Friedrich Georg Knöpfke

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Friedrich Georg Knöpfke (born April 18, 1874 in Berlin ; † September 14, 1933 there ) was the first director of Funk-Hour Berlin .

Life

From 1895 to 1903 he worked in the publishing book trade and then became an authorized signatory. In 1911 he became a Freemason in the Johannis Lodge zum Aries, in which he held the office of clerk. From 1917 to 1921 he was authorized signatory and advertising manager at Deutsche Grammophon AG and from 1921 to 1923 at Vox Schallplatten- und Speechmaschinen AG .

Hans Bredow had demonstrated radio for the first time in 1919. When the Radio-hour AG was constituted at the end of 1923 under the organization of the German hour (from which later the radio-hour AG in Berlin emerged), Knöpfke was its managing director until 1932. On October 29, 1923, he read the first radio announcement from the Berlin VOX building with 400 watts high frequency: “Attention, attention. The broadcasting station in Berlin is in the Vox-Haus on Welle 400. Ladies and gentlemen, we are informing you that the entertainment radio service will begin today with the distribution of music presentations by wireless telephone. Use is subject to approval. "

In 1926 he wrote his dissertation at the University of Breslau, The reproduction of stage works on the radio in their copyright significance . When the program council of the German broadcasting companies was constituted on June 24, 1926 , Knöpfke was elected chairman.

After his retirement in 1927, the theater director (Christian?) Carl Hagemann took over the board post for two years.

Knöpfke also owned the magazine Die Funkstunde . The broadcasting company was later taken over to 51% by the Reichspost and thus semi-official. After the intervention of the supervisory board of the radio hour and the Reichsrundfunkkommissar Dr. Bredow in October 1928 Knöpfke's connection with the magazine Funkstunde was broken. Allegedly he had sold his shares to the IS Preuss printing company . After a later review of the printer's books, Knöpfke was accused of receiving bribes from the printer.

In November 1929, he and the artistic director of the broadcast department, Alfred Braun, publicly joined the SPD. In February 1933 it was alleged that he had brought a considerable part of his fortune to Switzerland.

By 1933, in the course of the “Gleichschaltung”, ten out of eleven broadcast directors had left. Knöpfke, who advocated freedom of expression on the radio and opposed this policy, was arrested by the Gestapo , mistreated and forced to sign a confession of corruption. After his release, he committed suicide on September 14, 1933. His grave is in the Onkel Tom cemetery in Zehlendorf.

Publications

  • The reproduction of stage works on the radio in their copyright significance ; Berlin, Preuss, 1926; Breslau, Univ., Diss., 1927

literature

  • Friedrich Georg Knöpfke , In: Funkköpfe: 46 literary portraits , ed. by Karl Wilczynski , Berlin: Funk-Dienst Verlag, 1927, pp. 14-16.
  • Hans Mahle : September 14, 1933 - September 14, 1945. Professor Friedrich Georg Knöpfke ; In: Radio and History ; Vol. 25, 1999. H. 2/3. Pp. 151-152. 3 / 2995-25- Lecture (September 14, 1945) commemorating the 12th anniversary of the death (September 14, 1933) of the first director of the Berliner Funkstunde

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DRA-Anniversaries_2008_f.vp (PDF; 637 kB)
  2. ^ Albrecht Dümling: Longed for by musicians, hollowed out by Goebbels - A Berlin conference on the Reich Chamber of Music . In: nmz 9/13 - 62nd year
  3. ^ Herbert Michaelis: Causes and Consequences: From the German collapse in 1918 and 1945 to the state reorganization of Germany in the present; a collection of certificates and documents on contemporary history. Volume 1. Document publishing house, p. 372 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Georg Berkemeier, Isolde Maria Weineck (ed.): Sequenzen. Prof. Dr. Dedicated to Maria Elisabeth Brockhoff on April 2nd, 1982 by students, friends and colleagues (= contributions to Westphalian music history, issue 17). Westf. Wilhelms-Univ., 1982, p. 243 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ^ Christian Maatje: Sold air: the commercialization of broadcasting; Radio advertising in Germany (1923-1936) (= publications of the German Broadcasting Archive, Volume 32). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2000, ISBN 3935035047 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  6. ↑ Joachim Stange: The importance of the electroacoustic media for music in the 20th century. Centaurus, 1989, ISBN 3890852904 , p. 31 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  7. ↑ The media on the threshold of the 3rd millennium
  8. ^ Gerhard Laurisch: The radio as an employer. Neuenhahn, 1933, p. Viii ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  9. ^ Hans Bausch: Rundfunk in Deutschland: Rundfunkpolitik nach 1945 (= dtv 3184). Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3423031859 , p. 310 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  10. ↑ Günther Schulz (Ed.): Business with Word and Opinion: Media Entrepreneurs since the 18th Century: Büdinger Research on Social History 1996 and 1997 (= German Leadership Classes in Modern Times, Volume 22). H. Boldt, 1999, ISBN 348656370X ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  11. ↑ http://library.fes.de/spdpdalt/19330121.pdf p. 14/21
  12. ↑ DWDS
  13. ↑ Bruno Peters: --For and about -, the history of Freemasonry in the German Empire, 1870-1933. Word & Image Specials ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  14. ↑ Bruno Peters: Berlin Freemasons: a contribution to the cultural history of Berlin. Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein, 1994, p. 36 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Knöpfke, Friedrich Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio pioneer; first director of Funk-Hour Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1933
Place of death Berlin