50 years of German broadcasting - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1973 - 30 Pfennig

On the historical development of broadcasting in Germany in its early days, the following details can be found in the Handwritten Book of the Postal Service, 1953 edition: "On October 29, 1923, the new entertainment broadcasting service begins with the preparation of musical performances by wireless telephone proclaimed the German Reichspost on 23.10.1923 by Wolffs telegraph office. At the birthplace of the German Broadcasting Corporation, the former Ministry of Public Service, a new service branch of the German Reichspost had come into being. From the first radio transmitter in Königs Wusterhausen developed the radio transmission and radio network, which was made available to the program companies to broadcast their programs. In accordance with the state political and cultural structure of the Reich, nine independent private companies formed for program operation in the first few years. In 1926 the tenth company was Deutsche Welle GmbH in Berlin, which broadcast its broadcasts via the long-wave transmitter in Königs Wusterhausen. For the establishment of this society the German Reichspost had provided no means. It exercised alone the radio transmission enterprise (until 1945) and was sole carrier of the radio sovereignty. In 1926 an umbrella organization of the majority of the broadcasting companies was founded as Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, which centrally directed the broadcasting companies and supervised their economic operation. The German Reichspost had acquired 51% of the share capital and thus secured an economic influence. From 1926 to 1933 there was a Rundfunkkommissar, which was to secure its nonpartisan management of broadcasting according to special provisions of the Reich Ministry of Posts. The post office had nothing to do with the program of broadcasting, that is with the material content of the broadcasts. Their tasks were in addition to the administrative activity (permits, fees, etc.) in the technical field alone. The radio was in the hands of the Reich. When the law on the telegraph system of the German Reich of 6.4.1892 was revised on March 7, 1908, the official justification given for it left no doubt that the telegraph shelf also included radiotelegraphy. After the First World War, countless radio transmission and radio reception systems caused disturbances in public radio communications. This disorder in the ether forced the government of the Reich to adopt the Ordinance for the Protection of Radiocommunication of 8.3.1924, which was in force until 1929. Adapted to the former World Telegraph Contract, the Law on Telecommunications Installations (FAG) of 14.1.1928 expressly set the telecommunications authority of the Reich for radio equipment. From the telegraph shelf was the telecommunications law and within this the radio sovereignty. The German Reichspost alone was entitled to set up and operate radio systems. Others could expressly grant the right to do so by the Reichspostminister. "