Annamarie Doherr

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Annamarie Doherr as a correspondent at the trial of Hans Globke in East Berlin (1963).

Annamarie Doherr (born January 23, 1909 in Wandsbek ; † December 13, 1974 in West Berlin ) was a German journalist .

Life

Annamarie Doherr was the daughter of a small businessman. The mother was a housewife. The parents separated after the daughter left the house. In 1929 she passed her Abitur at the German High School for Girls on the Lübeckertorfeld in Hamburg. Doherr began studying law at the University of Hamburg in 1929 , where she specialized in international law. In 1933 she finished her studies without a degree and became a research assistant with Professor Albrecht Mendelssohn-Bartholdy . Mendelssohn-Bartholdy had after the seizure of power by the Nazis to London emigrate. With the elimination of the doctoral supervisor, the plan to do a doctorate failed and she left after the winter semester 1933/34 as a research assistant. From 1934 to the winter semester of 1935/36 she worked as a trainee at the Institute for Foreign Policy and then moved to the Hamburg World Economic Archive .

Annamarie Doherr was involved in the women's movement. In 1929 she joined the Hamburger Studentinnenverein, a member association of the Association of Female Student Associations , and was elected to the board of the Federation of Hamburg Women's Associations in 1930/31 . Politically, she represented liberal positions and was close to the German State Party .

From 1929 (and until November 1933) she wrote for the magazine Die Frau . During the time of National Socialism she published in Die Tat , Deutsche Zukunft , Die Hilfe and Der Ring . In 1942 she moved to Berlin, where she became editor of the Wirtschafts-Ring . After the magazine was discontinued, she was editor at the Transocean -Europapress-Zentralredaktion from April 1943 . In this role she worked for Nazi propaganda .

After the end of the Second World War , she worked for the Berlin radio from August 1945 . At the end of 1946 she became head of the “Zeitecho” editorial team. She later became deputy head of department and editor-in-chief for "Daily Issues". Just as it had spread the Nazi propaganda, it was now in the service of agitprop .

In 1949 she left the Berliner Rundfunk and became West Berlin correspondent for the Frankfurter Rundschau , for which she worked for more than 20 years. She became famous when she provoked a statement from Walter Ulbricht about the planned construction of the Berlin Wall at an international press conference on June 15, 1961 .

She tried to achieve German-Polish reconciliation in various associations and was involved in the Society of German-Austrian Women Artists ( GEDOK ), of which she was the second chairwoman of the main board.

She died of a heart attack in West Berlin at the age of 65 and is buried at the side of her partner, the artist Lizzie Hosaeus , in the St. Anne's churchyard .

Documentation of the question to Walter Ulbricht

Annamarie Doherr:

I would like to ask a supplementary question. Doherr, Frankfurter Rundschau. Mr. Chairman, in your opinion, does the formation of a free city mean that the state border will be built at the Brandenburg Gate? And are you determined to take this fact into account with all the consequences?

Walter Ulbricht:

I understand your question to mean that there are people in West Germany who want us to mobilize the construction workers of the GDR's capital to erect a wall, yes? Um, I do not know that there is such an intention, as the construction workers in the capital are mainly engaged in housing construction and their manpower is used to the full for this purpose. Nobody has the intention to build a wall.

Transcribed from a recording by the SFB, published on O-Ton Berlin (CD 2, Track 20).

Honors

literature

  • Walter-Wilhelm Busam: Annamarie Doherr: a great German journalist, 1909–1974 , lecture, given on February 4, 1975 in the Berlin press center on the occasion of the Tuesday round of GEDOK Berlin
  • Volker Rapsch : Highlights of a career. Notes on the career of journalist Annamarie Doherr. Frankfurt (Main): RG Fischer, 1984. ISBN 3-88323-506-7
  • Original sound Berlin. Cold war in the ether. CD edition. Edited by Marianne Weil . Without a date.
  • Karl-Heinz Baum: “Nobody intends to build a wall” . A memory. Frankfurter Rundschau , December 13, 2014, p. 24 f.

Web links

Commons : Annamarie Doherr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 16, 1974, p. 4, Annamarie Doherr died
  2. Frankfurter Rundschau, Dec. 12, 2014
  3. Video "Nobody intends to build a wall" , youtube