Brunhilde Pomsel

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Brunhilde Pomsel (born January 11, 1911 in Berlin ; † January 27, 2017 in Munich ) was a German secretary who worked for Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels from 1942 to 1945 .

Life

Pomsel learned her trade from the Jewish lawyer Hugo Goldberg . When Goldberg emigrated in 1933, she got a job with the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG) as a secretary and stenographer with the support of Wulf Blei . At this time she also joined the NSDAP. She built a reputation as a reliable and fast stenographer.

In 1942 she got a job at the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Pomsel worked in the ministerial office of Joseph Goebbels until the end of the war in 1945. In the bombing of Berlin in 1943, she lost most of her belongings. In May 1945 she was arrested by Soviet troops in the cellar of the Propaganda Ministry and interned by the NKVD in the Buchenwald , Hohenschönhausen and Sachsenhausen special camps until 1950 .

Afterwards she worked again as a secretary for Südwestfunk (SWF) in Baden-Baden and for the ARD program directorate German television in Munich. In 1971, at the age of 60, she retired. Until her death, she lived in an old people's home in Munich- Schwabing .

reception

On April 18, 2016 Ein deutsches Leben , a documentary about Pomsel, had its world premiere at the Visions du Réel in Nyon and was shown soon after at the Munich Film Festival , the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Diagonale in Graz. The film was shot by the Austrian director Christian Krönes together with Olaf S. Müller, Roland Schrotthofer and Florian Weigensamer. It was released in cinemas on April 6, 2017.

The book accompanying the film by Thore D. Hansen A German Life: What the story of Goebbels' secretary teaches us for the present .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emily Langer: Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, dies at 106 . The Washington Post , January 29, 2017, accessed January 30, 2017.
  2. ^ Franziska von Mutius: I was the secretary of Joseph Goebbels. bild.de , August 23, 2011, accessed January 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ A German Life . Blackbox film and media production, 2016 (pdf; 1.8 MB).
  4. ^ Mourad Moussa: A German Life. In: Visions du Réel. Festival international de cinéma Nyon, April 2016, archived from the original on August 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2017 .
  5. ^ Festivals - A German Life. In: a-german-life.com. www.a-german-life.com, accessed January 31, 2017 (American English).
  6. ^ Munich Film Festival 2016, Brunhilde Pomsel: A German Life . YouTube , 4:16 min. Published on July 14, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017.
  7. ↑ Susanne Hermanski: "I couldn't offer any resistance, I'm too cowardly". Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 1, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017.
  8. ↑ Dominik Kamalzadeh: "A German Life": Memories of Goebbels' secretary. derStandard.at , April 18, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 . Brunhilde Pomsel - Goebbels secretary dies at the age of 106 . AFP report at T-online.de , January 30, 2017, accessed on January 30, 2017.
  9. ^ Goebbels secretary: Cinema documentary about Brunhilde Pomsel, who has now died. dpa report in the Badische Zeitung , January 31, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Pomsel, Brunhilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secretary and stenographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2017
Place of death Munich