With the film law dated from 16 February 1934, the position of a Reichsfilmdramaturg (the Reich's dramatic adviser for films) was attached to the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

The Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was Nazi Germany's ministry that enforced Nazi Party ideology in Germany and regulated its culture and society. Founded on March 13, 1933, by Adolf Hitler's new National Socialist government, the Ministry was headed by Dr...

. His task was to pre-check all planned film productions.

Contrary to the Film Review Office, which censored

Censorship

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 films already produced, the Reichsfilmdramaturg should prevent that inappropriate films being produced. It was therefore only possible to start the shooting of a film after the film's plot, manuscript and screenplay were approved by him.

The film industry was o.k. with the pre-check, as it prevented commercial damages through later censorship. The pre-check also allowed to get a cheap credit from the Filmkreditbank. This bank was set up to help financing films.

The following persons were Reichsfilmdramaturg:

• Willi Krause (kown as Peter Hagen as writer), since February 1934
• Hans-Jürgen Nierentz (1936–37)
• Fritz Hippler
  Fritz Hippler
  Fritz Hippler was a German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude ....
  
  
• Kurt Frowein
• Ewald von Demandowsky
  Ewald von Demandowsky
  Ewald von Demandowsky was a German Reichsfilmdramaturg operative and head of production at Tobis in the Third Reich....