Gau Committee for Folk Music in the Upper Danube Gau
In the course of the National Socialist reorganization of associations in Austria from 1938, the Austrian folk song company was dissolved. In Upper Austria it went up in the Gau Committee for Folk Music in the Gau Oberdonau . Hans Commenda , the previous trustee of the folk song company in Upper Austria, was replaced by the National Socialists.
In 1939 Hermann Derschmidt became head of the archive of the Gau Committee for Folk Music in the Reichsgau Upper Danube , and later he took over the overall management of this Gau Committee.
This district committee was directly subordinate to the cultural district self-administration in Upper Danube and was also financed by the district. The corresponding guidelines for Gau archives were drawn up by the State Institute for German Music Research , Department II - Folk Music in Berlin.
In technical terms, the Gau Committee was subordinate to this institute for music research in Berlin, whose director was Alfred Quellmalz .
In addition to the continuation of the collecting activities by the committee members, further training courses were offered and appropriate material made available for Nazi youth organizations such as Hitler Youth (HJ), Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) or German Youth (DJ).
In 1946, in Upper Austria, again under the direction of Hans Commenda, the “Austrian Folksong Company” was re-established, from which the Upper Austrian Folksong Company later emerged.
Individual evidence
- ↑ compare: Arnold Blöchl: Collecting, preserving, researching, cultivating (last part). Folk music collection and folk music research in Upper Austria. In: quarter time. No. 4/2005, p. 9.4.