German press service

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Deutscher Pressedienst (dpd) was the name of a news agency founded by the British occupying forces in their zone of occupation after the Second World War .

history

The founding father was the British journalist Sefton Delmer , who shortly after the World War had received the order to set up the first news agency in the British zone with a staff of editors and archivists who had been deployed from London to Hamburg. However, since German journalists were considered to be particularly stressed, he recruited 63 former employees of the naval intelligence service in Flensburg - Mürwik , where the last Reich government had been at the end of the war , as they were also familiar with collecting and distributing news. Among the recruited German officers and NCOs, radio operators and teleprinters , interpreters , mathematicians, physicists and intelligence assistants were also the sea captain Max Kupfer and Heinrich Böx . In August 1945 the recruited employees moved to Hamburg, where with their help the German News Service (GNS), Germany's first news agency, was set up in a requisitioned villa on Rothenbaumchaussee .

From August to December 1945, the GNS messages compiled in Hamburg were transmitted to London via a telex line and from there they were broadcast to the newspapers in the British occupation zone, which had been approved since July 1945. The news material on the first GNS broadcast day consisted of seven messages. From December 1945 the office was given the official name ("No. 10 German News Service British Zone" (GNS-BZ)) and the name "dpd" (German Press Service).

On January 1, 1947, the Deutsche Presse-Dienst GmbH (dpd) was founded as the successor to the GNS , with Wilhelm Tranow , previously head of the dpd finance department, and the business editor Dr. Wilhelm Grotkopp were ordered. On May 30, 1947, the dpd was converted into a cooperative, whose members were the 48 newspapers of the British zone of occupation that had been licensed up to that point . Anton Betz became the chairman of the board, and Fritz Sänger was the first editor-in-chief and managing director . Brigitte Krüger went to London in October 1947 as the first foreign correspondent for the dpd .

The dpd went on August 18, 1949 (together with the DENA ( US zone of occupation ) and the Süda ( French zone of occupation )) in the German press agency ( dpa ).

literature

  • dpa reports ... - 50 years of the German Press Agency GmbH , Hamburg 1999
  • 40 years of dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH , Hamburg 1989
  • journalist - the German media magazine - special edition 40 years DJV
  • K. Schottenloher / J. Binkowski: Flyer and newspaper , 2 volumes, Berlin 1922 (Reprint: Munich 1985)
  • Sefton Delmer: The Germans and me . Nannen-Verlag, Hamburg 1962, chapter 56. Mea Culpa, p. 637–659 (English: Trail Sinister (1961) / Black Boomerang (1962) . Martin Secker & Warburg, London. Translated by Gerda v. Uslar (authorized translation)).
  • 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 (=  public and history . Volume 5 ). Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86962-055-8 (dissertation, Institute for Journalism, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Technical University of Dortmund, 2011).
  • Andreas Kristionat: From the German News Service (GNS) to the German Press Agency (dpa) . In: Jürgen Wilke (Hrsg.): Telegraph offices and news agencies in Germany . Investigations into their history up to 1949 (=  communication and politics . Volume 24 ). KG Saur Verlag, Munich New York London Paris 1991, ISBN 3-598-20554-6 , pp. 267-302 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sefton Delmer: The Germans and I . Nannen-Verlag, Hamburg 1962, p. 653–654 (English: Trail Sinister (1961) / Black Boomerang (1962) . Martin Secker & Warburg, London. Translated by Gerda v. Uslar (authorized translation)).
  2. ↑ Tim Tolsdorff: New career for the code breaker . In: Spiegel Online EINESTAGES . November 26, 2010 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 26, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Andreas Kristionat: From the German News Service (GNS) to the German Press Agency (dpa) . In: Jürgen Wilke (Hrsg.): Telegraph offices and news agencies in Germany . Investigations into their history up to 1949 (=  communication and politics . Volume 24 ). KG Saur Verlag, Munich New York London Paris 1991, ISBN 3-598-20554-6 , pp. 295 .
  4. ↑ Andreas Kristionat: From the German News Service (GNS) to the German Press Agency (dpa) . In: Jürgen Wilke (Hrsg.): Telegraph offices and news agencies in Germany . Investigations into their history up to 1949 (=  communication and politics . Volume 24 ). KG Saur Verlag, Munich New York London Paris 1991, ISBN 3-598-20554-6 , pp. 298 .