Ernst Ludwig Voss

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Ernst Ludwig Voss (born January 1, 1880 in Lübeck , † January 24, 1961 in Verden ) was a German diplomat and radio pioneer.

Life

Ernst Ludwig Voss studied from 1902 and was in 1905 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Rostock Dr. phil. PhD. In 1902 he became a member of the Corps Visigothia Rostock. He worked for many years as a trade expert and diplomat for the Foreign Office in Brazil and Spain. After military service in World War I from 1914 to 1918, his field of activity was in Germany. He had been given the task of trying to boost the German economy by organizing the rapid forwarding of important stock market, price and rate information. After the reports were initially sent by telegraph or express letter, Voss played a major role in ensuring that radiotelephony was used for these purposes from 1921 . In 1922 he participated in the reconstitution of the Corps Neoborussia Berlin . He was one of the founders of the first German radio program, the German hour in Bavaria, which was broadcast in 1922, and helped found the first regional German broadcasting company, Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG). In doing so, he promoted the idea of ​​making broadcasting accessible to the general public. The NDR later emerged from NORAG . Until 1933, Voss was a member of the supervisory boards of most German broadcasting companies.

In 1932 he deliberately withdrew from political life and acquired Gut Wahrstorf , which is only a few kilometers south of Rostock . Due to the regulations of the Soviet occupying power, he had to leave the estate in December 1945 and together with his wife found refuge with his daughter Rosemarie in Verden (Aller).

literature

  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 143 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , small matriculation, WS 1904/05, No. 10.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 186, 77.
  3. ^ Anke Sperling: Dorfchronik der Gemeinde Pölchow, 1995, p. 181.
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Ernst Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1961
Place of death Verden