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Iowa German-Language Newspapers in Existence Five or More Years
compiled by Barbara F.H. Allen
Reference Librarian and Bibliographer
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
September 2007
The table below lists the German-language newspapers that were published in Iowa for five years
or longer. Many of them came into existence in the 1870s and 1880s, following peaks of German
immigration to the United States, and ceased publication during or shortly after World War I, in
large part due to a proclamation by Iowa Governor William L. Harding in May of 1918 stating that
English was to be the only language used in public (including in schools and churches).
City
Boone
Name
Boone Herold
Freq.
w
Nachrichten aus
Schleswig
Holstein
Ostfriesische
Nachrichten
Iowa Tribüne
w, bw
Volksfreund
sw
VolksfreundTribüne
Carroll Demokrat
d, w
Germania
w
Iowa Post
sw
Iowa StaatsZeitung
Post und Presse
w
Charles City
Familien-Freund
w
Clinton
Anzeiger
sw
Iowa Volks
Zeitung
Freie Presse
w
Demokrat
d, w,
sw
Iowa Reform
w
Crawford County
w
Breda
Burlington
Carroll
Cedar Rapids
Council
Bluffs
Davenport
Denison
sm,
m
d, w
w
w
w
Dates
18821888?
18881921
18821973?
18611899
18941899
18991919
18741922
18921900?
19021917?
1900?1918?
18791883?
1895?1925?
18981918?
18671926?
18751924?
18511918
18841943
1887-
Other Names / Notes
Avail.
no
cont. in Illinois until 1940
yes
Ostfriesen Zeitung, 1944-1973?
yes
Volksblatt, 1852-1855; Freie
Presse, 1855-1861
no
no
merger of Volksfreund and
Iowa Tribüne
cont. by Freie Presse und
wöchentliche Tribüne, Omaha,
1923-1926
no
yes
no
cont. Iowa City Post, 18811902
yes
no
no
no
Clinton Anzeiger
no
Iowa Volkszeitung
yes
Freie Presse und wöchentliche
Tribüne, 1920-1924?
Wöchentliche Demokrat;
Halbwöchentliche Demokrat
(weekly and semi-weekly
editions)
absorbed Sternen Banner,
1876-1884
Demokrat; merged with Zeitung
yes
yes
yes
no
Demokrat
Herold
w
Zeitung
w
w
Dumont
Iowa StaatsAnzeiger
Iowa StaatsZeitung
Iowa Staats
Zeitung
National
Demokrat
Iowa Volksblatt
Elkader
Nord Iowa Herold
w, sw
Grundy
Center
Holstein
Grundy Center
Courier
Holstein Advance
w
Independence
Independence
Courier
Iowa City Post
w
Iowa City
Volksfreund
Beobachter des
Westens
w
Keokuk Anzeiger
w
Keokuk Post
w
w
Lansing
Keokuk PostAnzeiger
Nord Iowa Post
w
Le Mars
Le Mars Herold
d, w
Lyons
Clinton County
Wochenblatt
Manning Herold
w
Jackson
Demokrat
Jackson Journal
w
Marshalltown
Beobachter
Correspondent
w
Deutsche Zeitung
w
Des Moines
Dubuque
Iowa City
Keokuk
Manning
Maquoketa
Marshalltown
Muscatine
w
w
w
w
w
w
w
w
w
w
1913?
1914?1919?
1885?1913?
18691914?
18861891?
18551873
18561932
1882?1888?
18681916
18811888?
18861918
18811888?
18811902
18741882?
18551870?
18911899
18691899?
1899?1911?
18731878
18841918
18841890?
18941919
18791890?
18831918
18791914?
18891907?
1874-
to become Herold
merger of Demokrat and
Zeitung
Denison Zeitung; cont. German
ed. of Denison Review (18801884); merged with Demokrat
to become Herold
Lit. suppl. Der Haus Schatz
no
no
yes
no
cont. Nordwestliche Demokrat,
1849-1856?
