Dorothea Federschmidt

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Dorothea "Dora" Federschmidt (* 1903 in St. Ingbert , † 1984 in Munich ) was a German journalist and head of the feature pages of the Münchner Abendzeitung .

Career

Federschmidt started in 1922 at Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten as the secretary of Fritz Gerlich , the then editor-in-chief of the MNN , and later became an editor in the newspaper's features section. Shortly after Hitler came to power , Federschmidt was imprisoned as part of the journalistic resistance against the National Socialists and was banned from working. Richard Wendler of the Bavarian Political Police claimed that Federschmidt, together with Gerlich, Aretin , Cossmann , Guttenberg , Tschuppik , Betz , etc. a. Preparations for the violent implementation of a "South German separatist mainline policy with the ultimate purpose of separating Bavaria from the Reich and connecting to Austria ... or making Bavaria independent under French protection", for which the monarchy was to be proclaimed on February 21, 1933. According to Aretin, then head of internal affairs at the MNN , Federschmidt's colleagues found their arrest particularly tragic, as Federschmidt had never been politically exposed. She was only arrested through an intrigue by the wife of the Nazi commissioner Leo Hausleiter . Unsuccessfully tried Gerlich's successor Fritz Buchner , Paul Reusch as spring Schmidt's winning advocate. The Reichsverband der Deutschen Presse introduced Dora Federschmidt with the keyword “professional task”. In 1935, Federschmidt got a job at Franckh'schen Verlagshandlung in Stuttgart, where Büchner first worked as a lecturer and then as a publishing director. After the end of the Nazi dictatorship , Federschmidt was the first woman ever to work in the editorial office of the Münchner Abendzeitung from 1948 , where she was responsible for the features section until 1963. Her companions at AZ included Sigi Sommer , Hans R. Beierlein , Hannes Obermaier , Werner Meyer , Karl Stankiewitz and Ponkie .

Federschmidt is buried in the Schwabing North Cemetery.

reception

Ponkie described Federschmidt as "looking like an old Indian" journalist who had "made a wonderful feature section". For Karl Stankiewitz , Federschmidt was the “dormant pole in the gears” of the evening paper , which, as the “grande dame” and good friend of Annette Kolb , always insisted on being addressed as “ Fräulein ” even at an advanced age . For Anneliese Friedmann , Federschmidt shaped the evening newspaper's feature pages well beyond her departure from the editorial office. Michael Graeter found the feature section of the evening newspaper under Federschmidt "so brilliant that even the ' Frankfurter Allgemeine ' had to constantly follow suit on its cultural pages". “The fact that Der Spiegel received 65 AZ subscriptions at that time ” had for Alfons Schweiggert “nothing to do with the increasing success of FC Bayern , but more to do with the legendary pens of the AZ feuilleton under Dorothea Federschmidt”.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Journalism of the Free University of Berlin : Die Deutsche Presse: Newspapers and magazines. Duncker & Humblot 1961, p. 115, ( limited preview ).
  2. ↑ Rudolf Morsey : Fritz Gerlich (1883-1934): An early opponent of Hitler and National Socialism. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh Paderborn 2017, ISBN 9783657783984 , pp. 137, 146f, 154, 194, ( limited preview ).
  3. ^ Walter Flemmer : Interview with Hans F. Nöhbauer . In: BR-alpha . October 28, 2004.
  4. ^ Max Spindler , Dieter Albrecht : The New Bavaria: 1800-1970. Volume 4 of Handbuch der Bayerischen Geschichte. Beck Verlag 1975 ISBN 9783406014642 , p. 1161, ( limited preview ).
  5. ↑ Maria Theodora von dem Bottlenberg-Landsberg: Die Weisse Blätter : a conservative magazine in and against National Socialism. Lukas Verlag Berlin 2012 ISBN 9783867321020 , p. 10, ( limited preview ).
  6. ^ Erwein von Aretin : Crown and chains: memories of a Bavarian nobleman. Süddeutscher Verlag Munich 1955. DNB 450135691
  7. ↑ Peter Langer: Paul Reusch and the synchronization of the "Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten" 1933. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Volume 53 (2005), Issue 2. S. 229.
  8. ↑ Employee and subject index of the German press. Reich Association of the German Press . 1935, ( limited preview ).
  9. ^ Eva Zimmer: Wall pictures for school practice: A historical-critical analysis of the wall picture production of the Schulmann publishing house 1925–1987. Verlag Julius Klinkhardt Leipzig 2017 ISBN 9783781521971 , p. 122, ( limited preview ).
  10. ^ Paul Hoser: Evening newspaper. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . 17th October 2019.
  11. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries. BUCH & media, 2016, ISBN 9783869069111 , p. 181, ( limited preview ).
  12. ↑ Anna Bianca Krause, Waltraud Schwab: "Unfortunately, stupidity is not punishable". In: taz . June 14, 2014.
  13. ^ Karl Stankiewitz : When the knives flew in the evening newspaper. In: evening newspaper . January 3, 2018.
  14. ↑ Anneliese Friedmann : The right formula for the future. ( Memento from February 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Abendzeitung .
  15. ↑ Michael Graeter : The exterminator of the nation. In: evening newspaper . September 8, 2009.
  16. ^ Alfons Schweiggert , Hannes S. Macher: Authors in Bavaria: 20th century. Verlags-Anstalt Bayerland 2004, ISBN 9783892513407 , p. 286, ( limited preview ).
personal data
SURNAME Federschmidt, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Federschmidt, Dora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH 1984
Place of death Munich