Heinz Drewes

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Richard Strauss (left), General Director Heinz Drewes (center) and Joseph Goebbels at the 1938 Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf.

Heinz Drewes (born October 24, 1903 in Gelsenkirchen ; † June 16, 1980 in Nuremberg ) was a German conductor and cultural functionary. From 1937 to 1944 he was head of Department X (Music) in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . The Reich Office for Music Arrangements , the Foreign Office for Music and the Office for Concerts were subordinate to him . At the same time he was one of two vice-presidents of the Reich Chamber of Culture .

Life

Studied with Heinz Tiessen . Joined the NSDAP in 1930. Drewes was Kapellmeister at the Landestheater Altenburg ( Thuringia ) and founded a local group of the Kampfbund for German culture. In 1932 he became general music director and a year later general director (1933–1937). In 1933 he received his doctorate in Cologne with a dissertation on the composer Maria Antonia Walpurgis Dr. phil. From 1937 to 1944 he headed the newly founded Department X for Music in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and was thus one of the most important functionaries for music policy during the Nazi era. 1937 Appointment as Reich Culture Senator . Drewes was jointly responsible for the “Degenerate Music” exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1938. There was a constant competitive relationship with the President of the Reich Music Chamber, Peter Raabe . In 1942 he became chairman of the newly founded German Jean Sibelius Society. Despite being in the UK, he volunteered for the war in 1944. After denazification, he lived in Nuremberg after 1945 and wrote music reviews for the Nürnberger Abendblatt .

Works

  • Heinz Drewes: Maria Antonia Walpurgis as a composer , (approved dissertation 1933, Cologne), Borna-Leipzig, 1934.

literature

  • Nina Okrassa: Peter Raabe. Conductor, music writer and President of the Reichsmusikkammer (1872-1945) , Böhlau Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-412-09304-1 ( Google Books )
  • Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 1237–1249.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , Fischer Taschenbuch Frankfurt am Main, 2nd (revised) edition 2007, p. 121.
  2. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 1237
personal data
SURNAME Drewes, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and cultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1980
Place of death Nuremberg