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Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk

Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR; Northwest German Broadcasting) was the organization responsible for public broadcasting in the German Länder of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from 22 September 1945 to 31 December 1955. Until 1954, it was also responsible for broadcasting in West Berlin. NWDR was a founder member of the consortium of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany, the ARD.

Country

Germany

Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, North Rhine-Westphalia

West Berlin, Germany

22 September 1945 (1945-09-22)

31 December 1955 (1955-12-31) (10 years, 100 days)

NDR and WDR

On 1 January 1956, NWDR was succeeded by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

History[edit]

Pre-war[edit]

Broadcasting in what was to become NWDR's post-war transmission area was initiated in the early 1920s:

NWDR1 – a station for the whole NWDR area, broadcast over FM and .

mediumwave

NWDR2 (or NWDR North) – a regional station on FM for north Germany, broadcast from Hamburg.

NWDR3 (or NWDR West) – a regional program on FM for North Rhine-Westphalia, broadcast from Cologne.

In 1955, the NWDR had three radio stations:


NWDR was also the most active participant in ARD's Das Erste, the joint German public television service.

NDR Chor

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

NDR Radiophilharmonie

Research Centre for the History of Broadcasting in Northern Germany

Hans-Ulrich Wagner, Return in Uniform. Walter Albert Eberstadt and the Beginning of Radio Hamburg, in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, August 7, 2017. :10.23691/jgo:article-114.en.v1

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