Adolf Hieber

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Adolf Hieber (born March 15, 1898 in Munich ; † December 25, 1977 there ) was a music dealer and music publisher and second mayor of the city of Munich. He was a member of the Bavarian Party .

Career

Adolf Hieber learned his trade in the music shop of his father Max Hieber and campaigned early on for the interests of the industry. In 1924 he was elected chairman of the Bavarian Music Dealers Association, which was dissolved in 1933. He showed political courage under the Nazi regime. He sold his publishing rights to the Badenweiler-Marsch by Georg Prince because the march to Adolf Hitler was one of favorite pieces was played at many official events. Hieber wanted nothing more to do with his successful publishing work as an opponent of the Nazi regime.

During the Second World War , Hieber was a member of the board of the Assortment Chamber, a body of the Reich Chamber of Music. In 1945 he was obliged to lead a city defense and thus escaped being drafted into the military. Shortly before the end of the war, he was ordered to have all Isar bridges blown up in order to slow down the advancing American troops. He not only resisted the orders of the SA / SS at great risk to his life, but even had the warheads under the bridges secretly removed.

After the capitulation, Hieber and a few colleagues took the initiative and, as the “working committee for the Bavarian book trade”, took care of the “review, cleaning up and reorganization of the entire publishing business and all branches of the book trade”. He presented himself as a proven opponent of Hitler and became a selfless helper of the occupying power in the democratization of cultural life.

In 1948 the city of Munich elected him to the city council. In the elections in 1952 and 1956 he was confirmed in office. In addition to his political activities in the Bavarian Party , he initiated the re-establishment of the Bavarian Music Dealers Association and saved the remnants of the assets of the relief fund from Leipzig. He was elected second chairman of the German Association of Music Industry.

In 1956 he was elected second mayor of the city of Munich with a convincing majority. One of his first official acts was to represent the city at the Orlando di Lasso ceremony, which took place with the official participation of the state and the church. In the same year he also became the second chairman of the Bavarian Retail Association.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Adolf Hieber in: Who's Who in Germany - The German Who's Who. 5th edition. Who's Who Book & Publishing, Ottobrunn 1974, ISBN 3-921220-05-X , p. 679.
  2. ^ Biographical data from Adolf Hieber in: Melos / NZ für Musik , Volume 4, Schott., 1978, Includes music., Page 148
personal data
SURNAME Hieber, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music publisher, Second Mayor of the City of Munich
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1977
Place of death Munich