Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst
The General German Intelligence Service ( ADN) was next to Panorama DDR is the only legal news and picture agency in the German Democratic Republic. He took a monopoly in the supply of almost all newspapers and on radio and television of the GDR with news, reports, articles and photos about regional character. With around sixty agencies of other countries, a message exchange took place, resulting in the same time also resulted in the filter function for the GDR media. ADN was officially the Council of Ministers of the GDR, but was guided and supervised by the central party apparatus of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Until 1989, the ADN had approximately 1,400 employees.
History
The ADN was founded in October 1946 with the approval of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany by several publishing houses, newspapers and radio stations as a limited company. In April 1953, the ADN GmbH was dissolved on the instructions of the SED leadership and transformed into a state-run news agency. In 1956, the independent "central image location Berlin" was incorporated under the name ADN central image in the agency. After the Statute of the ADN 1966 goals and tasks from the SED program, the decisions of the SED Central Committee and the decrees, orders and decisions of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of the GDR were.
In the fall of 1961, after the construction of the wall, it had to accept the ADN that its employees were excluded from the West German press conference. It was not until 30 years later, the ADN correspondents were reinstated as full members of the BPK. Until the late 1970s, the " basic service " in the ADN, which was drawn from the areas domestic and abroad was spread over teletype items to the buyers. In 1979 the conversion to electronic word processing and text messaging with the help of technology the Japanese company " Omron ". From 1977 until the forthcoming end of the GDR in 1989, Günter Pötschke ( 1929-2006 ) Demolisher AlDirektor of ADN.
In May 1992, the ADN was sold with even 254 employees at the German Depeschendienst (ddp). This historical archive of ADN central image with about seven million photographs dating back to the early years of photography was transferred to the Federal Archives in Koblenz.
Areas
The area encompassed the areas of foreign policy and economy of other countries, including the Federal Republic of Germany, all other areas at the international level in the field were treated with domestic, politics, economy, culture, education / science and sports was subdivided into departments. There was a report service and a special service for the economic cooperation of the CMEA countries. Was part of Works from 15 regional offices of the East German districts, including Berlin. ADN had a worldwide network of correspondents. The overseas offices were usually occupied by married couples who took their selection to the approval of the Party apparatus. A further area was responsible, the international service of ADN, which were developed based on the basic service and modified for the specific needs of foreign customers and translated. The Information supplied almost exclusively the SED leadership and the government with confidential reports from the Federal Republic of Germany and abroad. For local news, press articles and radio and television broadcasts were mainly evaluated or made confidential special correspondent reports.
The employees of the ADN was in Altthymen in Fürstenberg / Havel the Good Mühlenhof as captive resort available.
Central image
Central image (abbreviated ZB) was founded in 1952. She was henceforth to reunification, the only site of the GDR. It was in 1956 a segment of the ADN. 1991 Central image was sold to the dpa and persists today as an independent photo and picture agency under the umbrella of dpa. The archive of central image was transferred to the Federal Archives.