Hadamowski, Eugen

Eugen Hadamowski was born in the Friedenau district of Berlin in the family of engineer Paul Alfred Hadamowski and his wife Emma Carolina. In 1919 he graduated from high school with a major in chemistry and mechanical engineering. In school years he was enrolled in the illegal " Black Reichswehr ." Since 1921 he was a member of the Olympia Sports Union ( Volunteer Guard Regiment of Greater Berlin ). In 1924 he completed a training course for infantryman. In subsequent years, he worked as a car mechanic and locksmith in Austria, Italy, Spain and South Africa. In 1928 he returned to Berlin.

January 12, 1930 joined the NSDAP , stood out in the party propaganda service in Munich. In 1931, Joseph Goebbels appointed Khadamovsky as head of the Berlin branch of the Imperial Association of German Broadcasters. In 1932, he was appointed head of the department at the Imperial Propaganda Directorate of the NSDAP in Munich. He was considered an expert on means of forming public opinion. January 30, 1933, when Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Reich Chancellor, issued a radio report on the march and torchlight procession of the SA and thereby acquainted the audience with the events in Berlin. ^[2]

From February 10 to March 4, 1933 he organized a technically perfect live broadcast of Hitler's speeches at rallies and on the radio. ^[3] On May 1, 1933, the head of broadcasts ( German: Reichssendeleiter ) at the Imperial Broadcasting Company . July 8, 1933 becomes vice president of the Imperial Chamber of Broadcasting . Under the protection of Goebbels, he had great powers, which made him one of the most influential leaders of Nazi broadcasting.

In the first of his books published in 1933, “Propaganda and the National Power: Organization of Public Opinion for National Politics” ( German: Propaganda und nationale Macht: die Organization der derööffentlichen Meinung für die nationale Politik ), Hadamowski wrote: ^[4]

. Hadamowski was the driving force behind the cleansing of the radio system from “unwanted elements” and the Jews, as well as the mastermind of the trial of the broadcasting leaders of the Weimar Republic, the so-called “broadcasting process” (1934-1935). On August 16, 1933, Hadamowski issued an order that said: ^[5]

. In December 1933, he banned the discussion of Oswald Spengler ’s book “Years of Decisions” in a special broadcast, saying that in January Professor Boimler would read three reports on the radio on the topic: “Oswald Spengler’s Sunset - The Rise of National Socialism”. ^[6] On March 22, 1935, he opened the first telecast in the world, on which he declared: ^[7]

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Since May 1935, head of the television department at the Imperial Broadcasting Chamber . October 11, 1935 introduced a ban on broadcasting jazz music on the radio in the territory of the Reich , ^[8] as "degenerate Negro-Jewish music." ^[9]

Since 1936 in the propaganda department of the Wehrmacht. He was married to Hilda Freytag (3 sons, 1 daughter). From 1939 to 1943 he was a broadcasting inspector at OKV . With the beginning of World War II, he organized the broadcasting of reports from the front. He participated in the Polish campaign as a company commander, was awarded the Iron Cross of the 2nd class. From February to August 1940 he led the 3rd Directorate (Broadcasting) in the Ministry of Propaganda . In September 1940, as a war correspondent over London, he was awarded the 1st Class Iron Cross. In 1941, Chief Lieutenant of the Luftwaffe Communications Troops. Since the end of 1941, the deputy manager of the Ministry of Propaganda Werner Naumann .

On June 12, 1942, he was appointed head of the personnel department at the Ministry of Propaganda, due to personal disagreements with Goebbels, he was removed from radio control and his career began to decline. In November 1943 he transferred to the service in the Wehrmacht . October 20, 1944 enlisted in the reserve of the SS Troops in the rank of Obersturmfuhrer . On January 13, 1945, the company commander of the 7th Grenadier Regiment of the SS 4th Police Grenadier Division of the SS . He died on March 1, 1945 during a counterattack on the village of Kholkeviz in Pomerania, occupied by Soviet troops.

March 3, 1945 Goebbels wrote in his diary: ^[10]

• Iron Cross , 1st grade (1940)
• Iron Cross , 2nd Class (1939)
• 1st Class Military Merit Cross
• Golden party badge of the NSDAP
• Medal of Merit in the NSDAP in bronze

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• Hitler kämpft um den Frieden Europas (1936)
• Hilfsarbeiter Nr. 50,000 (1938)
• Weltgeschichte im Sturmschritt (1939)
• Blitzmarsch nach Warschau (1940)

• Zalessky K. A. Who was who in the Third Reich. - M .: AST , 2002 .-- 944 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-271-05091-2 .

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