The Wiesbadener Kurier (WK) has been published since October 2, 1945 and was the seventh daily newspaper licensed by the Americans in the new federal state of Greater Hesse. Its first publishers were Fritz Otto Ulm and Georg Alfred Mayer. Both were politically untainted. On October 1, 1945, the American Colonel James R. Newman delivered the news that Wiesbaden would be the seat of the state government of the new federal state along with the license for the Wiesbadener Kurier. This was the spectacular lead story of the first issue of the Wiesbadener Kurier.

After years of hardship during the Weimar Republic and the "Third Reich", Wiesbaden's designation as the state capital enabled the city's economic recovery in the years that followed. For Wiesbaden, it was the return to a democratic press system for which the Germans themselves were responsible. Prior to the publication of the Kurier, the Americans had published the "Mitteilungen für den Stadtkreis Wiesbaden" from June 1945 onwards, which continued to exist until 1948.

The Kurier's publishing house, editorial office and print shop are located in the former building of the Wiesbadener Tagblatt (WT), the Pressehaus, which was rented by order of the Americans in the fall of 1945. In 1945, the WT was banned like all newspapers from the time of the "Third Reich". It was only allowed to appear again in 1949 after the license requirement was lifted. In the battle for market share after 1949, the Kurier was not harmed by the problems it had caused by publishing the names of all Wiesbaden NSDAP members. The Americans had ordered a corresponding supplement with the names. This led to a lawsuit, which the Kurier's publisher won. In the early post-war period, the Wiesbadener Kurier was subject to American censorship.

In the first few months of its publication, it contributed significantly to the "re-education" of the population in its circulation area. In addition to Wiesbaden, this soon included the Rheingau and the Lower Taunus. It published detailed reports on the most important representatives of the "Third Reich" and their crimes. A temporary Germany edition (1946) of the Kurier was discontinued in 1948.

In 1965, the Wiesbadener Kurier lost its independence and became part of the Mainzer Verlagsanstalt (MVA), which has since been renamed Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main (VRM). In 1976, it was printed for the last time in the Pressehaus, then in the MVA printing plant in Mainz-Mombach. In the fall of 2010, the new printing plant in Rüsselsheim went into operation, together with the publishing house of the "Darmstädter Echo". The Rhein Main publishing group, based in Mainz, produces a total of 26 daily newspapers, the largest of which are the "Mainzer Allgemeine" and the Wiesbadener Kurier.

The Kurier has also been available online since 2000 and videos have also been available there since 2008, ranging from local news to Hesse and Germany topics to world events. In 2010, the Wiesbadener Kurier had a paid circulation of around 50,000. The Wiesbadener Tagblatt and Wiesbadener Kurier are currently published in identical versions, apart from the title head. The circulation figures are also no longer shown separately.

Always in the thick of it. 100 years of Pressehaus Wiesbaden. Edited by: Schröder, Stefan/Gerber, Manfred, Frankfurt 2009.