August Kruckow
August Carl Kruckow (born December 25, 1874 in Grevenbroich ; † September 23, 1939 ) was a German ministerial official.
Life
After training as a telecommunications engineer , he joined the Reich Telegraph Administration. On July 10, 1908, he became head of the first public telephone exchange in Germany, which was built and put into operation in cooperation with Siemens & Halske in Hildesheim .
In 1920 he rose as a post director to the president of the Telegraph Technology Reichsamt , the later Reichspostzentralamt. This was created by amalgamating several facilities of the Reichspost , which included the "Telegraphenversuchsamt", "Telegraphenapparateamt", "Telefonlinienbüro" and "Funkbetriebsamt". In 1928 the “Telegraph Technical Reichsamt” was renamed “Reichspostzentralamt”. In the “Reichspostzentralamt” the employees were also busy with research tasks, with the development and procurement of technical innovations and facilities for the postal, telegraph , telephone and radio systems being the focus of interest. In particular, Kruckow turned to the training of fully automatic telephone traffic.
Between 1928 and 1933 he was also a member and finally for a short time between January and March 1933 also chairman of the administrative board of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG).
In 1929 he was first made a ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Post . In 1932 he was appointed State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Post as the successor to Ernst Feyerabend, who had retired .
On February 15, 1933, he also succeeded Hans Bredow as Reich Broadcasting Commissioner. As early as March 22, 1933, due to the agreement between Reichspostminister Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach and Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, broadcasting was transferred from the area of responsibility of the Post Office to that of the Propaganda Ministry. Kruckow himself was given early retirement on the same day.
Publications
- The self-connection and dialer devices in telephone operations . Braunschweig, 1911
- Ernst Feyerabend , Hugo Heidecker, Franz Breisig , August Kruckow (eds.): Concise dictionary of electrical telecommunications . First volume: A – K; Second volume: L-Z; Springer, Berlin 1929
- Self-access telephone operation - as I experienced it . Berlin 1936
literature
- Gerhard Weinreich: In memory of the 75th anniversary of August Kruckow's death. A German telecommunications engineer (1874–1939) . In: The archive: Post and telecommunications history . H. 3 (2014), p. 65.
Web links
- August Kruckow in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
- History of communications technology from 1925 (Fernsehmuseum Wiesbaden)
- August Kruckow in: Data protection practice
Individual evidence
- ^ DGPT - German Society for Post and Telecommunication History e. V. (Anniversaries 07/10/2008) ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft mbH (RRG) (PDF; 198 kB)
- ↑ Die Radionauts: "Radio Stories: Time Travel and Excursions into the Berlin Radio Worlds" . 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2438-9 , p. 24
- ^ Konrad Dussel: German radio history . 2004, ISBN 3-8252-2573-9 , p. 84
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kruckow, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kruckow, August Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German radio pioneer and State Secretary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grevenbroich |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1939 |