About Offenbach-Post

Offenbach-Post

The Offenbach-Post (OP) is the regional daily newspaper of Offenbach am Main and the Offenbach district in Hesse. Founded on 3 June 1947 by Udo Bintz with a licence from the American military government — the eleventh daily authorized in postwar Germany — it is published by the Pressehaus Bintz-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG and belongs to the Ippen media group. With a sold circulation of around 25,000 copies, it serves the city of Offenbach — the former leather-goods capital on the Main, directly east of Frankfurt — and the surrounding district. The publishing house's roots reach back to 1773, making the Bintz press one of the oldest publishing traditions in Hesse; the paper's name was modeled on the Washington Post.

Overview

The Offenbach-Post is a regional daily newspaper published daily except Sunday in Offenbach am Main, Hesse. Its distribution area centers on the city of Offenbach — around 140,000 inhabitants, Hesse's fifth-largest city, on the south bank of the Main directly across from Frankfurt — and the Landkreis Offenbach, the district surrounding the city with towns such as Dietzenbach, Dreieich, Langen, Neu-Isenburg, Mühlheim, Obertshausen, Rodgau, and Rödermark. The sold circulation stands at 25,002 copies (IVW 2/2026, Monday to Saturday), a decline of 52.4 percent since 1998.

The paper is published by the Pressehaus Bintz-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, based in Offenbach. The publishers (Herausgeber) are Dirk Ippen and Thomas Bauer; the managing directors are Daniel Schöningh and Thomas Kühnlein; the editor-in-chief is Philipp Keßler. The paper's website is op-online.de, and the publishing group's portal is mediengruppe-op.de.

The publishing house's portfolio extends beyond the daily: the Pressehaus Bintz publishes the Hanau-Post and — until its title was retired on 30 December 2023 — the Langener Zeitung, which now appears as the Offenbach-Post's Langen local section. The house also publishes a large family of free advertising papers, including the Stadtpost titles for Offenbach, Heusenstamm, Dietzenbach, Dreieich, Langen/Egelsbach/Erzhausen, Mühlheim, Neu-Isenburg, and Rödermark, the Extra Tipp and RheinMain Extra Tipp titles, the Frankfurter Wochenblatt, and the Taunus Wochenblick — a free-paper network reaching hundreds of thousands of households across the Rhine-Main region.

History

The Offenbach-Post's publishing tradition begins in 1773 with the Offenbacher privilegiertes Real-, Frag- und Anzeigeblatt — the publishing house's founding year, which the Pressehaus Bintz still claims. The weekly grew into a daily under changing names through the 19th century; in 1870 the Offenbacher Zeitung was connected to a telegraphic news agency. After the Nazi seizure of power, the Frankfurter Parteiverlag bought the paper in 1939 to use it as a party organ.

The modern Offenbach-Post was founded on 3 June 1947 by Udo Bintz with a licence from the American military government — the eleventh daily newspaper authorized in Germany after the Second World War. The name was modeled on the Washington Post, in whose distribution area Bintz had relatives. The offices stood first on the Große Marktstraße in central Offenbach, with the printing works next door; somewhat later the OP merged with the OZ publishing house. Udo Bintz's son Peter Udo Bintz took over the management of the Pressehaus Bintz-Verlag in the early 1970s.

In the summer of 1974 the Ippen family, represented by Dirk Ippen, acquired the 50 percent stake held by the Dohany family in Offenbach; 40 percent remained with publisher Udo Bintz and 10 percent with publishing director Otto Eberitsch. Ippen already controlled the Westfälischer Anzeiger and other titles at the time. On 1 January 2005 Ippen took over the remaining 50 percent, making the Offenbach-Post fully part of the Ippen group. The publishing house moved from the Aliceplatz — its home since the early 1960s — to the Waldstraße on the city's edge in 1997 (printing) and 1998 (publishing house).

The paper's postwar history includes the Langener Zeitung's integration: absorbed into the Offenbach-Post media group in the late 1980s, published as an OP local edition from 28 November 1998, and finally retired as a separate masthead on 30 December 2023, continuing as the OP's Langen local section. From 2006 to February 2011 the OP gave its name to a stand at the Bieberer Berg stadium, home of Kickers Offenbach — a visible sign of the paper's identification with its city.

Coverage and Content

The Offenbach-Post's content covers the full range of a regional daily for the Rhine-Main's eastern flank: national and international news, federal and Hessian state politics, business, culture, and sport, combined with intensive local journalism for Offenbach city and the district. The local pages cover the Offenbach city council and the district council, the administrations of the district's towns, the local courts, police news, schools, churches, and the clubs and associations of the region.

The paper's territory gives its journalism a distinctive metropolitan-fringe profile. Offenbach — historically the leather-goods capital, today a diverse, densely built city in Frankfurt's shadow — generates constant local news: urban development, the creative industries of the former industrial quarters, integration and social policy in one of Germany's most diverse cities, and the fortunes of Kickers Offenbach, the traditional football club. The district towns — from the commuter suburbs of Dreieich and Neu-Isenburg to the district seat Dietzenbach — each receive their own local coverage through the paper's district newsrooms.

The paper also serves the traditional functions of the regional daily: comprehensive municipal reporting, family announcements, church news, club reports, and the court and police journalism that make the local paper the community's daily record. The free-paper portfolio — the Stadtpost titles and the Extra Tipp papers — extends the publishing house's reach into every household in the distribution area, carrying the advertising that finances the group's journalism.

Organization and Ownership

The Offenbach-Post is published by the Pressehaus Bintz-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, based in Offenbach am Main. The publishing house belongs to the Ippen media group (Ippen-Gruppe, 100 percent). The publishers are Dirk Ippen and Thomas Bauer; the managing directors are Daniel Schöningh and Thomas Kühnlein; the editor-in-chief is Philipp Keßler.

The publishing house's history — from the 1773 Anzeigeblatt through Udo Bintz's 1947 founding to the Ippen group's full ownership since 2005 — makes it one of the long-standing family-to-group transitions of the German regional press. The Bintz family's publishing tradition in Offenbach spans two and a half centuries; the Ippen group's ownership since 1974/2005 has integrated the house into one of Germany's significant regional publishing groups while preserving the Offenbach-Post masthead and the Offenbach newsroom.

The group's structure — the daily OP, the Hanau-Post, the former Langener Zeitung's local section, and the large free-paper portfolio — gives the publishing house a comprehensive presence in the eastern Rhine-Main region: paid daily journalism and free weekly reach, produced from the Waldstraße publishing house in Offenbach.

Digital Presence

The Offenbach-Post's digital home is op-online.de, the paper's news portal, which carries its regional and local reporting with continuous updates through the day. The portal serves as the platform for digital subscriptions and the e-paper edition, alongside the print subscription, and the publishing group's site mediengruppe-op.de presents the house's full portfolio.

The paper's digital strategy follows the established pattern of German regional publishers: subscription-based websites, e-paper, mobile apps, newsletters, and social media channels. For the OP, the digital channels carry the same Rhine-Main journalism as the print paper — the Offenbach council decisions, the district news, the Kickers reports — to readers who increasingly consume their news on screens, and they compete online with the Frankfurter Rundschau, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's regional pages, and the growing array of local digital initiatives.

In the Rhine-Main's crowded digital media environment, the OP's advantage remains its newsroom: the Offenbach journalists covering the city and district daily. The paper founded in 1947 as Germany's eleventh postwar daily — named for the Washington Post, rooted in a 1773 publishing tradition — now serves Offenbach and its district in print, e-paper, and online: the eastern Rhine-Main's daily paper in every medium.