Australische Zeitung

The Süd Australische Zeitung was a German language newspaper published in Tanunda, South Australia from late 1849 to December 1874. It was succeeded immediately by the Australische Zeitung which ceased publication in 1916. The long history of German language Australian newspapers reflects the considerable German-speaking population which settled in South Australia in the nineteenth century.

The Suedaustralische Zeitung was first published in late 1849 in Roman type ‘as if to indicate its rejection of tradition,’ and was radical in its political views. The following year it was being printed in traditional black letter type and titled Südaustralische Zeitung.

In 1850, it was owned by Otto Schomburgk and Carl Muecke and by Gustav Dröge, who also acted as editor.

The Südaustralische Zeitung was sold to an Adelaide newspaper proprietor, Rudolf Reimer, in 1851, and merged with his own paper. The merged Adelaider Deutsche Zeitung first appeared in April 1851. It was taken over by Wilhem Eggers in September 1851 and published at the offices of the South Australian Register. Production ceased for a few years due to the Victorian gold rush, then resumed under separate owners. The title Süd-Australische Zeitung was revived in Tanunda in January 1860, with C. H. Barton, a prominent citizen, as editor and owner, but the paper floundered, with a circulation of just 400 and was in 1863 taken over by Eggers and Eimer and published in Adelaide, and achieved a circulation of 1500. Barton and Basedow retaliated with a new Tanunda publication, the Tanunda Deutsche Zeitung. Barton was later to become bankrupt and in 1867 fled to Maryborough, Queensland, owing substantial sums to his Tanunda backers.

In 1874 the German language newspapers of Adelaide and Tanunda once again merged as the Australische Zeitung, under publishers Basedow, Eimer & Co. (Frederick Basedow and George Eimer); and Dr. Muecke was appointed editor. In 1876 they absorbed the Neue Deutsche Zeitung, a competing paper published by G. C. L. and F. A. Reiger, and J. W. A. Sudholz. The paper was regularly advertised in the Mount Barker Courier.

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