Hamburger Anzeiger

Winbauer consistently represented this line, deviating from the more left-liberal course of the Hamburg DDP state association, which was inclined toward the SPD but critical of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP in his editorials.

Normally, the impressive number of visitors would have made it a newsworthy political event, but there was no mention of it in the left-liberal Hamburger Anzeiger, the social-democratic Echo nor in the communist Volkzeitung.

After the election, NSDAP Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann took aggressive action against the newspaper and Winbauer on the pretext of an article that reported on a leaflet; ostensibly to acquaint readers with an example of foreign atrocity propaganda, the Hamburger Anzeiger printed in full the text of the pamphlet allegedly from Czechoslovakia, in which the 'Third Reich' was described as a brutal dictatorship.

[2] He published articles echoing government propaganda,[14] such as that justifying the persecution of homosexual men carried out from July 1936 during the Berlin Summer Olympics by Criminal Police Commissioner Gerhard Günther Kanthack, with the newspaper soon parroting the notion that;"The new Germany has no use for criminals and weaklings, perverts and inverts, but requires instead straightforward and sincere manly souls, and so we must combat homosexuality with the means available to us; education, observation, the law, the police, and the courts.

"[15]Hugo Sieker in a retrospective essay in 1958 and later in his 1973 Cultural work in the spirit of resistance[16] recalls that the supplement of the newspaper, initially under Wolf Schramm, and from 1939 under his own direction, operated a "spirit of resistance"; writing between the lines, they promoted artists such as Ernst Barlach and Friedrich Wield, had the Jewish writer Harry Reuss-Löwenstein write contributions, first under his real name, then under a pseudonym, and also under aliases, Sieker's teachers Adolf Jensen and Wilhelm Lamszus.

Ostensibly due to war economies, decreased advertising causing financial insecurity despite growing sales, and the increasing shortage of paper, finally offered the Nazis a good pretext to strangle the liberal newspapers and make their survival impossible.

21, employing Sieker and other former journalists, and from September 1952 was published with the title Hamburger Anzeiger,[18] under conservative editor-in-chief, earlier a foreign correspondent, Hans-Georg von Studnitz 1953-5.