Berliner Morgenpost

Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is one of the most read daily newspapers.

Berliner Morgenpost

The 29 January 2011 front page of Berliner Morgenpost
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Funke Mediengruppe
Editor	Carsten Erdmann
Founded	1898; 127 years ago (1898)
Headquarters	Berlin, Germany
Website	www.morgenpost.de

History and profile

Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, the paper was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959 and sold to Funke Mediengruppe in 2013.^[1] In 2009, it had a circulation of 145,556 and an estimated 322,000 readers.^[2] The current editor-in-chief is Carsten Erdmann.^[3]

In 2012, it was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the regional newspaper category by the European Newspapers Congress.^[4]

Editors-in-chief

• 1952–1953: Wilhelm Schulze
• 1953–1959: Helmut Meyer-Dietrich
• 1960–1972: Heinz Köster
• 1973–1976: Walter Brückmann
• 1976–1978: Hans-Werner Marquardt
• 1978–1981: Wolfgang Kryszohn
• 1981–1987: Johannes Otto
• 1988–1996: Bruno Waltert
• 1996–1999: Peter Philipps
• 1999–2002: Herbert Wessels
• 2002: Wolfram Weimer
• 2003–2004: Jan-Eric Peters
• 2004–2018: Carsten Erdmann
• 2018–2023: Christine Richter
• 2024–present Peter Schink^[5]