Reich Broadcasting Chamber

The bunker of the New Reich Chancellery was closed on August 9, 1990 - the former Reichsrundfunk was working behind this door

The Reichsrundfunkkammer was an institution in the German Reich that had the task of using radio to promote the synchronization of society during the Nazi era . It was founded on July 3, 1933 as one of the seven departments of the Reich Chamber of Culture . President of the Reichsrundfunkkammer was Horst Dreßler-Andreß , the Reichsendleiter Eugen Hadamovsky was appointed as Vice-President .

In the Reichsrundfunkkammer, the radio industry, radio trade, radio press, listener associations and the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft were under the leadership of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels , the Reich propaganda leader of the NSDAP . Quote Goebbels:

"We make no secret of it: the radio belongs to us, no one else. And we will put the radio at the service of our idea, and no other idea should have its say here."

The purpose of the Reichsrundfunkkammer was thus "to serve the will of the Führer " and "to penetrate the whole people with the radio in order to make the state leadership and the national community into a unified whole ".

In 1939 the Reichsrundfunkkammer was dissolved and its tasks were transferred to the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft .

See also

• History of radio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutsche Welle : July 3, 1933: Synchronization of broadcasting
2. ↑ Christine Fischer-Defoy : On the history of the Berlin broadcasting corporation between 1933 and 1945. A project sketch. In: Members' newsletter No. 63, July 2010 (PDF; 445 kB) of the Active Museum .