Bremer Tageszeitung AG

The Bremer Tageszeitung AG (BTAG) (Bremer newspaper AG) is a publishing house that publishes various regional newspapers in the city of Bremen and nearby regions in Lower Saxony.

The WK forms the title pages of the local newspapers Bremer Nachrichten and Verdener Nachrichten as well as the Sunday newspaper Kurier am Sonntag, which appear in Bremen and the lower Saxon environs.

[1] BTAG was founded in 1945 under commercial law as a public limited company and is owned half by the Bremen family Hackmack and Hamburg photographer Christian Güssow.

It was one of the first licensed newspapers in occupied Germany after the Second World War and appeared on four sides for the first time on 19 September 1945.

At this time Weser-Kurier cost 20 pfennigs and was available on Wednesdays and Saturdays with a circulation of 150,000 copies.