Reichspost television company

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Combined television and radio receiver from the Telefunken company from 1933.

The Reichspost-Fernsehgesellschaft (RFG) was founded on August 14, 1939 by the Reichspost as a public corporation . On September 1, 1939, she took over the recording and demonstration service of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG). The sole managing director of the company was Friedrich Stumpf , who also held 5% of the company shares. The remaining 95% was held by the Reichspost.

The company was responsible for the technical processing of broadcasting operations in the German Reich . In the summer of 1939 there were optimistic plans to make television available to the general public. With the beginning of the Second World War , however, these plans were not fully implemented.

Original text from 1942: Television in the hospitals. The television in the infirmary offers a little change for the wounded. The German Reichspost will soon set up additional television receivers in the Berlin hospitals in order to allow bedridden and unable to go out wounded to participate in the current cultural life in addition to radio and occasional film screenings.

The television company initially had around 100 employees and grew to 150 employees by 1942. In addition, around 90 employees of the studio in Paris, which opened in 1942, were added. In Paris, the employees took care of the technical side of the transmission of the Paris TV station, which was broadcast from June 1943 . The content work was done by around 300 employees of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft .

In addition to the handling and further development of television operations, the RFG had the task of developing equipment that was important to the war effort since the outbreak of war. Among other things, the military's communication should be improved. But it was also examined whether the television technology could be used for aerial reconnaissance. In addition, a night fighter procedure should be developed that recognizes and reports enemy aircraft. In addition, work was carried out in the laboratories on a television torpedo and a television-controlled glide bomb .

The company existed beyond the end of the war and was taken over by the NWDR on October 1, 1948 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broadcasting in Germany II: Broadcasting Policy in the Third Reich, page 196, by Hans Bausch, ISBN 3423031840 .
  2. ↑ a b Walter Bruch: Brief history of German television 1967, p. 101.
  3. ^ Charlottenburg II. The New West, page 66, by Andreas Hoffmann, Marie-Luise Kreuter, and Harald Reissig from Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhd, ISBN 3875841433 .
  4. ↑ SPIEGEL SPECIAL 8/1995 - Black lips, green lids . In: Spiegel Online , August 1, 1995. Retrieved February 6, 2011. 

literature

  • Hubert Faensen: The Hakeburg from the research center to the cadre forge. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2001.
  • Erwin Reiss: We send happiness. Television under fascism. Elephanten Press, Berlin 1979.
  • Joachim-Felix Leonhard, Hans-Werner Ludwig , Dietrich Schwarze, Erich Straßner (eds.): Media Studies: A Handbook for the Development of Media and Forms of Communication, Volume 3. De Gruyter, Berlin 2002.