Hermann Giess
Hermann Jakob Giess - also: Hermann Giess - (born April 14, 1875 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 4, 1963 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Post . As a representative of the German Reich, he signed several international agreements in the field of radio communications.
Life
After attending grammar school in Frankfurt am Main, he joined the Reichspost in 1894. He passed his major state examination in 1902. He was promoted to telegraph director in 1914. From 1914 to 1915 he did his first military service, where he was commander of a radio department in Königs Wusterhausen .
From 1915 to 1919 he was regimental commander in command of the telegraph department in the Orient in the Balkans and in Asia Minor. Under this command, a communications network was set up on the Danube-Caucasus-Baghdad-Sinai line. A telephone connection to Constantinople was also established.
As a major in the reserve, he finished his military service. After returning to the Reichspost, he was promoted to senior post director in 1924. At that time he belonged to the commission of the Reich Ministry of Post for the occupied territories at the Inter-Allied High Command in Wiesbaden . There he was able to ensure that the radio broadcasts for the Rhineland could be resumed.
In 1926 he was promoted to the Oberpostrat and appointed to the Reich Ministry of Post. In the same year, a cable to the Azores was laid under his supervision . In 1927 he took part in the World Radio Conference in Washington as representative of Germany as a Ministerial Councilor. In London he represented Germany in 1929 at the Safety Conference for Shipping. In Copenhagen in 1931 he was the delegation leader at the radio conference.
He also led the German delegation to the 1932 World Radio Conference in Madrid. A year later he was promoted to Ministerial Director and led the German delegation to the European Radio Conference in Lucerne . He also led the German delegation in Lisbon at the European Radio Conference in 1935. In 1939 he was involved in the conference in Montreux that drew up the plan for the frequencies of the European radio stations. During his service in Berlin in 1935 he lived in Berlin-Zehlendorf at Schwerinstrasse 20.
From 1945 until 1947 in the British zone of occupation he headed the Reichspost-Oberdirektion in Bad Salzuflen in the rank of State Secretary in order to help rebuild the postal service.
Honors
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
- Bavarian Order of Military Merit IV class with swords
- Knight's Cross of the Order of Albrecht I. Class with swords
- Hanseatic Cross Hamburg
- Order of the Iron Crown
- Austrian Military Merit Cross III. class
- Bulgarian Commanders Cross
- Turkish Order of Liakat
- Imtiyaz Order
- Osmanje Order IV class
- 1952: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1955: Honorary Senator of the TH Darmstadt
Fonts
- The introduction of broadcasting in the formerly occupied territories of the Rhineland , 1925
- World news treaties , with Hans Giesecke, Berlin 1941
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? , Berlin 1935
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SURNAME | Giess, Hermann |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giess, Hermann Jakob; Pour, Hermann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil servant, ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Post |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
DATE OF DEATH | May 4th 1963 |
Place of death | Bad Salzuflen |