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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by Halfdan S. » 15 Feb 2010, 22:29

Hugo Fischer you mean - but that was before Hadamovsky ...

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by Halfdan S. » 15 Feb 2010, 22:43

I think Willi Krämer might be the last Stabsleiter der RPL ...

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by Pitino » 15 Feb 2010, 23:59

Halfdan S.,
-Yes, I think Hugo Fischer served as Stabsleiter der RPL from (1938-1942), but I was referring to the Head of Deutsche Presse, Erich Fischer. It was a stab in the dark anyway!!! Yo may indeed have something with Willi Kramer. I know that he was the Last Reichshauptamtsleiter named by Gobbels in the RPL. Kramer also served as Vertreter des Walter Tiessler since (1941). Who served as Stabsleiter before Hugo Fischer? I know that Hugo Fischer was appointed Stellvertretender Reichspropagandaleiter der NSDAP on (April 4,1933), but I do not have him being appointed RPL Stabsleiter until (1938). We need to come out with a correct list for this post. I don't think I have ever seen one!!!

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by bytwerk » 01 Mar 2010, 03:38

Hadamovsky served as Stabsleiter until relieved by a Goebbels order of 31 August 1944. He had had growing conflicts with Goebbels, who thought he was spending too much time writing a silly book, among other things. This was during the last efforts to release manpower for the war effort, and the Propaganda Ministry essentially took over the Reichspropagandaleitung. Naumann from the Promi became the new Stabsleiter. Here are my notes from Goebbels's "Erlass über totale Kriegsmassnahmen in der Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP und im Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda" of 31 August 1944:

“1.) Ich berufe den Staatssekretär im RMVP, Pg. Dr. Naumann zum Stabsleiter in der RPL der NSDAP.

2.) Unbeschadet des Aufgabenkreises und der Stellung des Stabsleiters der RPL, Pg. Hadamovsky, übernimmt Stabsleiter Pg. Dr. Naumann im Rahmen des totalen Kriegseinsatzes die Führung des Stabsamtes der RPL.

3.) Oberdienstleiter Pg. Wächter tritt als Sachbearbeiter für Angelegenheiten der RPL zu Stabsleiter Pg. Dr. Naumann.

4.) Das Hauptkulturamt in der RPL under Leitung des Oberdienstleiters Pg. Cerff wird Stabsleiter Pg. Dr. Naumann direkt unterstellt.

5.) Dem Stabsamt in der RPL bleiben weiter unterstellt: Das Hauptamt Verwaltung mit dem Ämtern Filmverwaltung und Verwaltung des Reichsauatozuges Deutschland;
das Hauptamt Reichsautozug Deutschland;
das Personalamt;
das Mobreferant."

NS 18/1057 (Bundesarchiv)

I have a lot of information on Hadamovsky, should there be further questions.

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by Halfdan S. » 01 Mar 2010, 13:25

Thanks a lot, bytwerk, very informative :-) My interest is really the RPL and its leadership at the end of the war.

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by Heimatschuss » 01 Mar 2010, 20:08

Hello,
Pitino wrote:-Did Hadamovsky die at Rummelsberg or at Holkewiese, Eastern Pomerania?
Pitino
Hadamowky was killed in Hölkewiese, County Rummelsburg. The village is about 10 km SW of Rummelsburg
http://www.hoelkewiese.de/Krieg,%20Fluc ... ewiese.htm
See particularly this site
http://www.hoelkewiese.de/Krieg,%20Fluc ... allen.html
about the excavation of his remains (and several other war dead).

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by Pitino » 02 Mar 2010, 00:45

bytwerk,
-Kudos on the Hadamovsky stabsleiter info!!!! You say that you have a lot of info on Hadamovsky then I have a couple of questions for you. 1.When was he replaced as Reichssendeleiter und Geshaftsfuhrer der Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft? 2.Who replaced him in those posts? 3.What are the specific dates that he served as Leiter der Abteilung III (Rundfunk) im RMVP? 4. Also, do you have the specific dates that he served as Vizeprasident der Reichsrundfunkkammer (I have Nov. ?,1933-May ?,1935)?

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by bytwerk » 02 Mar 2010, 05:22

I'm more interested in his activities in the RPL, so I don't know all of the radio details, but he was Reichssendeiter into 1942. For those interested, some of my other biographical notes.

