Das Tage-Buch

   a weekly periodical founded in 1920 in Berlin* by the Austrian Stefan Grossmann. It is more often associated with Leopold Schwarzschild, who joined Grossmann in 1922. The journal's second editor (from 1930), Schwarzschild was an economics analyst who combined imagi-nation with a solid base of knowledge. Combining humanism with pragmatism, he also avoided party affiliations. A refugee after March 1933, he was counted among the most hostile anti-Communists.

   Although it printed contributions from the anti-Republic Left, Tage-Buch was invariably democratic. It was often compared with the more radical Weltbuhne,* and its circulation and the quality of its contributors paralleled those of its rival. But while Weltbuhne often abused the Republic, Tage-Buch uniformly praised the regime. The journal gave steady, if increasingly desperate, support to Hein-rich Brüning.* In 1932, after Franz von Papen's* Prussian coup, Schwarzschild transferred Tage-Buch to Munich. He hoped that Bavarian particularism might shield journalism against "further departures from strict legality," but the action only underscored the naivete of Germany's democrats.

   Tage-Buch published until 9 March 1933, when, in accord with the "syn-chronization" of Bavaria,* it was banned. Its staff fled to Paris, where Schwarzschild published the first issue of Neue Tage-Buch on 1 July 1933. Providing incisive political and economic analyses, the new journal was a mouthpiece for emigres and a steady irritant to the NSDAP. With Winston Churchill among its contributors, it was quoted regularly in the international media, and its subscribers included diplomats, government officials, and busi-nessmen.

   REFERENCES:Golo Mann, Reminiscences and Reflections; George Mosse, Germans and Jews; Walter, "Schwarzschild."