Fritz Piersig

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Fritz Piersig (* 22. December 1900 in Aschersleben , † 18th January 1978 in Bremen ) was a German musicologist in the era of National Socialism and the Federal Republic.

Life

The son of pastor Johannes Piersig attended the humanistic high school in Bremen and took part in the Freikorps battles against the Bremen Soviet Republic . In 1927 he completed his music studies in Berlin, Halle and at the Academic University of Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg with a doctorate from the University of Halle . After volunteering at the University of Heidelberg and at the Berlin Academy for Church and School Music , he was a teacher at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin from 1930 to 1934 . At the same time he was editor of the magazine for school music until 1934 . After joining the DNVP in January 1933 , he became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 . After working for the Bremen Senate , he worked as a freelance music journalist in 1936. He received a position in the National Socialist cultural bureaucracy in 1938 as managing director of the regional cultural administrator in the Gau Weser-Ems and was now also a member of the Reich Chamber of Culture . At the beginning of 1938 he became a member of the concert advisory board in Bremen as the "Kreissängerführer der NS-Kulturgemeinde" and as a "university teacher".

Piersig became a soldier in the Wehrmacht in February 1940 after the start of the Second World War . After taking part in the campaign in the West , he was employed as special leader Z in the propaganda department of the military commander in France from the end of 1940 and supervised and controlled French musical life, alongside the publishing censor Gerhard Heller . In July 1942, his and Heller's position was transferred to the special representative of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP) in the cultural department of the Paris embassy. Under Wilhelm Knothe , Piersig was still clerk for music, theater and the visual arts.

After the Allied invasion he did active military service in 1944 and was then a prisoner of war until 1946. Nothing is known about his denazification after the end of the war in the Federal Republic.

From 1949 he was a music critic for the Bremer Nachrichten and became a music teacher at the Bremen business school . In 1954 he became chairman of the music advisory board of the Northwest German Singers' Association.

Piersig's estate is in the Bremen State Archives .

Works

  • The organs of the Bremen city churches in the 17th and 18th centuries . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . tape 35 , 1935, pp. 379-425 ( online ).
  • Felix Oberborbeck on his 70th birthday. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel, Zurich, 1970. Published by the Westphalian Music Archive in Hagen. In the series: Contributions to Westphalian music history. No. 6, 1970
  • One hundred years of Praeger & Meier in Bremen [1864–1964]. A contribution to the music history of a German city. Praeger & Meier, Bremen 1964.
  • The rondo. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1961 (1931).
  • The introduction of the horn in art music and its use up to the death of Joh. Seb. Bach's. A contribution to the history of instrumentation. Niemeyer, Halle a. S. 1927 (Halle, Phil. Diss., 1927).
  • Fritz Piersig (Ed.): Reutterische and Jegerische Liedlein composed with four voices: All so the noble musica related. arranged as a pleasant pleasure in print; Nürmberg XLIX / M. Caspar Othmayr. G. Kallmeyer, Wolfenbüttel, 1928.
  • Newspaper review of the Triadic Ballet . In: Bremer Nachrichten . July 29, 1926.
  • Hans Joachim Moser, Fritz Piersig: Carmina: selected instrumental movements of the XVI century . Volume 53 of Nagels Musik-Archiv . Nagels Verlag, 1929

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .
  • Kathrin Engel: German cultural policy in occupied Paris 1940–1944: film and theater . Oldenbourg, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56739-X ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war the muses are not silent". The German Scientific Institutes in World War II . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-35357-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Sieb, The access of the NSDAP to the music. On the establishment of organizational structures for music work in the divisions of the party , Diss. Osnabrück 2007, p. 142 DNB urn: nbn: de: gbv: 700-2007091013 . At Sieb, the university teaching position is not questioned, so this function remains unclear.
  2. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 5268.
  3. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 5267.
personal data
SURNAME Piersig, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and cultural functionary under National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd December 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1978
Place of death Bremen