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Line 1: {{Expand language \|langcode=fr \|otherarticle=Bureau télégraphique Wolff \|langcode2=de \|otherarticle2=Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau \|date=January 2023}} ~~{{refimprove\|date=October 2011}}~~ [[File:Bwolff.JPG\|thumb\|right\|[[Bernhard Wolff]]]] '''Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau''' (1849–1934) was founded by the [[Germany\|German]] [[Bernhard Wolff]] (1811–1879), the editor of the ''[[Vossische Zeitung]]'' and founder of the ''[[{{ill\|National-Zeitung]] (1848–1938)\|de\|lt=National Zeitung}}'' (1848–1938). It was one of the first [[News agency\|press agencies]] in [[Europe]] and one of the three major European [[telegraph]] news [[monopolies]] until the [[World War II]]-era, along with the British [[Reuters]] and the French [[Havas]].<ref name="Kovarik 2015 p. 205">{{cite book \|last=Kovarik \|first=Bill \|chapter=The first electronic revolution: telegraph and telephone \|chapter-url-access=registration \|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/revolutionsincom0000kova/page/194/mode/2up \|title=Revolutions in Communication : Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age. \|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing \|publication-place=New York \|date=2015 \|isbn=978-1-4411-8638-6 \|oclc=1151159541 \|page=[https://archive.org/details/revolutionsincom0000kova/page/204/mode/2up 205] \|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> [[World War I]] resulted in WTB being cut off from many of its international sources and clients due to the cutting of German [[Submarine communications cable\|undersea cables]] by the Allies. The agency came under the control of the German government from 1917 to 1919 and then declined during the economic turmoil of the [[Weimar Republic]], losing influence outside of Germany to competitors Reuters and Havas.<ref name= It was one of the first [[News agency\|press agencies]] in [[Europe]] and one of the three major European [[telegraph]] [[monopolies]] until the [[World War II]]-era, along with the British [[Reuters]] and the French [[Havas]]. In 1865, they formed a European news [[cartel]].<ref>[http://www.environmentalhistory.org/revcomm/features/wire_services/ History of Wire Services, Revolutions in Communication]</ref> "brit">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Wolff-Telegraphic-Bureau\|title=Wolff Telegraphic Bureau (WTB) \| Britannica\|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref> The news agency came to an end soon after the creation of the Nazi government-controlled propaganda news agency {{ill\|Deutsches Nachrichtenbüro\|de}} in 1933.<ref name="brit"/> ==References==▼ {{Reflist\|2}}▼ ▲==References== ▲{{Reflist\|2}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:News agencies based in Germany]] [[Category:Mass media companies established in 1849]] [[Category:1849 establishments in the German Confederation]] [[Category:Mass media companies disestablished in 1934]] [[Category:1934 disestablishments in Germany]] {{Germany-company-stub}}