Adolf Werthner was the founder of the Neue Freie Presse

Neue Freie Presse

Neue Freie Presse known locally as "Die Presse" was a Viennese newspaper founded by Adolf Werthner together with the journalists Max Friedländer and Michael Etienne on 1 September 1864...

newspaper and president of the Oesterreichischen Journal-Aktien-Gesellschaft. He was born in Breslau, Prussian Silesia, and died in Vienna

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, Austria-Hungary

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Werthner entered the administration of Die Presse

Die Presse

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, which was founded by August Zang

August Zang

August Zang, , a nineteenth century Austrian entrepreneur best known for founding the Viennese daily "Die Presse"...

 during the revolutionary year of 1848

Revolutions of 1848 in the German states

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. After a dispute with Zang, Werthner left the newspaper's editorial board in 1864. Shortly afterward, Werthner, Max Friedländer

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, and Michael Etienne founded the Neue Freie Presse on 1 September 1864.