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[[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 ''[[:de:National-Zeitung (19. Jahrhundert)|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 [[Agence France-Presse|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=
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