Telegraph Union

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Telegraphen-Union (TU) was the name of a news agency founded in 1913 . It was a merger of the following companies:

  • Louis Hirsch's Telegraphic Office
    • including the dispatch agency Schenkel,
  • of the Herold dispatch office,
  • of Telegraphen-Union GmbH,
  • the Press-Centrale Telegraph Agency and
  • the German Telegraph Dr. Rudolph Dammert GmbH.

From 1916 it gradually belonged to the group of the German national politician and business leader Alfred Hugenberg (1865-1951).

On January 1, 1934, the National Socialists nationalized the Telegraph Union and the Wolffsche Telegraphenbüro (WTB) under the leadership of Goebbels confidante Alfred-Ingemar Berndt, and merged both of them into the state German news office they had founded . The Graf Reischach newspaper service was also located in the house of the Telegraph Union (then in the house of the German news office).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graf Reischach newspaper service together with the Telegraphen-Union: Ten years of Graf Reischach newspaper service . In: Zeitungswissenschaft , 1943, vol. 18, edition 6/7, p. 274.
    Reischach, Graf . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1934, 1, p. 2019. "NSZeitgsdienst" (address of the Graf Reischach newspaper service from the time together with the DNB).
    News and information offices . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1934, 2, p. 372. “Deutsches Nachrichtenbüro” (headquarters of the DNB).