Reich Press Chamber

The Reich Press Chamber ( RPK ) regulated the German press during the Nazi era .

It emerged from the Reich Working Group of the German Press and was founded on November 1, 1933 on the basis of the First Ordinance for the Implementation of the Reich Chamber of Culture Act. It formed one of the seven sub-chambers of the Reich Chamber of Culture . Membership in the Reich Press Chamber was a prerequisite for working in the press area.

The Reich Press Chamber was organized as a public corporation . Its seat was in Berlin W 35 at Von-der Heydt-Strasse 10.

The Reich Press Chamber was President Max Amann , Reichsleiter for the press of the NSDAP. Vice-President was at least in 1940 State Secretary Otto Dietrich , who was also Reich Press Chief of the NSDAP. In that year Anton Willi was the managing director. In 1940 the Presidential Council consisted of the President and Vice President of the Reich Press Chamber and the Managing Director:

• the bookseller and leader of the Reich Association of German Magazine Publishers Willi Bischoff ,
• the chief office manager at the Reich leadership of the NSDAP Adolf Dresler ,
• Privy Councilor Walther Heide , who is the President of the German Association of Newspapers ,
• the managing director of the NS-Gauverlag for Saxony Hans Hornauer ,
• the permanent deputy head of the Reich Association of German Newspaper Publishers and staff head of the Reichsleiter for the press of the NSDAP, lawyer Rolf Rienhardt ,
• the chief editor of the attack, Hans Schwarz van Berk
• the Obergruppenführer and deputy chief editor in the Völkischer Beobachter Hauptmann a. D. Wilhelm White
• Main Office Manager Edgar Brinkmann and
• Ildephons judge

At another time Kurt Jahncke was a member of the Presidential Council of the Reich Press Chamber .

The Reich Press Chamber was structured into professional associations and student councils within the chamber. These were u. a .:

• the Reich Association of German Newspaper Publishers ,
• the Reich Association of German Magazine Publishers ,
• the Reich Association of German Correspondence and News Offices Berlin ,
• the main student body of the church-confessional press (divided into the Reichsverband der Evangelischen Presse and student body of the Catholic-church press ),
• the professional association of the broadcast press ,
• the Reich Association of the German Press ,
• the student council of the publishing house employees ,
• the Reich Association of German Press Stenographers ,
• the Reich Association for the Advertising Magazine Trade ,
• the Reich Association of German Reading Circle Owners ,
• the Association of German Newspaper and Magazine Wholesalers ,
• the student council of the German newspaper and magazine retail trade and
• the Reich Association of German Train Station Booksellers .

The official journal of the Reich Press Chamber was published by the Reich Association of the German Press , headed by Wilhelm Weiß, and was entitled German Press. Magazine for the entire interests of the newspaper industry . The journal was later renamed the Journal for All Newspapers and Magazines .

literature

• German stage yearbook. Theater history year and address book. Volume 51, 1940, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 145.

Web links

• Reichspressekammer on www.lexikon-drittes-reich.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Uffa Jensen: Reich Chamber of Culture. In: Wolfgang Benz , Hermann Graml and Hermann Weiß (eds.): Encyclopedia of National Socialism . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, p. 680 f.
2. ^ Andreas Vogel, Christina Holtz-Bacha: Journalism, journals and journal research , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2002, ISBN 3-531-13661-5 .