The German broadcaster
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| description | National Socialist radio magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Newspaper for the general public |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Widder Verlag , Berlin (Germany) |
| First edition | 1930 |
| attitude | July 1936 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Editor-in-chief | Eberhard Moes |
| editor | Reich Association of German Broadcasters EV |
| ZDB | 548722-5 |
The German broadcaster was a National Socialist German magazine published weekly from 1930 to 1936 with the current radio program receivable in Germany. As an association organ of the Reich Association of German Broadcasting Participants EV (RDR) (chaired in 1932: Joseph Goebbels ), the magazine was initially supported by three right-wing groups, the German National People's Party , the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the Stahlhelm . "Der Deutsche Sender" was published by Widder-Verlag in Berlin , was available in free trade and was sent to association members for 1 RM . In the 12.1932 edition shown, Dr. Eberhard Moes , Ruth Führing responsible for the advertisements. The holdings of the German National Library include issues 1.1930 - 7.1936.23. Accordingly, “Der Deutsche Sender” went into “ NS-Funk ”, the magazine of the Reichsrundfunkkammer .
history
The Reich Association of German Broadcasting Participants (RDR) together with its association organ "Der Deutsche Sender" was founded in 1930 by right-wing forces in the Weimar Republic to "oppose the socialist and communist radio organizations with an at least equally strong national organization". According to its own statements, the association recorded a doubling of the number of members "within the last few months" and in March 1932 had almost 100,000 members.
During the election campaign for the Reichstag elections in July 1932 , the magazine drew the picture in its editorial section of a German radio landscape with a “Marxist-Jewish” character, which banned everything “German national” from its broadcasts. In February 1932, “Der Deutsche Sender” condemned the broadcasting of the speeches by Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and Reich President Paul von Hindenburg as a use of “political power”: “All German broadcasters were blocked for three quarters of an hour on two evenings for this matter. Anyone who could fled abroad ”(leading article by Goetz Otto Stoffregen , ibid).
On November 2, 1932, three months before Hitler came to power , “the chairman of the RDR, Dr. Goebbels ”in the“ Deutsches Sender ”the bundling of National Socialist radio activities:“ In a National Socialist Reich Association of German Radio Participants, we do not need a National Socialist group [and their propaganda leaflet Deutsch der Rundfunk! ] more. ”In the short, pragmatic text, the later Propaganda Minister outlines what he will implement a few months later:“ The National Socialist idea […] should penetrate and completely penetrate the German people. To this end, radio is one of the most important weapons for us today, because it accompanies and guides our national comrades from morning to night [...]. "Goebbels concludes with the words: When the goal is achieved," we will become the world's new age with this revolutionary weapon prove what the German spirit and will can do. "
After Hitler came to power in January 1933, “Der Deutsche Sender” gave itself the additional title “Die Funkzeitschrift des Third Reich” on the cover. The inflammatory polemical tone of March 1932 ("We stand there with clenched teeth and wait for our time! It's not far away ...") continued in February 1933 with issue 9: "... you will see that it is also among the Broadcasting directors still have to clean up. "
Propagandist criticism
The radio review is called “Funk-Pranger” in the magazine and takes up several pages per issue. With the takeover of power, this section becomes the echo of the German waves - critical weekly review . One of the most famous programs of the time was the Funk-Hour Berlin . "Der Deutsche Sender" regularly deals with this series of programs and presents it e.g. B. in its edition 9.1933 in contrast to the program of the Deutschlandsender :
"When there is time for the necessary cleansing after the elections, one will also have to deal with Prof. Schubotz , the head of the Reichsender, who, as is well known, not only refused, the thanksgiving service for Adolf Hitler and the funeral for the fallen SA -Mann Maikowski , but who bears full responsibility for the fact that a report from Adolf Hitler's flight to Munich was canceled by the German broadcaster, while the Berlin radio hour naturally passed this report on to the listeners. In general, the Berliner Funkstunde today under its deputy director Richard Kolb is exemplary for the programming of radio programs in Germany of national renewal. We only refer to the current lectures this week and the coming week, in which the contemporary historical problems of Germany and the historical mission of Adolf Hitler and the other leaders of the Reich government are dealt with. The socialist radio broadcasts maliciously insulted Kolb. This proves that Kolb is on the right path to lead radio up to its trend-setting tasks in national Germany. "
literature
Thomas Bauer: Deutsche Programmpresse 1923 to 1941. Origin, development and continuity of the radio magazines. Saur, Munich et al. 1993, ( Rundfunkstudien. Volume 6), ISBN 3-598-21575-4 .