Eugene Hadamovsky

Eugen Hadamovsky (born December 14, 1904 in Berlin ; † March 1, 1945 near Hölkewiese , Rummelsburg i. Pom. ) Was a functionary of the NSDAP and between 1933 and 1942 Reichssendeleiter in German radio.

Life

Eugen Hadamovsky already belonged to the Black Reichswehr as a senior high school student . According to his own information, he studied chemistry and mechanical engineering in Berlin and after the dissolution of the Freikorps made his way as a locksmith and car mechanic in Austria , Italy , North Africa and Spain from 1921 . In 1928 he returned to Berlin and in 1930 joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). A little later, the Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels noticed him and in 1931 commissioned Hadamovsky to bring the Reich Association of German Broadcasters into line. A year later he rose to head of department in the Reich Propaganda Office of the NSDAP . One of his tasks was to have Adolf Hitler's election speeches broadcast on the radio during the numerous election campaigns in the early 1930s .

Hadamovsky's Homage to Hitler as a Book (1937)

Shortly after the seizure of the Nazis appointed 1933 Goebbels Hadamovsky to the transmission conductor of Germany transmitter . Only a few months later he was appointed program director ("Reichssendeleiter") of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft . In these positions, Hadamovsky played a key role in the synchronization of broadcasting in Germany operated by Goebbels .

Also in 1933 Hadamovsky became vice-president of the Reichsrundfunkkammer , in which the editors working in the broadcasting sector were recorded. In the same year Hadamovsky published Propaganda and National Power , and in the following year Radio in the Service of the People's Leadership . From 1935 on, he was also the employer of the directors of the first German television station ( television station Paul Nipkow ). On March 22, 1935, he opened the world's first regular and public television program service with a speech as Reichssendelleiter in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The program was designed by the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft, the technical side was in charge of the Reichspost.

With the outbreak of World War II , Hadamovsky was responsible for front reporting on the radio. At the beginning of 1940 Goebbels appointed him head of the radio department in the Reich Propaganda Ministry . Differences followed with Goebbels, whereupon the latter withdrew all posts in the broadcasting sector because of "obvious incompetence" and relegated Hadamovsky to the comparatively uninfluential post of head of the NSDAP's Reich Propaganda Headquarters. At the end of 1943, Hadamovsky, tired of his insignificant post, volunteered as a tank officer for the Wehrmacht . On March 1, 1945, he died in an attack on the village of Hölkewiese in Western Pomerania, which was occupied by Soviet troops .

All of Hadamovsky's writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone (later GDR ) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 209.
2. ↑ Television Museum: History of communications engineering
3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-h.html