Kurt Metger

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Kurt Metger (born October 20, 1880 in Flensburg as Conrad Heinrich Metger , † March 14, 1953 in Berlin ) was a German journalist who headed the special editorial team of the German News Office , which supplied provincial newspapers with news, during the National Socialist rule .

Life

Metger was the son of the longstanding national liberal Prussian member of the state parliament and professor Conrad Hermann Metger and his wife Asminde Marie Elise geb. Mörck.

He became a member and functionary of the National Liberal Party and was actively involved in founding the German People's Party . This party secured his participation beyond the scope of his journalistic activities by being appointed to its central board. He studied law at the Universities of Tübingen , Kiel and Leipzig . During his studies he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia in the summer semester of 1899 . In 1910 he received his doctorate in law .

Journalistic career

He began his journalistic career with the national newspaper . In 1908, after merging this with the “Post”, he was initially a Berlin representative for the “Magdeburgische Zeitung” and later for a number of years for the “Leipziger Neuesten Nachrichten”. In 1920 he became political editor at Rudolf Dammert's publishing house and moved to the Telegraphen-Union in 1921 after its merger with the Telegraphen-Union . For a number of years he was a board member of the Berlin district association of the Reich Association of the German Press. He was also in a leading position in the Reich Association of the German Press , as well as in the Reich Working Group. From 1923 to 1926 he was the first chairman of the Berlin Press Association and was a member of its narrower presidium until 1930.

In 1920 he was the chief editor of the Telegraphen-Union , in 1930 editor-in-chief of the Dämmert-Verlag (Telegraphen-Union) and head of an editorial office to which leading German people's party provincial newspapers were affiliated.

After the Telegraph Union opened up in the German news office on December 5, 1933, he headed a special editorial office in this state monopoly news agency , the Metger special service named after him , and thus assumed a key role in the National Socialist information distribution system.

On December 30, 1947, he was interrogated by the Interrogation Department of the Office of the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes (OCCWC)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. 1967, master roll no. 305
  2. ↑ In 1908 it was reported that Scherl would add the “National-Zeitung” and the “Post” to his “Tag”.
  3. ^ Zeitungs-Verlag: Journal for the entire newspaper industry, 1930, [1]
  4. ^ Stefan Krings, Hitler's press chief: Otto Dietrich (1897–1952). A biography, [2]
  5. ^ Office of the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, [3]
personal data
SURNAME Metger, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, functionary of the German People's Party
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1953
Place of death Berlin