The words are an allusion to the black figures, which the business newspaper from Hamburg did not write. According to SDA, the issue brought together a selection of the best research, portraits and caricatures. In the editorial, the editors-in-chief said that they wanted to show once again what they had and still had to offer. The FTD accompanied its own demise with the same irony throughout the issue. According to the SDA, the pages were not numbered consecutively, but the reader was continuously informed that the newspaper was coming to an end: The first page, for example, reads "42 to go".

According to SDA, the last issue sold out quickly at many newsstands on Friday. The website is expected to remain online until the end of the year. Unless certain interpretations of the Mayan calendar are correct, in which case just under two weeks remain. (uma)

A short time later, the publishing group Gruner + Jahr (G+J) itself confirmed the definitive end of the German business magazine. G+J also announced on Friday that the traditional magazine Capital is to be continued from Berlin. The other two sister publications Impulse and Börse Online are being examined to see whether they can be sold or whether they can be continued through a management buy-out, i.e. a takeover by managers within the publishing house. If the talks do not come to a successful conclusion, G+J plans to discontinue these two business magazines as well. A total of 314 employees of the various publications are affected by the announced measures.

According to works council member Rademaker, an additional 50 jobs in non-editorial departments at G+J are at risk, for example in the computer department. Rademaker, the employee representative, has accused the management of the publishing house of failing to deal with the employees since the first rumors of a closure emerged: "We only found out about everything from the press," she said.

On Wednesday, the Board of Directors discussed the future of G+J Wirtschaftsblätter. The controllers authorized the Executive Board to "carry out a sale, partial closure or closure of G+J Wirtschaftsmedien", according to a spokesperson for the publishing house. However, according to the publisher, a sale of the newspaper did not materialize.

FTD employees wore salmon-colored mourning ribbons on their lapels on Friday. The second page of Friday's edition of the newspaper is filled with solidarity letters from readers. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Gruner + Jahr has budgeted around 40 million euros for severance payments. (SDA)