Kurt Teege

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Kurt Teege (* 1912 or 1913; † September 15, 1942 near Stalingrad ) was a German journalist . During the Second World War he was the first editor-in-chief of the Deutsche Zeitung in Norway , which as an occupation newspaper exercised a pioneering function for subsequent papers in other countries.

Life

Teege first worked for National Socialist newspapers in Bremen and Breslau . Shortly after the seizure of power , the first paper, the Bremer Nationalozialistische Zeitung , published a report by him, which, after he had spent a few days in the Mißler concentration camp as a disguised Marxist , the former SPD Reichstag deputy and editor-in-chief of the Bremer Volkszeitung Alfred Faust , his environment and should discredit other "fallen pillars of the Jewish republic". He wrote about the concentration camp and its prisoners. a.

“In the concentration camp, the inmates can talk to each other as much as they want, they can read books and newspapers, play skat, etc. I myself spent my free time playing chess and can say that I improved my knowledge in this area thanks to the concentration camp. It is almost paradoxical, but the royal chess game is particularly preferred by the communist camp inmates. "

He said of Faust as follows:

“Just like his colleagues, Faust has already adapted very well to the camp conditions and, with his fat belly, gives the impression of a middle-class gentleman in the early 1950s than that of a former social democratic leader and editor whose sole task was to promote National Socialism and thus to slander the leader of the new Germany, Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler and to throw dirt at it. Comrade Faust received the reward for his atrocities through his placement in the concentration camp, which will also be his stay in a few years. "

During the Abyssinian War , Teege reported on site as a correspondent a. a. for the Pommersche Zeitung , then for the newspaper service Graf Reischach from Prague and Warsaw . However, his time in the latter city only lasted about a month, in May 1939 he was expelled from Poland . From November 1939 he worked in Oslo . After the successful invasion of Norway for Germany , Teege, who spoke fluent Norwegian , received the offer to become chief editor of the new German newspaper in Norway . According to the later statements of the then Reichsleiter for the press, Max Amann , such an offer was to be interpreted as an award, because only the best journalists were selected for the German occupation newspapers. Teege remained chief editor of the Deutsche Zeitung until the end of 1941 and then returned to Germany.

According to reports in the National Socialist German press that appeared on the occasion of his death, Teege volunteered for the Air Force . Thereupon he was deployed on the Eastern Front, first with the flak and then with the fighter planes, and as a member of a propaganda company , he also delivered war reports. Teege was said to have died in combat during the first days of the Battle of Stalingrad .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ " Alfred Faust released from 'protective custody' ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “, Radio Bremen , April 30, 2013 and death of the PK man by an aviator. In: Kösliner Zeitung , 10./11. October 1942, p. 5 ( Latvian National Digital Library ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  2. ↑ a b c " Alfred Faust released from 'protective custody' ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “, Radio Bremen , April 30, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  3. ↑ Aviation death of the PK man. In: Kösliner Zeitung , 10./11. October 1942, p. 5 ( Latvian National Digital Library ).
    German editor expelled from Poland. In. German news agency, May 30, 1939 No. 826 (Second Morning Edition) ( newspaper Information System of the Berlin State Library ).
    Journalist uitgewezen. In: De Indische courant , May 27, 1939, p. 10 ( digitized holdings of the Royal National Library of the Netherlands ).
  4. ^ Guri Hjeltnes, Gunnar Koehne, Eckart Klaus Roloff : Printing in the north. Nazi policy in Norway 1940-1945. In: medium , 1988 (Vol. 18), No. 2, p. 61.
  5. ^ Guri Hjeltnes, Gunnar Koehne, Eckart Klaus Roloff : Printing in the north. Nazi policy in Norway 1940-1945. In: medium , 1988 (Vol. 18), No. 2, p. 61 and Oddvar Munksgaard: Gestapo-kameraten. Gyldendal, Oslo 1973, ISBN 82-05-06014-2 , p. 25.
  6. ↑ Oron J. Hale : Press in the Straitjacket 1933-45 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1965, German translation of The captive press in the Third Reich , University Press, Princeton 1964, p. 281.
  7. ↑ Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo (ed.): Norske aviser 1763-1969. En bibliografi. 1: Alfabetisk fortegnelse. Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo, Oslo 1973, ISBN 82-7000-028-0 , p. 110.
  8. ↑ Aviation death of the PK man. In: Kösliner Zeitung , 10./11. October 1942, p. 5 ( Latvian National Digital Library ) and Not Returned ... On the death of colleague Kurt Teege. In: Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands , October 9, 1942, p. 5 ( digitized holdings of the Royal National Library of the Netherlands ).
personal data
SURNAME Teege, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1912 or 1913
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1942
Place of death Stalingrad