It and all other Coburg newspapers were either closed down or incorporated into that paper during the process of Gleichschaltung.

[6] German historian and author Rudolph Genée [de] was an editor of the paper from 1861 to 1864.

[7] During the Weimar era, the paper functioned as a something of a mouthpiece for the German National People's Party; the paper was nationalist leaning, and after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles bemoaned it as "the crushing peace treaty".

[8] During the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the paper enthusiastically reported on the nationalist atmosphere in Germany at the time and relevant events;[9] it, with the Coburger Tageblatt [de] (also center right) focused more on the cultural aspects and not the disorderly elements of the Nazi influence in Coburg, compared to socialist papers.

[10] In 1924, the Völkische Block (an alliance of several right leaning nationalist groups) announced its political aims in the paper, declaring their desire for the removal of civil rights from Jews and decrying miscegenation.