Dubuque National Demokrat
no
yes
no
yes
no
in German and English 18861918; in English 1919-
yes
yes
cont. by Iowa Post, Cedar
Rapids, 1902-1917?
yes
yes
Keokuk deutsche Zeitung,
1857?-?; Keokuk Telegraph,
1865-1869?
no
no
cont. Beobachter des Westens
no
merger of Keokuk Post and
Keokuk Anzeiger
cont. by Nord Iowa Post,
Dubuque, 1878-1880
no
no
no
no
yes
cont. by Jackson Journal
no
no
no
no
cont. by Wacht am Mississippi
no
New Hampton
Deutscher
Anzeiger
Muscatine Herold
w
Wacht am
Mississippi
Iowa Freie
Presse
Nord Iowa Freie
Presse
w
w
w
w
1881?
1897?1907?
1907?1932
1881?1896?
18901915?
1883?1889?
Ottumwa
Journal
w
18711912
Postville
Iowa Volksblatt
w
Schleswig
Schleswig Leader
w
Sigourney
Sigourney
Courier
Courier
w
w
Volksfreund
w
18921916
19031910
18781907
18701918
18851936?
Benton County
Deutsche Zeitung
DeutschAmerikaner
Volks-Zeitung
w
Waverly Phoenix
w
Sioux City
Vinton
Waterloo
Waverly
w
w
18831894?
18721917
18741882
18841924
cont. Wacht am Mississippi;
cont. by Muscatine Herold
Muscatine Herald; in German
1907-1921; in English 19211932; cont. Deutscher Anzeiger
cont. Deutsche Zeitung; cont.
by Deutscher Anzeiger
Freie Presse; cont. Nord Iowa
Freie Presse
cont. Freie Presse (18791883)?; cont. by Iowa Freie
Presse
Ottumwa Journal, 1871-1879;
Journal und Freie Presse,
1879-1890?
no
yes
no
no
no
no
no
in English and German, 19031910; in English 1911-
yes
no
Sioux City Courier
no
Sioux City Volksfreund; in
German, 1885-1928; in
German and English, 19291936
cont. Freie Presse, 1880-1883
yes
no
no
Deutsche Volks-Zeitung, 18741876?; Iowa Volksblatt, 18831885
Waverly Phönix
yes
yes
d – daily; m – montly; sm – semi-monthly; w – weekly; bw – bi-weekly; sw – semi-weekly;
cont. – continues/continued
Avail. – yes, indicates there are current holdings (mostly on microfilm) of more than a few issues;
most of the holdings are at the State Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa City and Des Moines
(check online catalog at: http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F?func=file&file_name=findb&local_base=iow06); public and/or college libraries and historical societies in the cities that the
newspapers were published in usually also have microfilm holdings of their paper(s); also check
OCLC WorldCat for additional holdings (including some holdings in other states)
Avail. – no, indicates there are no current holdings other than perhaps one issue or a few
scattered issues; most of these holdings of individual issues are at the American Antiquarian
Society in Worcester, Massachussetts
The newspapers listed above do not include religiously affiliated papers. Two of the most
noteworthy religious newspapers were published in Dubuque, the Luxemburger Gazette (1871-
1918) and Die Iowa (1875-1892, cont. as Katholischer Westen, 1893-1918). Both papers were
Catholic.
The information provided in the table above is based on listings in the following two sources:
Arndt, Karl J. R., and May E. Olson. The German Language Press of the Americas / Die
deutschsprachige Presse der Amerikas. 3rd rev. ed. 3 vols. Munich: Verlag
Dokumentation Saur KG, 1976. Vol. 1. 130-151.
Iowa Pilot Project of the Organization of American Historians—Library of Congress United States
Newspaper Project. A Bibliography of Iowa Newspapers, 1836-1976. [Iowa City]: Iowa
State Historical Department / Division of the State Historical Society, 1979.