Brigitte Kruger

Brigitte Krüger (* 1913 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † 1974 in Bonn ) was Germany's first foreign correspondent after the Second World War in 1947.

Krüger studied at the interpreting institute of Heidelberg University until 1939 . In 1946 she joined the British German News Service , in 1947 the German Press Service (dpd), which was also founded by the British occupation government and based in Düsseldorf , which was transferred to the German Press Agency (dpa) in 1949 . During this time she was also the Daily Telegraph correspondent for the British-occupied Ruhr area. Brigitte Krüger, who had spent several years in Oxford as a child educator in the house of the constitutional lawyer and legal historian Carleton Kemp Allen , the rector of Rhodes House , was sent to London in October 1947 as the first German foreign correspondent after the Second World War, where she called her “wonder animal “Was passed around. "Here she became, as an English description of her actual achievement described it, 'actually the first German consul' after the war ( Fritz Singer )." It was a special honor that the Foreign Press Association, founded in 1888, received one so soon after the war Took Germans into their ranks. After marrying the German diplomat Ulrich Lebsanft , she left the dpa in 1951.

literature

• CK Allen (Ed.): The First Fifty Years of the Rhodes Trust and the Rhodes Scholarships, 1903-1953. Oxford 1955
• Marc Jan Eumann: The German Press Service. News agency in the British zone 1945–1949. The history of a media institution in post-war Germany. Cologne 2011.
• Margarete Gärtner: Ambassador of goodwill: Foreign policy work 1914–1950. Bonn 1955.
• Hansjoachim Höhne: The story of the message and its spreaders, Baden-Baden 1977.
• Fritz Singer: Hidden threads. Memories and remarks from a journalist. Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1978, ISBN 3-87831-267-9 .
• Kurt Koszyk: Press Policy for Germans 1945 - 1949. Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7678-0663-0 (History of the German Press, Part 4.)
• Socialist communications from the SPD's London Representation, 1939–1948.
• Krüger-Depesche , Der Spiegel, No. 43 of October 25, 1947