DIE FURCHE newspaper was founded in 1945 by Friedrich Funder - as a contribution to the spiritual reconstruction, to the reconciliation of (party) political camps in the sense of a "conversation of the enemies" (© Friedrich Heer, himself one of the prominent figures of the FURCHE for decades) , At the end of the sixties there was a great ideological conflict of direction, which found its expression in the book "The plowed furrow" of the former FURCHE editor Trautl Brandstaller: It was about the experiment, which was characterized by the liberal Catholic army (and others) Newspaper on a national conservative course.