Hermann Giess

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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

Fonts

  • The introduction of broadcasting in the formerly occupied territories of the Rhineland , 1925
  • World news treaties , with Hans Giesecke, Berlin 1941

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