Hans Joachim von Reischach

Hans Joachim Graf von Reischach (born November 8, 1908 in Stuttgart ; † February 4, 1966 ibid) was a German journalist , operator of a news office and an official in National Socialist organizations.

Life

Reischach was born as the son of Captain Karl August Graf von Reischach . He joined the Bund Oberland as early as 1923 and took part in the Hitler putsch one day after his 15th birthday as part of a company marching to Freilassing . After graduating from high school in Breslau , Reischach studied law and economics.

As a member of the NSDAP and SA , Reischach was a squad leader and standard adjutant, and he also acted as a speaker. In 1929 he took over the editor-in-chief of the NSDAP's own Oberbergischer Bote , from January 1930 worked in the same position at the Koblenzer Nationalblatt, which was also part of the NSDAP, and in 1931 came to the Cologne West German Observer as political editor . In that year Reischach also became district leader of the city and district of Koblenz .

Since December 1, 1932, Reischach ran its own news office, the Graf Reischach newspaper service named after him , which went back to a predecessor founded by Robert Ley . The company also had diplomatic missions and a telex and telephone service. Initially, it supplied six newspapers in West Germany, but then expanded rapidly. The service was taken over in 1937 by the Reichsleiter for the press, Max Amann , and thus incorporated into the NSDAP. At that time, Reischach was chairman of the Berlin Association of Foreign Press. He was also a member of the “Small Fuhrer Council” of the Reich Association of the German Press . During the Second World War , Reischach was also one of the war correspondents.

From 1933 Reischach was a staff administrator in the Reich organizational leadership of the NSDAP, and he also held the position of head of the propaganda office of the German Labor Front . Although Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels did not comment on him in his diaries, an entry suggests that Reischach was one of his confidants. His newspaper service ceased operations towards the end of the Second World War.

After the war, Reischach was contacted by Werner Naumann , the former State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , who tried to renew his acquaintances with prominent figures of the Nazi regime. However , he did not belong to the emerging Naumann circle , which later tried to infiltrate the FDP .

Most recently, Reischach worked as press and advertising manager at Continental Elektroindustrie AG in Düsseldorf . He was also a member of the committees of the Federal Association of German Industry and the Central Association of the Electrical and Electronics Industry .

Reischach was married.

Web links

Entry on Reischach, Hans Joachim Graf von / 1908–1966 in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

^ "Five years of existence of the newspaper service Graf Reischach", German press , 1938 (vol. 28), issue 2, p. 33.
Werner Loesch: Essence and meaning of correspondence in journalism , dissertation Dresden 1939, p. 59.
Isabell Voigt: Correspondence offices as helpers to the press. In: Jürgen Wilke (Ed.): Put under pressure. Four chapters of German press history. (= Media in the past and present. 17). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-412-10506-6 , p. 122.
^ Jürgen Wilke : Press instructions in the twentieth century. First World War, Third Reich, GDR. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-10506-8 , p. 121.
^ Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Berlin (ed.): Handbook of the German daily press. Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1944 (7th edition), p. 395.
^ Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands : "Der Schicksalssaß", June 25, 1940, p. 5 and "Black 'Hussars' ahead!", October 21, 1940, p. 5 ( digitized holdings of the Royal Library of the Netherlands ).
↑ Elke Fröhlich (ed.): The diaries of Joseph Goebbels. Part II, Volume 12, Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22308-0 , pp. 43-44 (entry from April 2, 1944: “In the evening, Dr. Naumann, Schwarz van Berk and Graf Reischach are still with me Visit. We can discuss a myriad of questions of war and general politics until late in the night. It is very useful on such an occasion to talk everything down from the heart, not just for my people but for myself as well . ").
↑ The service existed until 1945 (see Zeitungsdienst Graf Reischach newspaper clippings, 1933–1945. And Rudolf Pörtner's biography in the Munzinger archive ). The NSDAP as the owner of the service was banned in the same year by the Control Council Act No. 2 including its affiliated organizations.
↑ Beate Baldow: Episode or Danger? The Naumann affair . Dissertation . Berlin 2012, p. 33. ( PDF )
↑ Beate Baldow: Episode or Danger? The Naumann affair . Dissertation Berlin 2012, “Further contacts”, p. 320ff (Reischach is included in this list on page 323). ( PDF )
↑ Helmut von der Heiden, Stephen Taylor (arr.): Who's Who in the Common Market's Press and Advertising. A Biographical Dictionary containing about 4 000 Biographies of prominent people in Press and Advertising in Belgium, France, Germany (West), Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Intercontinental Book and Pub. Co., Montreal 1965, p. 404.

personal data
SURNAME	Reischach, Hans Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reischach, Hans Joachim Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	4th February 1966
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] "Five years of existence of the newspaper service Graf Reischach", German press , 1938 (vol. 28), issue 2, p. 33.
Werner Loesch: Essence and meaning of correspondence in journalism , dissertation Dresden 1939, p. 59.
Isabell Voigt: Correspondence offices as helpers to the press. In: Jürgen Wilke (Ed.): Put under pressure. Four chapters of German press history. (= Media in the past and present. 17). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-412-10506-6 , p. 122.

[2] Jürgen Wilke : Press instructions in the twentieth century. First World War, Third Reich, GDR. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-10506-8 , p. 121.

[3] Institute for Newspaper Studies at the University of Berlin (ed.): Handbook of the German daily press. Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1944 (7th edition), p. 395.

[4] Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands : "Der Schicksalssaß", June 25, 1940, p. 5 and "Black 'Hussars' ahead!", October 21, 1940, p. 5 ( digitized holdings of the Royal Library of the Netherlands ).

[5] Elke Fröhlich (ed.): The diaries of Joseph Goebbels. Part II, Volume 12, Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22308-0 , pp. 43-44 (entry from April 2, 1944: “In the evening, Dr. Naumann, Schwarz van Berk and Graf Reischach are still with me Visit. We can discuss a myriad of questions of war and general politics until late in the night. It is very useful on such an occasion to talk everything down from the heart, not just for my people but for myself as well . ").

[6] The service existed until 1945 (see Zeitungsdienst Graf Reischach newspaper clippings, 1933–1945. And Rudolf Pörtner's biography in the Munzinger archive ). The NSDAP as the owner of the service was banned in the same year by the Control Council Act No. 2 including its affiliated organizations.

[7] Beate Baldow: Episode or Danger? The Naumann affair . Dissertation . Berlin 2012, p. 33. ( PDF )

[8] Beate Baldow: Episode or Danger? The Naumann affair . Dissertation Berlin 2012, “Further contacts”, p. 320ff (Reischach is included in this list on page 323). ( PDF )

[9] Helmut von der Heiden, Stephen Taylor (arr.): Who's Who in the Common Market's Press and Advertising. A Biographical Dictionary containing about 4 000 Biographies of prominent people in Press and Advertising in Belgium, France, Germany (West), Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Intercontinental Book and Pub. Co., Montreal 1965, p. 404.