Friedrich Franz Bauer
Friedrich Franz Bauer ( * 1903 in Pfaffenhofen, † 1972) was a German photographer.
After an apprenticeship as a photographer in the studio of his parents in Oberpfaffenhofen he trained in Munich, among others, at the Bavarian State School for Photography beings on. In the 1920s and early 1930s, he has received numerous awards for his photographic work. In 1930, he opened with his younger brother Karl Ferdinand Bauer ( * 1904), a photo studio in Munich. In the era of National Socialism, he became known through photographs for the Nazi propaganda.
F. F. Bauer GmbH
In 1922, the brothers of the NSDAP and the SA joined. After the prohibition and turn the waiver she joined the party again at ( Karl Ferdinand in 1929, Friedrich Franz, 1930 ), in July 1933 the SS through personal contacts Friedrich Franz Bauer to Heinrich Himmler advanced her quickly to official Nazi photographer. Due to financial difficulties the photo studio was in 1937 in the " F. F. Bauer GmbH " converted, in which the SS held the majority and the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office ( WVHA ) under stood. In 1939, the offices were moved from Munich to Berlin. In Berlin put Bauer in the Reich Security Main Office on Prinz- Albrecht-Strasse 8 an official SS archive.
Tensions between the photographer brothers who always clung as protégés Heinrich Himmler to their news and press photography, and the person responsible in the WVHA which imaginary to use the GmbH primarily as Bildverlag, led in 1942 to the dismissal of the FF Bauer GmbH from the authority of the WVHA. Friedrich Franz Bauer was using his contacts to prevent disembarking by Himmler and Oswald Pohl took over the company again even while Pohl instead founded the Greater German photo service that was renamed after half a year in September 1942 in Völkischer art publishing.
Work
Before 1932, Friedrich Franz Bauer made a name as an art photographer. He also directed the picture coverage of the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1930 as well as the Salzburg Festival in 1932 as SS - photographer, he was known primarily for his Nazi propaganda photographs. Architectural photography and portraits of prominent Nazis and SS leaders; Moreover, he was in public as " Himmler's personal photographer ." In particular, recordings from the Dachau concentration camp, the " The Truth about Dachau " under the title already appeared in 1933 in the Munich Illustrated Press and disperse by a positively tuned Article emerging rumors about the concentration camp should and recordings that were made in 1936 for the magazine Illustrated observer had made him the dubious documentary of the early Nazi camp system. Bauer was present at all major events; such as during the invasion of Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938 at the site of Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler.
Swell
- Hermann Kaienburg: The economy of the SS, pp. 194ff, 488 metropolitan -Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936411-04-2. .