Belgrade soldier broadcaster
The soldier broadcaster Belgrade , also called Radio Belgrade , was a German soldier broadcaster in Belgrade during World War II .
The Foreign Office acquired the medium wave transmitter Belgrade in May 1941; it was then operated by the Wehrmacht . In April 1942 it was merged with transmitters in Saloniki and Athens to form the Wehrmacht transmitter group Southeast . The leader was Lieutenant Karl-Heinz Reintgen ; Friedrich Meyer was responsible for the musical program between 1942 and 1944 . Another employee was the journalist Gerhard Eckert . Records were made available by the Reichsender Wien .
The station could be received from Narvik to North Africa and had up to 6 million listeners on both sides of the fronts. It transmitted on the wavelength 437.3 m, which corresponds to a medium wave frequency of 686 kHz. The power should have been 20 kW.
The soldier broadcaster Belgrade went down in history with the song Lili Marleen , which Radio Belgrade has broadcast every evening shortly before ten o'clock since 1941 and made it its signature tune.
His last broadcasts were made from the Hartigvilla before the Red Army marched into Bad Sauerbrunn . The technique was later used by the RIAS .
Individual evidence
- ^ From the soldiers of the Belgrade station: One year of the Belgrade soldiers' station . Publishing house Prop. Dept. "SO", Belgrade 1943.
- ^ Willi A. Boelcke: The power of radio: world politics and foreign broadcasting 1924-1976 . Ullstein publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 1977, pp. 225-239, p. 249
- ↑ Thomas Riegler: Milestones in broadcasting - data and facts on the development of radio and television. Siebel-Verlag, Meckenheim 2006, p. 50.
- ↑ Bad Sauerbrunn ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
