[3] The company was established in Berlin on 15 May 1925 with a start capital of 100,000 Reichsmark[1][4] as an umbrella organisation[4] by nine regional broadcasters – that is to say, all of the German radio stations other than the Deutsche Stunde in Bayern [5] – serving the various states of the Weimar Republic.

[6][7] From 1926, a majority share was held by the state-owned Deutsche Reichspost authority, represented by RF engineer and Reichspostministerium official Hans Bredow as chairman in the rank of a Reichs-Rundfunk-Kommissar.

[1] In the course of the Gleichschaltung process after the Machtergreifung in 1933 the RRG was nationalized by the Nazi government and was used extensively by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels[12] to dictate radio programming.

[14] On 30 January 1933, while the new Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick enforced the live broadcast of the torchlight parades, the RRG chairman Hans Bredow resigned and was replaced by Eugen Hadamovsky.

From 9 July 1940 onwards all Reichssender aired the same uniform nationwide program, which ended with the occupation of the Haus des Rundfunks by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945.