Heinrich Allmeroth

Heinrich Allmeroth (born March 9, 1901 in Knickhagen , Hofgeismar district , † October 18, 1961 in Dresden ) was a German opera singer (tenor), director and politician. He was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR

Life

After attending grammar school in Göttingen and Frankfurt, the teacher's son Heinrich Allmeroth studied economics and did his doctorate on the economic development of the Eschwege district since the 19th century. During his studies in 1921 he became a member of the Strasbourg fraternity Arminia , which was then based in Frankfurt and later moved to Tübingen. After completing his doctorate, he studied singing in Kassel and received engagements as first tenor at various theaters in Göttingen, Halle, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Darmstadt, Stuttgart and Leipzig. As early as 1931, Allmeroth was involved in a union and until 1933 he held the office of chairman of the Cooperative of German Stage Members at the Hessian State Theater in Darmstadt.

Grave of Heinrich Allmeroth in the urn grove Tolkewitz

After the end of the war, Allmeroth received an engagement at the Metropol-Theater in Berlin. In 1949 he first went to Leipzig as artistic director, but in the same year he moved to Rostock and remained there in the same position until 1952. He then received an offer from the German State Opera in Berlin, where he acted as deputy director until 1954. After that, Allmeroth went to the Dresden State Theater , where he then worked as general director.

The non-party Allmeroth became a member of the FDGB and the Kulturbund after the war , for which he took over the office of chairman in the Rostock district during his engagement in the port city from 1950 to 1952. At the same time, the FDGB won him over in 1950 to represent the union as a member of the People's Chamber. Allmeroth also represented the FDGB in the People's Chamber in the second electoral period from 1954 to 1958. In 1953 he was elected honorary chairman of the central board of the art union in the FDGB and thus also became a member of the union's national board. He held both offices until 1959. In his function as Dresden General Director, Allmeroth was a member of the artistic and scientific advisory board at the Ministry of Culture and was a member of the SED district leadership in Dresden.

Allmeroth died in Dresden in 1961 and was buried in the Tolkewitz urn grove .

His stage repertoire included a. the following roles: "Tamino" in the Magic Flute , "Edgar" in Vampyr by Heinrich Marschner, "Lyonel" in Flotow's Martha , "Count Almaviva" in the Barbier of Seville by Rossini, "Wilhelm Meister" in Mignon by A. Thomas, "Alfredo "In La Traviata ," Alvaro "in La forza del destino and the eponymous hero in Don Carlos by Verdi," Rodolfo "in Puccini's La Bohème ," Pinkerton "in Madame Butterfly and" Palestrina "in the opera of the same name by Hans Pfitzner .

Awards

• Medal of the Moscow Great Theater
• 1954 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1955 Fritz Heckert Medal
• 1961 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

Fonts

• The economic development of the Eschwege district since the last century . Dissertation, 1926 as microfilm here
• The tasks of the art union to increase the socialist awareness of the members in the struggle for a socialist culture. Presentation at the 9th central board meeting of the art union on 22. u. May 23, 1958 in Berlin. Verlag Tribüne, Berlin-Treptow 1958.

literature

• Handbook of the People's Chamber (2nd electoral period) Kongress-Verlag Berlin 1957.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 .
• Christian Krause:  Allmeroth, Heinrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 12-13.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Allmeroth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Allmeroth at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Heinrich Allmeroth in the FDGB Lexicon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 7.
2. ↑ Program announcement of the Württemberg State Theaters in Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.