In the March 2024 issue of Der Kurier Gunter Schanzenbacher illustrates how you can find names of German ancestors in contemporary newspapers that are available online. He gives us examples of several websites where those papers can be found. It is also a way to practice reading the Fraktur German font used in those newspapers. Gunter used the following article as an example.
Grünstadter Zeitung, Nr 132, 6 June 1908
Grünstadt, Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bayern
2) Philipp Schanzenbächer, 20 Jahre
alt, Händler von Tiefenthal, war beschuldigt, am
12 December v.(vorige) Jahr die Ehefrau Adam
Gaub von da dadurch körperlich verletzt zu haben,
dass er ihr einen Fensterladen, hinter welchen sich
dieselbe befand, vorsätzlich an den Kopf schlug.
Das Gericht nahm jedoch nur fahrlässige Körper
verletzung als erwiesen an und verurtheilte den
Angeklagten hierwegen zu einer Geldstrafe von
12 Mark, eventuell 4 Tagen Gefängniss.
Translation:
2) Philipp Schanzenbächer, 20 years old
trader from Tiefenthal, was accused on
12 December previous year by the wife of Adam Gaub
from here, as being physically injured as a result of him
deliberately pushing a window shutter, behind which
she was standing, hitting her on the head.
However, the court only took the negligence causing the
bodily injury into consideration and passed sentence on him,
the defendant, a fine of 12 marks, with a contingency of 4 days in Prison.
