Siegfried Hänicke

[Richard Murphy]

Evening all, doing a spot of work on von Chappuis's successor at XXXVIII Korps and am mystified by an entry on the ABR listings following his retirement at the end of September 1932;

3/33-6/35 Intendant des Ostmarckrundfunks.

Obviously it has something to do with Austria and radios (?), but what is this position (I'm thinking civilian.).

Regards,

Rich

[redmarb]

Intendant means head/chief/executive/manager or some word like that. I don't know what kind of rank he had, but maybe he was the leader of some radio/communication center. I dont know what's meaned with Ostmarck, maybe the name of the center or location. It's not Austria, because that's called Österreich in German.

Regards, Redmar

[kpp]

he was manager of the Austrian broadcast company

[Richard Murphy]

Apparently, from e-mails I've recieved (Thanks very much Shawn and Bernhard.) he was managing Director of a radio station in Königsberg!

Hänicke was born in Konstanz. Is this also in East Prussia?

Regards,

Rich.

[Andy H]

There's a Konstanz south of Stuggart in Germany on the banks of the Rhine, not sure about one in the former East Prussia.

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