Roman Stempka

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Roman Stempka (born January 20, 1909 in Berlin ; † September 30, 1990 ) was a German press photographer .

Life

He was baptized and married a Catholic. He attended the Königstädter Realgymnasium and the Berlin School of Applied Arts. In 1929 he began an apprenticeship as a photographer at the publisher by August Scherl in Berlin. On January 12, 1937 he was embeded photo reporter of the Condor Legion in Salamanca with Francisco Franco . In 1939 he was a photo reporter for August Scherl's photo agency. He then worked for the Wehrmacht in a propaganda company . "This is how the fighter pilot sees a Polish city through the bow pulpit", propaganda recording from a Heinkel He 111 , September 1939 (photo: Roman Stempka; BA 183 S52911).

Under the direction of Harry Bohrer and Henry Ormond from the British Information Control Unit, the editors Rudolf Augstein (Germany), Hans Joachim Toll and Roman Stempka published a political magazine in Hanover This Week on November 16, 1946 . In order to circumvent a ban imposed by the Allied Control Council on account of criticism of the occupation policy, the British transferred the license to the photographer Roman Stempka, Gerhard R. Barsch (publisher) and Augstein in 1946, who from January 4, 1947, initially from Hanover under the Title Der Spiegel published and was also its editor-in-chief. Barsch left as a partner in 1950, Stempka in 1952.

From 1946 to 1952 licensee and responsible for graphic design and image of Der Spiegel in Hanover . From the proceeds of the sale of his shares to John Jahr , he became the commanding officer of the Otto KG printing company in Hanover.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roman Stempka personal photograph album of the Spanish Civil War, Stempka, Novel, 1909-1945, photographer, [1] ; edited by Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke Hamburgische Biografie-Personenlexikon, s. Augstein, [2] ; Together with the photographer Roman Stempka and the editor Gerhard R. Barsch, Rudolf Augstein took over the British magazine “This Week”, which was developed on the model of the British “ News Review ” and the American “ Time ”. [3] ; Roman Stempka, a former Berlin Scherl photographer and a member of a Wehrmacht propaganda company during the war, was about the same age as Werner Hühne. Chain smoker Stempka was able to store his first photos in a cigar box as an archive. His motto was: "Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words", and a second when things are hectic: "Powder, powder, the bandits are smoking!" [4]
  2. ↑ Sönke Neitzel, Harald Welzer, soldiers: protocols from fighting, killing and dying, 2011, [5]
  3. ↑ Jahr, John, publisher, (* April 29, 1900 in Hamburg; † November 8, 1991 in ibid.) 1950–1962 J. held a 50 percent stake in Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. In 1957 he took over the "Brigitte" from Ullstein-Verlag. In the Third Reich, John Jahr was in close contact with Goebbels […] and Photo-Hoffmann [6] [7]
  4. ↑ Dieter Mayer-Gürr (ed.). - Marburg: Jonas, photography & history: Timm Stad for his 60th birthday / 2000, p. 64
personal data
SURNAME Stempka, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German press photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1990