Der Volksfreund

For other uses, see Der Volksfreund (disambiguation).

Der Volksfreund (the People's Friend) was a German language newspaper published in Buffalo, New York, from 1838 to 1943. Its editorial tendencies were Roman Catholic and Democratic. The paper flourished chiefly during the last decade of the 19th century until World War I under its publisher Matthias Rohr. Originally a gymnasium professor of modern languages in the Rhenish Palatinate in Germany, Rohr emigrated to the United States and was active as a publisher and insurance agent.

The paper is still being published bilingually in Buffalo, N.Y., as of 2008. Burt Erickson Nelson, its publisher since reviving the paper in 1982, died at age 81 in 2009 and it was expected the edition he produced just before his death would be the paper's last.