Hans Gahlenbeck

Hans Gahlenbeck (born September 27, 1896 in Rostock , † December 10, 1975 in Eisenach ) was a German conductor and general music director (GMD).

biography

Gahlenbeck was artistic director of the orchestral association of Berliner Musikfreunde from 1926 to 1928 . In 1928 he became the conductor and musical director of the Städtische Bühnen in Kiel . After Fritz Stein left as conductor of the Verein der Musikfreunde (Musikfreunde Kiel / VdM) and Kiel University Music Director, Gahlenbeck was his successor in 1933 as director of the VdM concerts and city music director and in 1934 as general music director, whereby the personal separation of operas and concerts was abolished could be. As expected, the concert programs during the Nazi era were “German”: a lot of Beethoven and Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss and Pfitzner. In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . In 1938 he was appointed GMD at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin in Mecklenburg . In 1939 he received the honorary title of Staatskapellmeister . He worked for the party's Mecklenburg Gau , and from around 1941 also as the Gau Commissioner for music matters .

After 1945 he continued to work as a conductor or GMD in Mecklenburg in Schwerin and in 1954/55 as GMD in Rostock at the North German Philharmonic Rostock . In 1955 Gahlenbeck accepted an appointment as GMD at the Thuringian State Theater Eisenach ; his successor was Gerhart Wiesenhütter . A performance of Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen prepared by Heinz Röttger in 1954 was the first cyclical performance of its kind in the GDR and he then conducted it as the new musical director. He was musical chief until 1967.

Honors

• Honorary member of the theater company at the Thuringia State Theater Eisenach
• 1966 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• Michael Buddrus : Mecklenburg in the Second World War. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-4000-1 .
• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

• Literature about Hans Gahlenbeck in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Neues Deutschland , September 15, 1966, p. 2