Emil Frotscher

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Emil Frotscher (* 1902 or 1903; † August 1986 in Ahrensburg ) was a German journalist.

Life

Little is known about Frotscher's background and activities before the Second World War , except that he worked for the Berliner Illustrierte Nachtausgabe . He was involved in the founding of the Nazi weekly newspaper Das Reich , but was not an editor there.Instead, during the war he helped to set up the occupation newspapers of Europa-Verlag, a subsidiary of Franz-Eher-Verlag under Max Amann , run by Rolf Rienhardt .

His first position was the Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands , where he was first editor-in-chief from June to December 1940. From January 1941 he was first deputy editor-in-chief of the sister newspaper Pariser Zeitung until he was replaced by Alfred Rapp at the end of May 1941 . Most recently, Frotscher organized the publication of occupation newspapers in the newly conquered territories that had fallen into German hands after the attack on the Soviet Union in Rienhardt's administrative office , which belonged to the Nazi press empire under Max Amann, as head of the Eastern Newspapers Department. For example, he founded the Deutsche Zeitung im Ostland , which was published in Riga. Before that, Frotscher had worked on the Revaler Zeitung. In 1941 Frotscher published a book in Riga in which he justified violence against "Jews" and gave anti-Semitic interpretations of images.

After the Second World War, Frotscher became editor-in-chief of the national tabloid, Abendpost . Under his leadership, this newspaper reached a circulation of 181,390 copies in December 1952. This is where Frotscher's skill became apparent, as Kurt Pritzkoleit attested to the paper a few years later in “Who belongs to Germany” with “prompt news delivery [and] accurate political glosses” and a feature section whose “topicality, liveliness and critical courage gave the evening post a special place” have. After half of the newspaper had been taken over by Herbert Allerdt, the trustee of the social democratic concentration GmbH, in August 1963, Frotscher submitted his resignation. The reason for this is said to have been that Allerdt suggested to the editors to stand up for Willy Brandt as future Federal Chancellor, whereupon Frotscher feared that the evening post would have been brought into the party line from then on.

He then moved to Welt am Sonntag , where he was responsible for the “Series and Biographies” department from 1964 to 1970. Frotscher died in Ahrensburg at the age of 83.

Publications

  • Ostland returns to Europe - Notes from a trip with the Reich Commissioner Hinrich Lohse through Lithuania and Belarus. Publishing house "Deutsche Zeitung im Ostland", Riga 1941.

literature

  • Gabriele Hoffmann: Nazi propaganda in the Netherlands: Organization and control of journalism . Verlag Documentation Saur, Munich-Pullach / Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-7940-4021-X (excursus: The German newspaper in the Netherlands )
  • Andreas Laska: Presse et propaganda en France occupée: des Moniteurs officiels (1870–1871) à la Gazette des Ardennes (1914–1918) et à la Pariser Zeitung (1940–1944) . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8316-0293-X (French, with German summary)
  • Kurt Pritzkoleit: Who owns Germany . Kurt Desch publisher, Vienna / Munich / Basel 1957
  • Peter H. Blaschke / Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation (ed.): Journalist under Goebbels. A father study based on the files . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, p. 103, ISBN 978-3-8353-0437-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message in the world on Sunday of August 31, 1986
  2. ^ Peter H. Blaschke: Journalist under Goebbels - a father study based on the files. Published by Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation , Wallstein 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0437-6 , p. 103.
  3. ↑ Emil Frotscher: Ostland returns to Europe - Notes from a trip with the Reich Commissioner Hinrich Lohse through Lithuania and Belarus. Publishing house "Deutsche Zeitung im Ostland", Riga 1941. pp. 16 and 32.
  4. ^ A b Kurt Pritzkoleit: Who Owns Germany , Verlag Kurt Desch, Vienna / Munich / Basel 1957, p. 215
  5. ^ Death from the ticker . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1966 ( online - 25 April 1966 ).
personal data
SURNAME Frotscher, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands, deputy editor-in-chief of the Pariser Zeitung, editor-in-chief of the Abendpost
DATE OF BIRTH 1902 or 1903
DATE OF DEATH August 1986
Place of death Ahrensburg