Freie Presse (Alsace)


Freie Presse was a German-language daily newspaper published in Alsace. It was published as Freie Presse für Elsass-Lothringen between 1898 and 1918, and as Freie Presse/La Presse Libre 1919-1939 and 1944–1960. The newspaper, edited by Jacques Peirotes, was one of the most constitently pro-French newspapers of Alsace.
The newspaper had a circulation of around 5,000 as of June 1930. It carried the byline "Sozialistisches Organ für das Departement des Nieder-Rheins". The newspaper was an organ of the French Section of the Workers International.