1. Hans Bredow is regarded as the "father of German broadcasting".
15 Facts About Hans Bredow
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Hans Bredow's mother died in his early childhood and the family moved to Rendsburg in 1889.
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Hans Bredow began to study electrical engineering in Kothen in 1900 and started to work for AEG in Riga after completing his studies.
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Hans Bredow was involved in the planning of a Telefunken worldwide transmitting system and the construction of the Nauen Transmitter Station, which provided wireless communication with the United States via the Sayville Transmitter station and with the German colonies like the Kamina Transmitter in Togo.
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In 1908 Hans Bredow became executive director of Telefunken in Berlin.
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Hans Bredow volunteered for the German signal corps in World War I and organized an entertainment program at the Western Front by using military radio equipment.
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On 1 April 1921 Hans Bredow was appointed State Secretary for telecommunications.
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On 16 November 1919 Hans Bredow gave a speech about his vision of a nationwide wireless transmission of speech and music at Berlin's Urania, and in September 1923 the first German public broadcasting transmitter started operating in Berlin.
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In June 1926 Hans Bredow left the Post administration and became chairman of the administrative board of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, the federation of broadcasting companies in Germany.
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On 30 January 1933, the day of the Machtergreifung of the Nazis in Germany, Hans Bredow submitted his resignation and was replaced by August Kruckow on 15 February 1933.
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Hans Bredow protested against these arrests in several telegrams addressed to President Paul von Hindenburg, Hermann Goring, Franz von Papen and Hitler himself.
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On 9 August 1933 Hans Bredow sent a telegram to Hitler requesting the release of his former co-workers and explicitly asked to be treated like his colleagues in case they were kept in custody.
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Hans Bredow retired in 1939 and established a historical radio archive in Wiesbaden, which would become the predecessor of the German Broadcasting Archive.
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From 1945 to 1953 Hans Bredow was chairman of the supervisory board of the Buderus ironworks and the "Edelstahlwerke Rochling-Buderus" and a member of the supervisory board of Philipp Holzmann AG.
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Hans Bredow made several proposals for the restructuring of broadcasting in Germany and was chairman of the administrative board of the Hessian Broadcasting Company from 1949 to 1951.