Rudolf Sparing

Rudolf Sparing (born November 6, 1904 in Dresden , † April 5, 1955 in Potma ) was a German journalist . He was the second and last editor-in-chief of the Nazi weekly newspaper Das Reich .

Life

After graduating from high school, Sparing worked as a stenographer in the Reichstag . After the National Socialist seizure of power , he was responsible for editorial matters under Max Amann , Reichsleiter for the press . Sparing was part of the founding team of the NS flagship newspaper Das Reich , which was initiated by Rolf Rienhardt , and was the first editor-in-chief of the Brussels newspaper before he moved to the Pariser Zeitung , also an occupation newspaper , in the same position . Sparing, however, only monitored the immediate start-up phase and left the newspaper after a week. In February 1943 he was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Das Reich as the successor to Eugen Mündler and remained in this position until April 1945. Sparing was captured by the Red Army that year and later died in a camp in Potma.

literature

• High above grave and grief and death and torment . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1964 ( online - via Das Reich, with background information on Sparing's role in this newspaper).
• Sparing, Rudolf. In: Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 577.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Laska: Presse et propaganda en France occupée: des Moniteurs officiels (1870–1871) à la Gazette des Ardennes (1914–1918) et à la Pariser Zeitung (1940–1944) . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8316-0293-X , p. 258.