Berliner Morgenpost

Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is the second most read daily newspaper.

History and profile

Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, the paper was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959. It was sold to Funke Mediengruppe in 2013. The paper had a circulation of 145,556 issues in 2009, with an estimated 322,000 readers The current editor-in-chief is Carsten Erdmann.

It was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of regional newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012.

Editor-in-chiefs

1952–1953 Wilhelm Schulze

1953–1959 Helmut Meyer-Dietrich

1960–1972 Heinz Köster

1973–1976 Walter Brückmann

1976–1978 Werner Marquardt

1978–1981 Wolfgang Kryszohn

1981–1987 Johannes Otto

1988–1996 Bruno Waltert

1996–1999 Peter Philipps

1999–2002 Herbert Wessels

2002 Wolfram Weimer

2003–2004 Jan-Eric Peters

2004–2018 Carsten Erdmann

since 2018 Christine Richter

References

External links

1898 establishments in Germany

Daily newspapers published in Germany

German-language newspapers

German news websites

Newspapers published in Berlin

Newspapers established in 1898