| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | DSZ Verlag |
| Editor | Gerhard Frey |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Political alignment | Far right |
| Ceased publication | December 2019 |
| Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
The National-Zeitung (NZ, National Newspaper) was a weekly, far-right[1][2][3] newspaper, published by Gerhard Frey, who also founded the far-right Deutsche Volksunion (German People's Union) as an association in 1971, turning it into a political party in 1987. The party was merged with the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). NZ was last published in December 2019.
The newspaper was first published in 1951 as the Deutsche Soldaten-Zeitung, came under Frey's control in 1959, was renamed Deutsche National-Zeitung und Soldaten-Zeitung in 1960–61 and Deutsche National-Zeitung in 1963. In 1999 the newspaper was merged with another of Frey's publications, the Deutsche Wochen-Zeitung – Deutscher Anzeiger, and became the National-Zeitung. It lasted under this name for 20 years until December 2019 when it stopped publishing.[4]
The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified the National-Zeitung as propagating a xenophobic, nationalist and revisionist world view.
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