Helmut Tramnitz

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Helmut Paulus Tramnitz (born May 7, 1917 in Dresden ; † December 31, 2007 in Gerolstein ) was a German musicologist and organist.

life and work

Tramnitz, son of the businessman Paul Tramnitz and his wife Doris Wetzel, received an early musical education as a choirboy of the Dresden Kreuzchor and a student of the Kreuzgymnasium . Tramnitz studied organ at the State Orchestra and Music Academy in his hometown and the Berlin Academy for School and Church Music . In 1937 he became organist and cantor in Reichenau , today's Poland, but in 1940 he was drafted into military service. After four years as a lecturer at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg and cantor at the Heidelberg Heiliggeistkirche , Tramnitz came in 1950 as organist and conductor at the Hamburg main church St. Petri , where he founded, among other things, today's Hamburg Bach Choir , at that time "Kantorei St. Petri".

In 1959, Helmut Tramnitz was appointed professor for organ playing and head of the department for church music at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold , his retirement took place in 1982. In addition to his teaching activities, he was also organist and choirmaster at the old town Nicolaikirche in Bielefeld , later then at the Detmold market church. An extensive concert activity, recordings and radio recordings made Tramnitz not only known in Germany but also internationally.

On November 27, 1977, the founder of the High Church Apostolate St. Ansgar Karl August Hahne consecrated him as bishop in the Protestant Bleck Church in Gelsenkirchen with the participation of Helmut Echternach . He is thus in succession to Scipione Rebiba and Arnold Harris Mathew . From 1982 to 1985 Tramnitz headed the High Church Apostolate St. Ansgar . His successor was Karsten Reinhard Bürgener.

Helmut Tramnitz last lived in a Gerolstein retirement home. His wife Edeltraut Richter, with whom he had been married since 1944 and had three children, died in 2000.

His children: Christina Müller-Geinitz (née Tramnitz), Wolfgang Tramnitz and Michael Tramnitz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Succession list ( Memento from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Tramnitz, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tramnitz, Helmut Paulus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2007
Place of death Gerolstein