editions, among them other regional newspapers, like the Neuß-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, the Benrather Tageblatt and the Bocholter-Borkener Volksblatt, which have their own regional news pages. The Rheinische Post is available at kiosks as well as through subscriptions. The paper is published in Rhenish format.

In 2001 Rheinische Post had a circulation of 418,000 copies.The circulation of the paper was 411,000 copies.

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Ostsee-Zeitung was one of the newspapers published in East Germany before the unification. The paper belonged to the Socialist Unity Party during this period.It is based in Rostock and is published in Rheinisch format.

Ostsee-Zeitung was part of the Ostsee-Zeitung GmbH, a subsidiary of the Axel Springer group, until 2008.The group acquired the shares in the paper in 1990.Lübecker Nachrichten GmbH, a subsidiary of the Madsack group, bought the paper in February 2009.The Madsack group also owns Freie Presse, Göttinger Tageblatt, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Kieler Nachrichten, Leipziger Volkszeitung, and Lübecker Nachrichten.

The publisher of Ostsee-Zeitung is the Ostsee Zeitung publishing house.The paper has ten local editions.

People living in the Neue Bundeslander regard Ostsee-Zeitung as part of their identity.

The circulation of Ostsee-Zeitung was 232,100 copies in the mid-1990s before the unification.In 2001 the paper had a circulation of 191,000 copies. Its circulation was 181,046 copies in the second quarter of 2003.

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The newspaper was created in 1951 by the merger of the Oberhessische Zeitung and the Marburger Presse

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