The ''Freie Presse'' (

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for ''Free Press'') is a regional daily newspaper in the Chemnitz region, Germany.

History and profile

''Freie Presse'' was first published in 1946. The paper is published by the Chemnitzer Verlag in Nordisch format and has its headquarters in

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

. Prior to

German reunification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...

, the paper was the largest regional daily newspaper in

East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

, with a circulation of 663,700. During the third quarter of 1992 the circulation of ''Freie Presse'' was 522,000 copies. In 2001 the paper had a circulation of 401,000 copies. Its 2002 circulation was 376,681 copies. ''Freie Presse'' was the best-selling newspaper in

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

with a circulation of 277,221 copies in the second quarter of 2011, according to IVW. In the fourth quarter of 2019 the paper had a circulation of 213,845 copies.

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* {{Authority control 1963 establishments in West Germany German-language newspapers Daily newspapers published in Germany Mass media in Chemnitz Newspapers established in 1963