First, his Lebenslauf, provided on 14.10.1944 in his SS application (from his Berlin Document Center file):

“Geboren am 14.12.04 in Berlin, arisch, Parteigenosse seit 1.12.1930. Eltern:
Vater Ingenieur Paul Alfred Hadamovsky, Mutter: Emma Karoline, Auguste geb. Wildgrube. Seit 1921 Angehöriger der getarnten Nachfolge-Organisation des Schutzregiments Berlin (Olympia).

1924 sörgfältige infanteristische Ausbildung als Gardeschütze, 5. Komp. I. R. 9 Check: General Drogand. 1941 in der Luftnachrichtentruppe Oberleutnant. Zur Fliegertruppe versetzt. E.K. II in Polenfeldzug (Leutnant und Kompanieführer), E.K. I nach dem ersten Kriegsberichterflug über London September 1940.

Neben meinem Amt als Reichssendeleiter, das ich 1933 bis 1942 inne hatte, seit 1936 Mitwirkung im Aufbau der Propagandatruppen der Wehrmacht. Rundfunknachprüfer im OKW. von 1939 bis 1943. Nach Proklamation des totalen Krieges Vorchlag an Dr. Goebbels, die bisher getrennt besetzten Ämter des Propagandaministeriums und der Reichpropagandaleitung der NSDAP in einer Hand zu vereinigen. Hierfür SS-Brigadeführer Dr. Naumann, Staatssekretär des Propagandaministeriums, gleichszeitig als Stabsleiter der Reichspropagandaleitung vorgeschlagen. Genehmigung der Reichsleiter Borman und Goebels [sic] zu dieser Lösung erhalten. Daher ab sorfort frei für Fronteinsatz.

Verheiratet mit Hilde geb. Freytag, 3 Söhne, 1 Tochter.”

There are lots of references to Hadamovsky in Goebbels's diaries, alternating between approval and disapproval. On 6 January 1944, for example:

“In einer längeren Unterredung weise ich aufs schärfste Hadamovsky zurecht. Hadamovsky hat sich in den letzten Monaten kaum im Ministerium sehen lassen. Er ist immer auf der Achse gewesen, hat draußen im Lande gereden, hat ein Buch über die Hunnenstürme geschrieben und dabei die Führung der Reichspropagandaleitung volkommen vernachlässigt. Infolgedessen ist hier ein ähnlicher Zustand wieder eingerissen wie ehedem unter Hugo Fischer. Ich werde mir jedenfalls eine weitere Entwicklung der Dinge in diesem Sinne nicht gefallen lassen. Ich mache Hadamovsky unzweideutig klar, daß er sich entweder mehr um sein Amt zu bekümmern oder sein Amt wieder zu Verfügung zu stellen hat.”

[18 August 1944]: “Bormann hat sich einverstanden erklärt, daß Naumann auch die Stabsleitung der RPL übernimmt. Damit wird Hadamovsky praktisch überflüssig. Ich möchte ihm am liebsten der Wehrmacht zur Verfügung stellen.”

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by Heimatschuss » 17 Jan 2015, 23:35

Hello,

here's an interesting newspaper clipping from 1943 that sheds a bit of light on Hadamovsky's life between the end of his military service and his entry into politics. An episode he completely omitted in the CV handed in to the SS that Randall Bytwerk posted above. In those years he traveled amongst others Italy, Spain and North Africa and worked in a variety of odd jobs, the years 1927/1928 he spent in a suburb of Bask town Bilbao (Northern Spain) as a lock smith and fitter for example. On other occasions he had work as a journalist he said.

It's also was news to me that in 1943 he served in the OKW where he did quality evalutions of radio broadcasts produced by the Wehrmacht propaganda companies. Though, on a second thought, that may be covered under the term Rundfunknachprüfer im OKW appearing in the previous CV already.
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Badener Zeitung of Nov 6, 1943; 64. Jahrgang; No. 88; Baden near Vienna; p.2
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno? ... =2&zoom=39

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by freddiefro » 14 Feb 2015, 17:16

Here's a few early photos of Hadamovsky. (Source: NARA)

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Re: Eugen Hadamowsky

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Post by Wim » 23 Aug 2016, 12:40

Stare-Czarnowo (PL) - Hadamowky Eugen.jpg
Here the foto of the Gravestone at Stare-Czarnowo Neumark.

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