Information department of the Federal Foreign Office

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The information department of the Foreign Office was a department for conflict communication in the Reich Foreign Ministry during World War I and from September 1939 to April 1943.

management

• September 1939 to August 1940: Rudolf von Scheliha , deputy Rudolf Rahn
• From August 21 to October 15, 1940: Günther Altenburg .
• From late 1940 to June 15, 1941 Walter Stahlecker .
• June 15, 1941 to April 1943: Walther Wüster , Deputy Hans Bernd von Haeften .

Presentations

• Ref. I: Capturing and evaluating messages
• Ref. II, later Inf. VAA: Military intelligence and propaganda service, looked after liaison officers of the AA (VAAs) at the Army High Command (AOKs). They reported to Josias von Rantzau (1903–1950), Wilhelm Großkopf (1884–1942), Werner Graf von der Schulenburg and Gustav Hilger .
• Ref. III: Foreign language article service taken over in 1940 from the press department of the AA, headed by Hans Georg von Studnitz
• Ref. IV: Production and dissemination of literature in and abroad.

During the restructuring at the beginning of 1941, the article service, with around 50 mostly foreign editors, was reassigned to the press department and six sections structured according to country groups were formed so that

• Ref. X Country group USA Far East headed by Adam von Trott zu Solz
• Ref. XI Combating enemy atrocity propaganda
• Ref. XII / Intelligence Service

originated.

• Ref. XIV was founded on January 5th, 1944 as the "Anti-Jewish Action Point". Management: Horst Wagner The staff included: Adolf Hezinger , Paulus von Stolzmann

Employee

On September 1, 1942, 260 people were employed, among them Eugen Gerstenmaier ; Albrecht Haushofer : Klaus Mehnert ; Harald von Rautenfeld ; Alexander Werth ; Giselher Savoy cabbage .

literature

• Peter Longerich : Propagandists at War. The press department of the Foreign Office under Ribbentrop . Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54111-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ With the deferral of legal concerns , October 28, 2010
2. ↑ Peter Longerich, Propagandisten im Krieg , p. 51.