Rheinische Post

Rheinische Post

The 17 September 2010 front page of Rheinische Post
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Rhenish
Owner(s)	Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Editor	Sven Gösmann
Founded	2 March 1946
Headquarters	Düsseldorf, Germany
Website	www.rp-online.de

The Rheinische Post is a major German regional daily newspaper, published since 1946 by the Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH company. With 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 license. The newspaper was established in 1946 and belongs to the Arnold, Betz, Droste, Alt and Ebel families.

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.

The circulation of Rheinische Post was 343,000 copies during the third quarter of 1992. In 2001 the paper had a circulation of 418,000 copies. The circulation of the paper was 411,000 copies in 2004. Its circulation was 399,215 copies in the first quarter of 2006.

Sven Gösmann has been the editor since July 2005 (he was the vice-editor of the Bild in Hamburg). Horst Thoren has been vice-editor since 1998. Regional editorial staff give their opinions in news articles.

Joachim Sobotta, was editor from 1969 to 1997, he had a large impact on the style of the newspaper. Sven Gösmann's predecessor, Ulrich Reitz, is now editor of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung; Reitz accomplished a range of editorial reforms and cancelled the dpa-ticker.