Helmut Wobisch

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Helmut Wobisch (born October 25, 1912 in Vienna ; † February 20, 1980 there ) was an Austrian musician and cultural manager.

Life

Helmut Wobisch studied philosophy and chemistry at the University of Vienna , at the same time he attended the Vienna Music Academy . In 1936 the trumpeter became a stage musician at the Vienna State Opera .

Wobisch had since 1 May 1933 (the first illegal) member of the NSDAP ( member number 1529268), had on July plot participated in 1934 and had since November 1934 a member of the SS and brought it to Unterscharführer .

After the " connection " of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 Wobisch the title was a chamber musician awarded. In 1939 Wobisch became a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and promoted from incidental music to the State Opera Orchestra. During the time of National Socialism he was head of the wind instruments training of the Hitler Youth in the Vienna area. The Nazi authorities listed him as a "well-informed" informant (spy) of the SD .

After the war, Wobisch was dismissed from the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera due to the prohibition law . In 1950 he was reinstated. From 1954 to 1968 the solo trumpeter was managing director of the Vienna Philharmonic. From 1953 he held a teaching position at the Vienna Music Academy. In 1958 he was given the title of "Professor". In 1967 Wobisch received the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

The archives of the Vienna Philharmonic clearly show Wobisch's involvement in the Nazi regime, which is why the Villach City Council will revoke the honorary ring award to Wobisch on July 31, 2013 (from May 1979). The Wobisch streets are also to be renamed.

Helmut Wobisch can be heard as solo trumpeter on various recordings, including with the Zagreb soloists .

In 1969, Wobisch founded the Carinthian Summer in Ossiach together with Jakob Stingl . Wobisch was director of the festival until his death.

Schirach affair

The Nazi politician Baldur von Schirach , convicted in Nuremberg in 1946 , was serving as Reich Governor and Gauleiter in Vienna when the Vienna Philharmonic, with his help, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1942. At his instigation, the musicians were released from military service. Schirach then received the orchestra's ring of honor; the street between the Vienna State Opera and the Hotel Sacher was named Philharmonikerstraße.

After Baldur von Schirach's release from prison in 1966, which he spent in the Spandau war crimes prison, Wobisch most likely brought a duplicate of the ring of honor awarded to him in 1942; It remains to be seen whether this was an unofficial private mission by Wobisch or a discreet decision by the orchestra association. The second handover of the ring was revealed by the bearer anonymizing statements by a son of Schirach; Historians then put together evidence that strongly referred to Wobisch.

literature

  • Clemens Hellsberg, Democracy of Kings. The history of the Vienna Philharmonic, Zurich 1992, p. 514
  • Andreas Lang (Ed.): Victims, perpetrators, spectators. 70 years later. The Vienna State Opera and the “Anschluss” in 1938 . Edition Wiener Staatsoper II, Vienna 2008 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Vienna State Opera , March 10 - June 30, 2008).
  • Oliver Rathkolb : Faithful to the leader and God blessed. Artist elites in the Third Reich , ÖBV, Vienna 1991, p. 19 and p. 131f.
  • Uwe Harten : Helmut Wobisch. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . Kiel 2004, CD-ROM Lexicon, p. 7874.
  2. ↑ Oliver Rathkolb: Führertreu and Gottbegnadet , 1991, p. 131
  3. ↑ Carinthian Summer: The Next Culture Shock ( Memento of August 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Kleine Zeitung.
  4. ↑ Philharmonics face the Nazi past: “Long due” , from ORF , accessed on March 10, 2013
  5. ↑ See Vienna Philharmonic and the orchestra's website
personal data
SURNAME Wobisch, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1980
Place of death Vienna