Erhard Deutelmoser

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Erhard Eduard Deutelmoser (born June 22, 1873 in Iserlohn , † September 1, 1956 in Lenggries ) was a German officer. During the First World War he was head of the war press office at the Supreme Army Command , head of the press department in the Foreign Office and press chief of the Reich Chancellor .

Erhard Eduard Deutelmoser, Max von Baden and Wilhelm von Radowitz on their way to the Reichstag (1918)

Life

Deutelmoser passed the Abitur in 1892. Then he struck the military career (officer since May 20, 1893), in which he made it to lieutenant colonel . In 1899 he married Anna Christner. From 1900 to 1903 he attended the War Academy in Berlin. In 1906 he became a captain in the General Staff, to which he had been assigned with interruptions from 1904 to 1909. From 1909 to 1912 he was company commander .

In 1912 Deutelmoser was appointed as a major press officer and head of the press department in the Prussian War Ministry in Berlin. The unit was founded against the background of the events of the Balkan Wars . After the outbreak of the First World War , he was responsible for press policy and war censorship in Department IIIb of the Great General Staff . In October 1915 Deutelmoser was appointed the first head of the newly established war press office, which was responsible for the "public relations" of the Supreme Army Command (OHL). In practice, the office had the task of monitoring the German press and controlling which information about the politico-military development of the war was passed on to the newspapers or the OHL's point of view.

On October 28, 1916, after Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff took over the leadership of the OHL, Deutelmoser was replaced from this post. At the turn of the year 1916/17 he took over instead, with the rank of Ministerial Director and Real Secret Legation Councilor , head of Department IV (News) of the Foreign Office , which he held until 1918. In November 1917, Deutelmoser was also appointed press officer in the Reich Chancellery . In November 1918 he was given leave of absence from the Foreign Office and in January 1919 he left the service.

Deutelmoser was one of the officers who referred to the so-called stab in the back as such in the 1920s . The historian Hans Delbrück, for example, quoted the Berliner Tageblatt of October 3, 1921 in his text Ludendorff's self-portrait , published in 1922, with a statement by Deutelmoser:

“Not only defenders of the revolution, but also two old officers, Lieutenant Colonel Deutelmoser, the first chief of the War Press Office in Berlin, and Colonel Schwertfeger have vigorously rejected the accusation against the homeland. The "stab in the back legend" is [according to] Deutelmoser "basically viewed, obvious nonsense" (Berliner Tageblatt, October 3, 1921) [...] "

From 1921 Deutelmoser worked for the Wolff company in Berlin. In the 1930s he lived in Lenggries in Upper Bavaria.

Fonts

  • Between yesterday and tomorrow. Political suggestions. Berlin 1919.

literature

  • Kurt Koszyk : Erhard Deutelmoser. Officer and press officer (1873-1956). in: Journalism. 30, 1985, pp. 509-534.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to Brockhaus Handbuch des Wissens , 1921, p. 525.
  2. ^ Date and place of death according to Wilhelm Kosch / Carl Ludwig Lang: Deutsches Literaturlexikon. The 20th Century , 2000, p. 141.
  3. ^ Harry Graf Kessler : Das Tagebuch 1880-1937 , 2004, p. 781.
  4. ^ Jürgen Wilke: Presseppolitik und Propaganda , 1997, p. 120. The office emerged from the OHL's senior censorship office.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Wilke: Press instructions in the twentieth century , 2007, p. 25.
  6. ↑ Delbrück, Hans: Ludendorff's self-portrait with a refutation of Forster's counter-writ . Verlag für Politik und Wirtschaft, Berlin 1922, page 63 ( full text on archive.org )
  7. ^ Peter Danylow: Otto Wolff. A company between business and politics , 2005, p. 190.
personal data
SURNAME D Beutelmoser, Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deutelmoser, Erhard Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, chief of the war press office at the Supreme Army Command
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1956
Place of death Lenggries