Ewald von Demandowsky

Ewald von Demandowsky (October 21 1906 in Berlin - October 7 1946) was a German Reichsfilmdramaturg operative and head of production at Tobis in the Third Reich.

Already a member of the Nazi Party, in 1930 von Demandowsky was appointed cultural-political editor of the Völkischer Beobachter. He became head of the production company Tobis in 1939.[1] He produced a number of notorious Nazi propaganda films, including Ohm Krüger and Ich klage an.[1] Commissioned as an officer in the Schutzstaffel, von Demandowsky had a love affair with rising star Hildegard Knef in the latter part of World War II.[2]

In May 1945 von Demandowsky surrendered and was transferred to a prisoner of war in Poland but soon after was released to return to Berlin[3]. In 1946 he was arrested by US military police and handed over to the Soviet military administration. von Demandowsky was tried and sentenced to death by a Soviet Military Tribunal and executed on 7 October 1946 in Berlin-Lichtenberg.

References

  1. ^ a b Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 97
  2. ^ Hans-Michael Bock, Tim Bergfelder, The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema, Berghahn Books, 2009, p. 250
  3. ^ Schröder, C, 'Der Mut der frühen Jahre'. In Der Tagesspiegel, 10 March 2009, P23