"Die Welt" is also the name of a weekly publication founded in 1897 by Theodor Herzl in Vienna as organ of the zionist movement.

Die Welt is a German national daily newspaper published by the Axel Springer AG company. It was founded in Hamburg in 1946 by the British occupying forces, and it takes a self-described "liberal cosmopolitan" position in editing.

The average circulation of Die Welt is currently about 209,000 and the paper can be obtained in more than 130 countries. Daily regional editions appear in Berlin and Hamburg, and in 2002 the paper experimented with a Bavarian edition. A daily regional supplement also appears in Bremen. The main editorial office is in Berlin, in conjunction with the Berliner Morgenpost.

The newspaper currently publishes a compact edition entitled Welt Kompakt, a 48-page cut-down version of the main broadsheet.

Die Welt is the flagship publication, within the so-called quality newspaper market, of the Axel Springer empire. Its leading competitors are the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau. Financially, it has been a lossmaker for many years.

Die Welt was a founder member of the European Dailies Alliance (EDA), within which it has a longstanding co-operation with comparable daily newspapers from other countries, including the Daily Telegraph (UK), Le Figaro (France) and ABC (Spain).

The paper does not appear on Sundays, but the linked publication Welt am Sonntag takes its place.

External links

• Welt.de - Die Welt online
• (http://www.wams.de/)-"Die Welt am Sonntag" online sunday edition from autonomous but linked newspaper.

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