Dietrich W. Dreyer

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Dietrich W. Dreyer ( April 2, 1887 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ; † February 18, 1961 in Bremen ) was a German engineer and film producer .

Life

Born in a small town during the German Empire , Dietrich W. Dreyer worked as an engine keeper and ship engineer for the shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd from 1906 and with interruptions until 1920 . From 1911 to 1914 he studied mechanical engineering at the technical college in Bremen . Dreyer served in the Imperial Navy during the First World War .

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Dreyer first found work as a trade teacher , first in Bremerhaven , then in Hanover . There he met the film producer and operator of the Hanoverian Society for Cinematography , Friedrich Döring , at the company later named Döring-Film , Dreyer shot the film With Schnellzug und Ozeandampfer von Berlin via Bremen on behalf of his former employer, Norddeutscher Lloyd, in 1920 New York , "the first of a total of 12 major ship travel films ." At the same time, Dreyer set up a lecture organization to distribute popular science films and to explain the scenes shown in the silent films by speakers .

With the end of the German hyperinflation Dreyer 1923 resigned as shareholders and at the same time as technical director in this now into a GmbH converted movie Döring one.

Due to the great importance of the United States of America in the global economy in the 1920s and in particular due to the importance of the further expanded North Atlantic route of the North German Lloyd, Dreyer made several films about (North) America .

In 1929, on the occasion of the launch of the Bremen , Dreyer made a documentary about "[...] the Queen of the Seas" by North German Lloyd ;
Photograph of the express steamer by Georg Pahl

Dreyer shot his film Bremen - The Queen of the Seas on the occasion of the highly acclaimed and spectacular launch of the modern express steamer Bremen , which was put into service in 1929 . Dreyer himself commented on the world premiere in the Hanoverian Palast Theater that same year . His documentary was made in different periods, from the "construction and launching of the Bremen IV" to the "maiden voyage of the luxury liner, embarkation, life and luxury on board [until] the arrival in New York."

In the seizure of power by the Nazis Dietrich W. Dreyer created against great odds - he was not a member of the Nazi party became - "his Germany Film " The creative and beautiful Germany ; a film that is compared with Wilfried Basse's documentary Germany between yesterday and today .

Before his business partner Friedrich Döring became, among other things, chairman of the Association of German Culture, Educational and Advertising Film Manufacturers ("Lehrfilmbund") affiliated to the Reichsfilmkammer and moved Döring-Film to Berlin , Dreyer separated from the company. Nevertheless, he made numerous films as "Oberingenieur Dietrich W. Dreyer" at the address Berlin-Dahlem both during the Third Reich and after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany , most recently in 1956 as a producer of the short documentary Future Rich Weser .

Others

Dietrich W. Dreyer had a son, Marine Artillery Corporal Dietrich Dreyer (* July 6, 1920; † / missing from May 27, 1941 on the battleship Bismarck ) In the same year his father wrote from Berlin-Dahlem, Meisenstrasse 3 , on December 14, 1941 handwritten a letter of condolence to the dear Dr. Kissel :

"The heroic death of your son awakens my deepest sympathy ... At the same age, my only boy fell as a PK film reporter on the battleship 'Bismarck' ..."

Filmography (incomplete)

  • 1920: By express train and ocean liner from Berlin via Bremen to New York
  • 1928: Canada - The land of one's own plaice , screenplay : Dreyer; Director : Karl Kindl , manufacturer: Döring-Film Werke GmbH
  • 1929: Bremen - The Queen of the Seas
  • 1933:
    • The creative and beautiful Germany
    • Obering. Dreyer's road trip through the American national parks
    • Haunted people seek relaxation
  • 1935: today's economy
  • 1936/1937: The Contax from Zeiß-Ikon AG
  • 1937:
    • German inventor
    • Silver blessing of the sea
  • 1938:
    • A car is born
    • Automobiles, how they are built and what they do
  • 1946: We discover America
  • 1950/1951:
    • Grooved at sea - salted at sea
    • Herring fishing on the high seas
  • 1950–1952: World tour with Obering. Dreyer
  • 1956: The promising Weser

literature

  • Irmgard Wilharm: The Döring-Film, chief engineer Dreyer and the ocean liners , in Susanne Höbermann, Pamela Müller (editor), Cornelia Groterjahn, Anne Pohl, Christine Schwarz (collaborator): Wir Wunderkinder. 100 years of film production in Lower Saxony , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Historical Museum Hanover from October 15, 1995 to January 14, 1996, ed. by the Society for Film Studies in cooperation with the Historisches Museum Hannover, Hannover: [1995?], pp. 35–48
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : DREYER, (1) Dietrich W. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 99; online through google books
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Dreyer, Dietrich W. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 137.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Waldemar R. Röhrbein: DREYER, (1) ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Compare the information under GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein: DÖRING, Friedrich. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 96f .; online through google books
  4. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, the company name Döring-Film is mentioned in the articles about Dietrich W. Dreyer in both the Hannoversche Biographisches Lexikon and the Stadtlexikon Hannover as early as 1920 .
  5. ↑ See Filmische Bremensien in the documentation of the Landesinstitut für Schule (Bremen) : Bremen - Structural change of an industrial region. Film reports about shipyards, ships and the AG Weser. A selection of media for the April 2010 photo exhibition , downloadable ( memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as a PDF document , last accessed on July 21, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lis.bremen.de
  6. ↑ Compare the information on filmportal.de (see under the section Weblinks )
  7. ↑ a b c DREYER, Dietrich W. Illustration and brief description of a lot on the internet auction platform lot-tissmo.com , last accessed on July 21, 2014
  8. ↑ We remind you: Last name Dreyer / first name Dietrich  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , recorded in the am Marine Memorial / Memorial Book in the Baltic Sea resort of Laboe according to the site weltkriegsopfer.de , last accessed on July 21, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.weltkriegsopfer.de  
  9. ↑ Information according to imdb.de
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h Information on the first page about Dreyer on the filmportal.de page , last accessed on July 21, 2014
  11. ↑ a b c d e Information on the second page about Dreyer on the filmportal.de page , last accessed on July 21, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Dreyer, Dietrich W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine engineer and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterholz-Scharmbeck
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1961
Place of death Bremen