Deutsche Welle GmbH
The German wave GmbH was a radio station . He was active from 1926 to 1933.
In August 1924, Deutsche Welle was founded by Ernst Ludwig Voss in Berlin and began broadcasting regularly on January 7, 1926. Initially, the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft owned 70% and the Free State of Prussia 30% . A long-wave transmitter in Königs Wusterhausen was used , which transmitted with 20 kW at 231 kHz and could be received throughout Germany (also known as Deutschlandsender I ).
The program initially consisted of specialist lectures every half hour between 3 and 8 pm and was broadcast under the name “Deutsche Welle”. From 8 p.m. until the end of broadcasting, as well as on Sundays and public holidays, selected programs should be taken over by regional broadcasters, mostly this was the Berlin radio hour , with “Deutschlandsender” being announced as the station ID.
From 1931, Deutsche Welle broadcast from the Berlin House of Broadcasting , and on January 1, 1933, Deutsche Welle GmbH was officially transferred to Deutschlandsender GmbH.
A “work report” by Hans Mersmann from March 1933, who had to defend himself against attacks as “head of the music department of Deutsche Welle and the Deutschlandsender”, is informative for the time of the fall of the Wall . Although the exact date and the addressee of the work report are unclear, the document provides information about the cultural and political situation of the time, in particular about tasks and forms of music programming. The National Socialist regime removed Mersmann from all offices in 1933.
literature
- Ulrich Heitger: From time signals to political means of leadership. Development tendencies and structures of radio news programs in the Weimar Republic 1923–1932. LIT-Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-6853-6
- Joachim-Felix Leonhard (Ed.): Program history of radio in the Weimar Republic . Volume 1. dtv, Munich 1997, pp. 123-134.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boring Germany - Review of Königs Wusterhausen. Retrieved December 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Hans Mersmann: Arbeitsbericht [1933] , 6 p. Typescript, archive.org