In 1999, Gruner + Jahr sold the newspaper in to Frank Otto and Hans Barlach.
In 2006, the BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding, a company of David Montgomery's Mecom Group[2] and Veronis Suhler Stevenson International, bought the newspaper.
[3] In 2009, Mecom Group sold it to the Cologne-based private publishing company DuMont Schauberg.
[6] In response to the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people died on 7 January 2015, some international organizations such as Reporters Without Borders called for controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoons to be re-published in solidarity with the French satirical magazine and in defense of free speech.
[8] The Hamburger Morgenpost included Charlie Hebdo cartoons on its front cover on January 8[9] and other publications such as Germany's Berliner Kurier and Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza reprinted cartoons from Charlie Hebdo the day after the attack; the former depicted Muhammad reading Charlie Hebdo whilst bathing in blood.