German hour in Bavaria
The German Hour in Bavaria was a company that stocked the first radio program in Bavaria, and is thus a forerunner of Bavarian radio . The company was founded on September 12, 1922 in Munich .
The founders were the Munich businessmen Hermann Klöpfer, Josef Böhm and Robert Riemerschmid as well as the director of the German hour in Berlin Ernst Ludwig Voss . From a business point of view, the German hour in Bavaria was the regional subsidiary of the German hour . Society for wireless teaching and entertainment mbH based in Berlin .
On March 30, 1924, she ushered in the broadcasting age in Bavaria with the broadcast of her first program from the broadcasting hall in the Ministry of Transport on Arnulfstrasse . On August 2, 1924, the Nuremberg secondary station and on September 1, 1927 the Augsburg secondary station began operations. Secondary channels were used to distribute the program locally in areas far away from the main channel. On February 17, 1926, the first sports coverage took place, namely the ice hockey game SC Riessersee against the Berlin ice skating club. The Munich comedian Karl Valentin made his first radio appearance on April 1, 1927. In 1929 the station moved into a broadcasting house specially designed for him by Richard Riemerschmid . "Munich" broadcast on "Welle 485". Its first director was Kurt von Boeckmann . On December 15, 1930, the German hour was renamed Bayerische Rundfunk GmbH .
On April 15, 1933, Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels brought Boeckmann from Munich to Berlin to set up a propaganda program via shortwave. Boeckmann was the first director of the German shortwave transmitter with far-reaching tasks, including as head of the foreign department in the Reich broadcasting line. As part of the conformity with the National Socialists , Bayerische Rundfunk GmbH joined the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft in 1934, like all other broadcasters in the Reich . The Reichsender München belonged to the Großdeutscher Rundfunk . On July 10, 1936, the northernmost secondary transmitter started work: Bayreuth.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Program history of radio in the Weimar Republic , vol. 1. Ed. By DRA . dtv, Munich 1997. p. 26. ISBN 3-423-04702-X
- ↑ What is meant is the medium wave frequency with a wavelength of 485 m