Adolf Dresler

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Adolf Dresler (born May 18, 1898 in Kiel ; † September 28, 1971 in Fischhausen-Neuhaus ) was a German media scientist , writer and functionary during the National Socialist era .

biography

Adolf Dresler joined the NSDAP in 1921 . From the winter semester 1924/1925 he studied newspaper science at the University of Munich with Karl d'Ester (1881-1960). His interest was in the political and cultural development in Italy. In 1924 he published the first German Mussolini biography . In 1929, the work The Political Futurism followed as a forerunner of Italian fascism . In 1934 Dresler was with his work history of the Italian press from 1900 to 1922 to the Dr. phil is doing his doctorate . For this work he received from Mussolini the award of a Cavaliere della Corona d´Italia . His contribution The Press as Judas' Means of Power was published in 1930 and 1938 by Mussolini as a journalist and German art and degenerate "art": work of art and caricature as a mirror of worldview . He was considered an excellent expert on the Italian press and especially the Italian fascist press.

Adolf Dresler had been a permanent employee of the Völkischer Beobachter since 1925 and was responsible for the press office of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP in the Brown House in Munich since 1931 . From 1935 he advanced to the position of Reich Main Office Manager. During this time, Dresler published Nazi propaganda writings under the pseudonym Anton Meister. He was one of the important authors in the initial phase of the National Socialist monthly issue . From 1933 Dresler was a member of the Presidential Council of the Reich Press Chamber . In addition, Dresler worked as a lecturer at the Newspaper Institute of the University of Munich and was a senior lecturer at the Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature .

Dresler was the editor of "Die Oase. Feldzeitung . German Africa Corps " for Erwin Rommel's National Socialist campaign , which appeared for a propaganda company from 1941 to 1942 .

After the end of the Second World War , Dresler lived in Munich. He was a regular author of the Börsenblatt for the German book trade , where he wrote on historical topics.

Several of his writings were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet zone of occupation and in the German Democratic Republic .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Nekrolog 1971–1998, p. 121
  2. ^ Michael Meyen , Eighty Years of Newspaper and Communication Studies in Munich , Herbert von Halem Verlag 2004, p. 35.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Müsse, Die Reichspresseschule: Journalists for the dictatorship? : a contribution to the history of journalism in the Third Reich , Saur Verlag 1995, p. 225.
  4. ^ Josef Wulf, Press and Funk in the Third Reich , Mohn Verlag 1964, p. 134
  5. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 107f.
  6. ^ Hans Adolf Jacobsen, National Socialist Foreign Policy, 1933-1938 , A. Metzner 1968, p. 54.
  7. ↑ Tobias Eberwein and Daniel Müller, Journalism and Public , VS Verlag 2010, p. 496.
  8. ^ Wilfried Scharf: National Socialist monthly books (1930-1944) In: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (Hrsg.): German magazines of the 17th to 20th century. Pullach near Munich 1973, p. 413.
  9. ↑ Maurizio Bach and Stefan Breuer, Fascism as Movement and Regime: Italy and Germany in Comparison. , VS Verlag 2010, p. 184.
  10. ^ Dresler: A German field newspaper in Africa: The Oasis. In "Afrika-Nachrichten", Vol. 22, 1942, H. 5, P. 74f.
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Duchkowitsch, Fritz Hausjell, Bernd Semrad, Die Spirale des Schweigens: on dealing with National Socialist newspaper science . LIT, Münster 2004, p. 108
  12. ↑ 1946 and 1946 and 1953
personal data
SURNAME Dresler, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1971
Place of death Fischhausen-Neuhaus