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{{Short description|Swiss daily newspaper}}
{{primary sources|date=August 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Der Bund<br />(English:  The Union)
| logo = Logo Der Bund.svg
| logo_size = 175px
| image = [[Image:Der Bund 15 October 2009 cover.jpg|175px|border]]
| caption = ''Der Bund'' front page of 15 October 2009
| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format = [[Berliner (format)|Berliner]]
| owners = [[Tamedia]]
| founder = [[Franz Louis Jent]]
| publisher = [[Charles von Graffenried]]<ref name="Impressum">{{cite web|title=Impressum "Der Bund"|work=Der Bund| url=http://www.derbund.ch/services/Impressum-Der-Bund/story/21206230|access-date=18 August 2012|date=n.d.}}</ref><!--note:  [[Charles von Graffenried]] was listed in infobox at august 2012 (with accessdate of september 2010, but is now not on source given.  can somehow be worked into prose?-->
| editor = 
| chiefeditor = Patrick Feuz
| maneditor = 
| newseditor = 
| managingeditordesign = 
| opeditor = 
| sportseditor = 
| photoeditor = 
| staff = 
| foundation = {{start date and years ago|1850|10|1|df=yes}}
| political = [[Classical liberalism|Liberalism]]
| language = German
| headquarters = [[Bern]]
| publishing_country = Switzerland
| circulation = 52,705 ({{as of|2009|lc=yes}})<ref name="WEMF 2009"><!--not in wayback machine-->{{cite web|title=WEMF/SW-Auflagebeglaubigung|url=https://machonline.wemf.ch/Wemf/DE/Auflagen09/Default.htm|access-date=23 September 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707004907/https://machonline.wemf.ch/Wemf/DE/Auflagen09/Default.htm|archive-date=2011-07-07}}</ref>
| sister newspapers = ''[[Newsnetz]]'' papers, including ''[[Berner Zeitung]]'', ''[[Tages-Anzeiger]]'' and ''[[Basler Zeitung]]''
| ISSN = 1421-1769
| eISSN = 2673-7809
| oclc = 12417442
| website = [http://www.derbund.ch derbund.ch]
}}

'''''Der Bund''''' (English:  ''The Union'') is a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] German-language daily newspaper published in [[Bern]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Switzerland Starting Business (Incorporating) in Switzerland Guide Strategic and Practical Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=akUVxX_87EsC&pg=PA236|access-date=13 April 2015|publisher=Int'l Business Publications|isbn=978-0-7397-1688-5|page=235}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Historical Dictionary of Switzerland|024773|Der Bund (journal)|author=Bollinger, Ernst|date=2019-07-09}}</ref>

Established in 1850 and associated with the cause of [[Classical liberalism|liberalism]], it was among the leading quality newspapers in Switzerland for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. In economic distress since the 1980s, its circulation has dropped and it has changed ownership several times since then. It is now owned by the [[Tamedia]] publishing group.

==History==
===19th century===
[[File:Der-Bund-1850.jpg|thumb|left|''Der Bund'''s first edition]]
The newspaper was founded by [[Franz Louis Jent]], a bookseller from [[Solothurn]] and veteran of the ''[[Freischarenzüge]]''{{spaced ndash}} the Liberal insurrections of 1844&ndash;45 that led to the 1847 [[Sonderbund War]], a Swiss [[civil war]].<ref name=Sulc>{{clarify|date=August 2012|reason=attribution in german language. at minimum, needs English translation of german title appended to "trans_title" field.}} {{cite web|last=Sulc|first=Adrian|title=''160 Jahre Der Bund: Das liberale Gewissen der Bundesstadt. Wie die Idee des "Bund" in London entstand und die Zeitung 1850 zu ihrem Namen kam.''|url=http://files.newsnetz.ch/upload/4/6/4647.pdf|access-date=18 August 2012|work=Der Bund|date=23 September 2010|page=7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116085824/http://files.newsnetz.ch/upload/4/6/4647.pdf|archive-date=16 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The newspaper's name, ''Der Bund'', translates as "The Union", but is also shorthand for the [[Switzerland as a federal state|Swiss Confederation]], the democratic federal state established in 1848 by the Liberal victors of the civil war.

The newspaper was first published on 1 October 1850 with a daily circulation (including Sundays) of 1,000, and was sold by subscription for 26 ''[[batzen]]'' for three months. Its circulation soon grew nationwide, briefly rising to more than 10,000 during the [[Franco-Prussian War]] of 1870&ndash;71. By 1875, according to the conservative ''Intelligenzblatt'',  ''Der Bund'' was Switzerland's leading news medium.<ref name=Sulc /><ref>{{clarify|date=August 2012|reason=what is English translation?}} "das erste und bedeutendste publizistische Organ der Eidgenossenschaft".</ref>

It was initially intended to be a neutral, national newspaper modeled after the British newspaper ''[[The Times]]''. But in the intensely polarized political and cultural environment of the period, the editors{{spaced ndash}} Abraham Roth and Johann Karl Tscharner{{spaced ndash}} soon took the side of the Liberals, then governing the federal state but in opposition to the majority Conservatives in the [[Canton of Bern]].<ref name=Sulc /> The newspaper notably focused on publishing the deliberations of the national parliament and government, to which it had unique connections: three [[Federal Council (Switzerland)|Federal Councillors]] ([[Constant Fornerod]], [[Stefano Franscini]] and [[Friedrich Frey-Herosé]]) regularly forwarded notes from [[cabinet meeting]]s to the newspaper, and Fornerod even drew a 1,000-[[Swiss franc|franc]] salary from the newspaper for this service.<ref name=Sulc />

In 1893, the newspaper introduced one of the first [[typesetting machine]]s on the European continent, and in 1894 the newspaper helped in establishing the ''[[Schweizerische Depeschenagentur]]'' (SDA), still the country's leading [[press agency]].<ref name=Sulc />

In 1897, a second daily edition was introduced, not to be abandoned until 1967.<ref name=Sulc/>

==List of publishers and co-publishers==
Until 1993, the newspaper was published by members of the Jent family:<ref name=Sulc />
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* [[Louis Jent]] (1810–1867), publisher 1850–1867<ref name=Sulc />
* [[Sophie Jent-Reinert]] (1822–1907), publisher 1867–1881<ref name=Sulc />
* [[Adolf Jent]] (1846–1894), publisher 1874–1894<ref name=Sulc />
* [[Hermann Jent]] (1850–1915), publisher 1874–1915<ref name=Sulc />
* [[Fritz Pochon-Jent]] (1875–1950), publisher 1909–1950<ref name=Sulc />
* [[Alice Pochon-Jent]] (1881–1970), publisher 1950–1970<ref name=Sulc />
* [[Werner Hans Stuber]] (1930–2015), publisher 1961–1993<ref name=Sulc />
* [[Ringier]] (1993–1994)
* [[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]] (1995–2004)
* [[Espace Media]] (2004–2007)
* [[Tamedia]] (since 2007)
{{div col end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.derbund.ch Official website]
* {{e-npa.ch|id=DBB}}
* {{HDS|24773}}

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