Background
Demandowsky was born in Berlin.
Demandowsky was born in Berlin.
Two years later he became head of Tobis Filmkunst, then the second largest German film production company after Universum Film AG. He produced a number of notorious Nazi propaganda films, including Ohm Krüger and Ich klage an. Commissioned as a Steamship officer, von Demandowsky had a love affair with rising star Hildegard Knef in the latter part of World World War World War II According to Knef, Demandowsky assigned to the Volkssturm militia at the end of the war fled from Berlin, he surrendered and was transferred to a prisoner of war by the Polish Armed Forces but soon after was released to return to Berlin. In 1946 he was again arrested by United States military police and handed over to the Soviet Military Administration.
Demandowsky was tried and sentenced to death by a Soviet Military Tribunal and shot on 7 October 1946 in Berlin-Lichtenberg.
In the early 1990s Demandowsky was rehabilitated by the public prosecutor of the Russian Federation (main military prosecutor) in accordance with article 3 letter a of the Acting of the Russian Federation on the rehabilitation of victims of political reprisals of 18 October 1991.
Already a member of the Nazi Party in 1930, he gained an employment as a cultural-political editor of the Völkischer Beobachter newspaper.