Fritz Eberhard

Fritz Eberhard ( born October 2, 1896 in Dresden when Adolf Arthur Hellmuth Egon Freiherr von Rauschenplat, † March 30, 1982 in Berlin) was a German journalist, social democratic politicians and ISK - member anti-fascist resistance fighters. Eberhard was from 1949 to 1958 director of the South German Radio.

Life

Hellmuth von Rauschenplat

Rauschenplat came from a noble family, which is documented already in the Middle Ages in the Bishopric of Hildesheim. He took 1914 on a study of political science in Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Tübingen, which he - interrupted by three years of participation in the war of 1915 to 1918 - 1920 with a PhD. During this time he became the followers of the philosophical ideas of Robert Wilbrandt and Leonard Nelson and closed in 1921, the International Youth Federation ( IJB ) to, from 1926, the International Socialist Combat League (ISK) emerged. In 1922 he also joined the SPD in ( from which he retired in 1924 first again ) and the Young Socialists and taught at the ISK - school Walke Mill in Melsungen economy. In the editorial of the newspaper of the ISK, The spark that he was in 1932-33 in charge of economic policy issues.

Resistance and Exile

In 1933 after the takeover of the NSDAP had Rauschenplat because of an arrest warrant and took into hiding here also his later name Fritz Eberhard. From 1934 he headed the illegal ISK structures in Germany, was the establishment of the Independent Socialist Union ( USG ) participated, worked closely with the organized in the ITF Railwaymen's resistance groups to Hans Jahn and kept contact with the exiled leadership of the ISK to Willi Eichler in London. At the same time he wrote until their ban in 1937 under a pseudonym articles for Stuttgart Sunday newspaper. 1937, after the destruction of the ISK - underground structures by the Gestapo, Eberhard was able to London to escape, here he fell because of his advocacy of direct action against Nazi Germany into conflict with Eichler and separated, together with Hilde Meisel and Hans Lehnert 1939 by ISK. In the following years, Eberhard with Waldemar von Knoeringen and Richard Lowenthal worked closely, as the sender of the European revolution and worked as a journalist for various newspapers.

Return to Germany

In April 1945, Eberhard was able to return to Germany with the help of the OSS, in October of the same year he joined the SPD in return for which he was elected in 1946 in the state parliament of Württemberg -Baden. At the same time, he took part in the reconstruction of a democratic broadcasting system. He was one of 1948/49, at the Parliamentary Council, where he played a leading role especially in the inclusion of the right to conscientious objection in the Basic Law. From 1949 to 1958 Eberhard headed then as director of the South German Radio and was from 1961 to 1968 Director and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Journalism of the University of Berlin. Eberhard 1979 was awarded jointly with Axel Eggebrecht with the Carl-von - Ossietzky - Medal.

Fritz Eberhard was buried at Forest Cemetery Zehlendorf.

Works

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In the Socialist waiting: Under the name of Fritz Kempf or the abbreviation " FK " He published between 1934 and 1939 on 71 products