Ministerialdirektor Dr. Hans Georg Fritzsche (21.04.1900 – 27.09.1953)
Born on April 21, 1900, in Bochum, Hans was the son of a postal clerk. He served in the First World War and later became involved with right-wing press agencies during the Weimar Republic. By 1932, Fritzsche had become the chief of the German government press agency under Chancellor Franz von Papen. This agency was later integrated into the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda when Hitler rose to power. In 1938, Fritzsche was appointed head of the Press Division of the ministry. Throughout World War II, he was a prominent radio commentator and briefly served on the Eastern Front. By November 1942, he was heading the Radio Division of Goebbels’ ministry, overseeing the political organization of German radio broadcasts.
In April 1945, Fritzsche remained in Berlin and witnessed the suicides of Hitler and Eva Braun in the Führerbunker. After Göbbels’ suicide, he moved to the Propaganda Ministry’s office, drafted a surrender letter, and attempted to surrender Berlin to the Red Army. On May 2, 1945, he read the capitulation order on the radio before being captured by the Soviets. Fritzsche helped identify the remains of the Göbbels family and was subsequently imprisoned, first in Moscow and then at the Nuremberg Trials, where he was charged but later acquitted. However, a German denazification court sentenced him to nine years in prison. He was pardoned in 1950 and remarried. Hans Fritzsche died of cancer on September 27, 1953, in Cologne.
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