State Committee for Broadcasting

The State Broadcasting Committee (StKfR; also: State Broadcasting Committee, SRK) was founded on September 15, 1952 in East Berlin based on the Soviet model and was the highest governing body for broadcasting in the GDR . With the establishment of the State Broadcasting Committee, "GDR broadcasting became a state broadcasting service" ( Ingrid Pietrzynski ).

On September 15, 1968, an independent State Committee for Television was formed. The State Broadcasting Committee remained and was responsible for the management and control of radio until the end of the GDR.

From a formal point of view, the State Broadcasting Committee was subordinate to the Council of Ministers of the GDR , but in reality it was subject to the political control and guidance of the Central Committee of the SED (ZK). The Central Committee Agitation Department was responsible for the media . The longstanding and last head of the radio and television section there was Eberhard Fensch .

The Council of Ministers of the GDR decided on November 30, 1989, on the instructions of its chairman Hans Modrow, to dissolve the two state committees for radio and television.

In 1959, the State Broadcasting Committee received the Gold Patriotic Order of Merit on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the GDR .

Chairperson

• Kurt Heiss (1952–1956), general director of all GDR radio stations since 1951
• Hermann Ley (1956–1962)
• Gerhart Eisler (1962–1968), died in office
• Reginald Grimmer (1968–1971)
• Rudolf Singer (1971–1980), deceased in office
• Achim Becker (1980–1989)

Web links

• GDR Radio and Television Committee: Tasks and History (document from the Federal Agency for Political Education), from "Tele-Visions: Television History in East and West" (without publication date) , accessed March 27, 2015, PDF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunter Holzweißig: The sharpest weapon of the party (2002), p. 217 f.
2. ^ Chronicle of GDR television , on the website of the German Broadcasting Archive , accessed on June 13, 2013
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 4, 1959, p. 3