Karl Brammer

Karl Brammer (born July 11, 1891 in Hanover , † April 17, 1964 in West Berlin ) was a German journalist.

Life

Brammer graduated from the Technical University of Hanover and began to work as a volunteer at the "Hannoversche Tageblatt" in 1912. A little later he also worked there as an editor. In 1914 he became the editor of the feature pages of the “Hagener Zeitung”, before being drafted a little later to fight in the First World War . Until the end of the war in 1918 he took part in the First World War and after it ended he went to Berlin, where he worked as a consultant in the newly formed press department of the Reich government until 1926. He reported, among other things, as a speaker on the referendums in Upper Silesia and East Prussia. At that time he joined the German Democratic Party .

journalism

From 1926 Brammer was head of the Democratic Newspaper Service, which was discontinued with the onset of National Socialism in 1933. During this time Brammer stayed afloat as a newspaper employee. From 1945 he was deputy editor-in-chief of the “ Neue Zeit ”, a CDU newspaper in East Berlin . After the communist synchronization of the newspaper, he left it and went to West Berlin , where he started in 1948 with the West Berlin “Tag”. He was also the Berlin representative of the New York State Newspaper and Herald . From 1950 to 1959 Brammer headed the press office at the Federal Ministry for All-German Issues in Berlin.

Late years

Brammer joined the CDU in 1945 and was the first chairman of the Berlin regional association. He was also chairman from 1949 to 1958, then an honorary member of the Berlin Press Association and was elected as the first assessor on the board of this association when the German Association of Journalists was founded in 1949 . In 1959 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit for his life's work .

Fonts

• The Face of Reaction (1919)
• Five days of military dictatorship (1920)
• Constitutional basis and high treason (1921)
• Rathenau Trial (1923)
• That's how they lived! 700 billion Hitler debt (1946)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Brammer in the catalog of the German National Library

literature

• Karl Brammer , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/1955 of December 12, 1955, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 413