"Fritzsche at the Nuremberg trials"@en . . "160"^^ . . . . "1900-04-21"^^ . . . . . "Journalist"@en . . "Hildegard Fritzsche"@en . . . "1953-09-27"^^ . "Fritzsche was born in Bochum (a city in the Ruhr Area) and served in the German army in 1917. Post-war he studied briefly at a number of universities before becoming a journalist for the Hugenberg Press and then involved in the new mass media of the radio, working for the German government. In September 1932 he was made head of the Drahtloser Dienst (the wireless news service). On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP. Under Joseph Goebbels' Reich Ministry he continued to head the radio department before being promoted to the News Section at the Ministry. In mid-1938 he became deputy to Alfred Berndt at the German Press Division. Responsible for controlling German news, the agency was also called the Home or Domestic Press Division. In December 1938 he was made chief of the Home Press Division. In May 1942 Goebbels took personal control of the division, and Fritzsche returned to radio work for the Ministry as Plenipotentiary for the Political Organization of the Greater German Radio and head of the Radio Division of the Ministry."@en . . . "Hans Georg Fritzsche"@en . . "German"@en . "Ministerialdirektor in the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda"@en . . . "Cologne, West Germany"@en . . "Bochum, Germany"@en . . . "Hans Fritzsche"@en . . "Fritzsche was born in Bochum (a city in the Ruhr Area) and served in the German army in 1917. Post-war he studied briefly at a number of universities before becoming a journalist for the Hugenberg Press and then involved in the new mass media of the radio, working for the German government. In September 1932 he was made head of the Drahtloser Dienst (the wireless news service). On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP."@en .