Overview

• On August 1, 1945, seven German editors received license No. 1 in the American occupation zone and launched the Frankfurter Rundschau with an antifascist pledge to eradicate Nazi ideology.
• With Sabrina Hoffmann’s recent appointment as editor-in-chief, the paper enters its 81st year under the Ippen Konzern, supported by a 20 percent stake from Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft.
• A full-day jubilee on September 20 in Frankfurt am Main will bring together readers and figures from politics and civil society to commemorate eight decades of continuous publication.
• The Frankfurter Rundschau maintains a party-independent, social-liberal editorial line grounded in commitment to the German constitution, minority rights and a peace-oriented foreign policy.
• The newspaper has never interrupted its edition, weathering post-war paper shortages, multiple financial rescues and a parent-company insolvency in 2012, buoyed by reader solidarity and institutional support.