Hans Otto Jung

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Hans Otto Jung (born September 17, 1920 in Lorch ; † April 22, 2009 in Rüdesheim am Rhein ) was a German entrepreneur, jazz musician and patron .

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Jung grew up in a musical family; his father regularly organized chamber music concerts at home in Rüdesheim. Musicians and composers like Paul Hindemith went in and out there; The latter, in order to congratulate his parents on Jung's birth, sent them a greeting card with several bars of a self-composed ragtime , which was entitled Young Lorch Fellow. Ragtime. Jung learned piano from 1925, partly taught by Emma Lübbecke-Job , and later violin and viola, and appeared in public for the first time in 1935. As a student of social sciences, he co-founded and pianist the Frankfurt Hotclub Combo in 1941 , in which he performed with Carlo Bohländer , Emil Mangelsdorff , Hans Podehl and Charly Petry. In 1943 he learned to play the double bass as an autodidact, and then from 1945 to 1948 he played as a bassist in the Hotclub Sextet. In 1946/47 he had his own radio show on Hessischer Rundfunk , where he played as a solo pianist in the style of Teddy Wilson . After completing his doctorate in business administration on “Die Handelsspanne ”, he took over the family's winery. Despite concentrating on managing the winery, which specialized in the production of non-alcoholic wine and brandy, he often attended jazz and chamber music concerts in the Rhine-Main area. He also invited musicians (especially pianists) to Boosenburg Castle to play music together on his two Steinway grand pianos. As a lover and promoter of jazz and classical music, he headed the Wiesbaden Association of Artists and Art Friends from 1976 ; then he was one of the members of the board of trustees of the Rheingau Music Festival and one of the region's cultural sponsors.

He did not recover from a fall that he suffered in the winter of 2008/2009 while visiting a concert by his friend Menahem Pressler in Hamburg. His jazz collection is located in the Darmstadt Jazz Institute .

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  1. ↑ Michael Kater Daring Game - Jazz in National Socialism , Cologne 1995, pp. 149ff.
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SURNAME Jung, Hans Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, jazz musician and patron
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorch
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2009
Place of death Rudesheim am Rhein