Horst Dreßler-Andreß

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Horst Dreßler-Andreß (born April 8, 1899 in Zeitz , † December 19, 1979 in Berlin-Karlshorst ) was a radio functionary and politician of the NSDAP , president of the Reichsrundfunkkammer , party functionary of the GDR block party NDPD , actor and director.

Live and act

Dreßler-Andreß came from a family of craftsmen. He was a soldier in the First World War from 1917 to 1918 . Dreßler-Andreß attended the Reinhardt School at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and then became a director at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. From 1925 to 1928 he worked at the Gera Theater. He became a member of the Young German Order , presented his broadcasting policy concepts to officials of the NSDAP in 1929 and joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1930. He held a managerial position in the National Socialist company cell organization . He belonged to the Reich Association of German Broadcasters , which was founded in 1930 , initially as the only NSDAP party member on the board. He founded the "NS group movement of artists and intellectual workers" before he was appointed head of the radio department in the NSDAP Reich leadership in 1931 and stayed there until 1937. In 1932 Dreßler-Andreß was elected to the Prussian state parliament for the NSDAP .

From June 1933 to March 1937 Dreßler-Andreß was in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Head of Department III Broadcasting with the rank of Ministerialrat , then until October 1938 Head of Department XI (Folk Cultural Work). He served from November 1933 as president of the Reich Radio Chamber and a member of the Reich Cultural Council. In addition, between 1934 and 1938 he took over the management of the Nazi community “ Strength through Joy ”, which he helped to found. He lost this post at the instigation of the NSDAP ideologist Alfred Rosenberg . During the Second World War he worked for the NSDAP in the General Government of Poland . From May to September 1940 he took part in the French campaign. From September 1940 he was head of the “Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda” department in Lublin . On May 8, 1941, he became head of the Management Office 2 at Work Area II in Krakow . From August 1941 Dreßler-Andreß was the representative of the NSDAP in Lemberg and built the NSDAP in the Galicia district . From October 1943 he was head of the propaganda department in the Krakow district . In 1945 he fell ill and moved with his family to Steinach (Thuringia) .

After the war, Dreßler-Andreß was imprisoned from 1945 to 1948 by the Soviet NKVD in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald . His National Socialist publications Work and Art (Hochwart Verl. Junker, Berlin 1935), The Reichsrundfunkkammer (Junker and Dünnhaupt, Berlin 1935), Leisure activities in Germany (Braun, Karlsruhe 1936), Three years of the National Socialist Community "Strength through Joy" ( Reichsdruckerei , Berlin 1936) and The Cultural Mission of Leisure Time (Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1936) (the latter three also include foreign-language editions) were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone . In March 1948 Dreßler-Andreß was classified in a denazification process by the Meiningen District Court, contrary to the criteria of the Soviet occupying power, as a "minor offender" in the probation group. In court he had presented “scientific socialism as the only possible way to solve the social problem” . The verdict says that he was "an upright idealist who believed that he could achieve a truly socialist goal within the National Socialist world order" .

Dreßler-Andreß continued to be politically active in the GDR. From 1948 he made a significant contribution to the establishment of the NDPD , an SED- controlled collecting basin for former Nazi functionaries, in the Soviet occupation zone and became a member of its main board. He was also a member of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR. In 1955 he took part in an advertising campaign for the formation of the National People's Army .

In 1950 Dreßler-Andreß worked as director of the regional broadcaster Weimar. From 1959 to 1962 he was a director at the theater in Eisenach , and in 1960 also at the Landestheater Dessau . From 1962 he worked as head director in Meiningen, 1963/1964 as director in Eisenhüttenstadt , where he was also the artistic director of the workers' theater. In 1964 he retired from professional life, but remained active in the workers' theater.

Awards

Works

  • The radio - the means of proclaiming the National Socialist worldview. In: Listen to me. , 1934, 5th year, No. 10
  • Work and art . Hochwart Verl. Junker, Berlin, 1935
  • The Reich Broadcasting Chamber . Junker u. Dünnhaupt, Berlin, 1935
  • Leisure time in Germany . Braun, Karlsruhe, 1936
  • Three years of the National Socialist Community “Strength through Joy” . Reichsdruckerei , Berlin, 1936
  • The cultural mission of recreational activities . Reichsdruckerei, Berlin, 1936

literature

  • Investigation Committee of Freedom Jurists (ed.): Former National Socialists in Pankow's service , Berlin-Zehlendorf, undated [1960], p. 17
  • Hasso Spode : Workers' leave in the Third Reich, in fear, reward, discipline and order. Mechanisms of rule under National Socialism , Opladen 1982.
  • Wolfhard Buchholz: The National Socialist Community Strength Through Joy , Diss. Munich 1976.
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 .
  • Simon Wiesenthal: The same language. First for Hitler - now for Ulbricht. , Bonn, R. Vogel, 1968, p. 28, OCLC 67400882
  • Olaf Kappelt: Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, p. 28 and p. 300–301, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Dreßler-Andreß - Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . In: Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . February 5, 2018 ( ns-reichsministerien.de [accessed March 29, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Rundfunk im Aufbruch - Handbuch des Deutschen Rundfunks 1934 with radio calendar, 1933, published by Reichsverband Deutscher Rundfunkteilnehmer (RDR) eV Berlin, p. 12
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-d.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-d.html
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-d.html
  6. ^ Judgment in the criminal case against the writer Horst Dreßler-Andreß. March 11, 1948 . Archives of the Meiningen Regional Court, files of the Large Criminal Chamber 201, StKs 16/48. Quoted in: Manfred Hempel: TV people in the field of tension between progress and reaction - About the work of German scientists, politicians and artists in the field of television from its historical beginnings to 1945 . In: William Urricchio (ed.): The beginnings of German television: Critical approaches to the development until 1945. , Walter de Gruyter, 1991, p. 44 and p. 56, ISBN 9783110918755
  7. ^ Falco Werkentin: Political criminal justice in the Ulbricht era: From avowed terror to covert repression . Ch. Links Verlag, 2010, p. 179, ISBN 9783862840229
  8. ↑ Horst Dreßler-Andreß . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1960, pp. 79 ( online ).
  9. ↑ New one-act play. In: Neues Deutschland from March 19, 1965
  10. ↑ http://www.trend.infopartisan.net/trd7809/t157809.html
personal data
SURNAME Dreßler-Andreß, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German President of the Reich Broadcasting Chamber, NDPD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeitz , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 19th December 1979
Place of death Berlin , Germany