Werner Raykowski

Werner Raykowski (born July 4, 1911 in Gießen ; † April 11, 2006 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat during the Nazi era and director of the publishing house.

Life

Raykowski attended the Realgymnasium in Giessen and studied German , history and economics at the Universities of Giessen , Gent and Berlin from 1931 to 1935 . He joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1933 and in 1934 received a position at the Volksbund for Germanness Abroad . On March 9, 1939, he moved to the Foreign Ministry and became the personal press officer of the Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop .

Raykowski was arrested by the Americans in Bad Gastein in a group of AA employees who had fled at the end of the Second World War . Nothing is known about his interrogation, internment and denazification . In the Federal Republic of Germany he became the publishing director at Societäts-Verlag and at Gruner & Jahr . At the beginning of the eighties he ran a press service in the federal capital Bonn .

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , p. 582.
• Peter Longerich : Propagandists at War. The press department of the Foreign Office under Ribbentrop. Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54111-0 ( Studies on Contemporary History 33), (At the same time: Munich, Univ., Diss., 1983).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Longerich, p. 161.